A brief evaluation

Rating: 9/10 (18 March 2020)

The Dark Knight, arguably the moodiest and most adult superhero motion picture ever to reach the screen,illustrates this lesson in ways that are startling and painful. This is a tough, uncompromising motion picture - one that defies the common notions of what is expected from a "superhero" film. While there are plenty of action sequences and instances of derring-do, The Dark Knight's subtext has a tragic underpinning that would intrigue Shakespeare or the Greeks. It's about power and impotence, sanity and madness,image and reality,selfishness and sacrifice,and - yes - consequences.