Best. Magic Trick. Ever.

Rating: 10/10 (18 July 2008)

If you've seen the film yet. you'll understand. My favorite scene aside this movie is simply amazing; great action, solid performances from everybody and Oscar worthy direction brought to us by Chris Nolan. I'll try and not just talk about Heath Ledger - I'll just say I respect him the same way I do Robert Di Nero and Al Pacino and he deserves his posthumous Oscar. OK, Katie Holmes dropped out. Great! They replaced her with a real actress, Maggie Gyllenhaal who earns her pay as Rachel Dawes. Gary Oldman, a great actor who finally gets to play a good guy. Aaron Eckhart is a man I always liked in his movies and steals his non-Joker scenes as the enigmatic "White Knight" of Gotham, Harvey Dent.
There is practically non-stop action. This movie is very loud and very violent and it creates the perfect sense of anarchy and chaos. The Joker is a very menacing villain and the citizens of Gotham are in constant danger from him. Batman has to fight hard to save the people in the Joker's way and he doesn't always succeed.
All in all The Dark Knight is never boring, totally engaging and without a doubt the best superhero movie I've seen in a while. And the people in my theater applauded at the end, during my favorite magic trick scene and when Batman does something totally awesome with a truck (I won't ruin it) so what's that tell you?