The Dark Night - this movie will be hard to top

Rating: 10/10 (2 August 2008)

I was entranced by this film and all the actors/characters...it is truly a masterpiece. I was very impressed by Christian Bale's batman; he really made batman a "real" man with deep levels of personality and conflicts of his own, and especially since he was not perfect as depicted in other batman films. It does not hurt that he is super good-looking either. Now for Heath Ledger as the Joker...yikes, he was very disturbing, because not only is he viciously evil, but he enjoys it....the joker is twisted beyond repair and severely clever using his powers to warp people into following his lead and become evil themselves before they can realize it. The joker unnerved me tremendously - I was more afraid of him than that chainsaw guy, because he was so fearless himself there would be no way to predict his next move. Heath Ledger was a pretty fearless actor too in order to open himself up to such a level of evil...to give such control over to it....I've never seen an actor "go that far" yet. All in all the story is mesmerizing and I would see it again & again as there are plenty of clues to the nature of everyday humans reflecting back at us. One of my favorite lines is when batman says "you were so good, that he needed to know if you could fall". It hit me like a ton of bricks, because sometimes the best of people are attacked by evil so much that they wonder why, and I got it - evil only focuses on the good in order to destroy it. I have to see the movie again in order to get more information and it seems there is something for everyone to learn here - you have to see it yourself. I loved it for many reasons.