The Dark Knight goes over the top

Rating: 6/10 (18 August 2008)

What is appealing about Nolan's take on the mythic Batman character is the sense of realism he's giving it. After all, Batman is just an ordinary human being... with lots of cash and kick ass martial arts skills. But here's where the movie(or should I say movies, as I got the same feeling with Batman Begins) goes wrong. If you wanna sell these characters as being living breathing real characters, you gotta go all the way. On both movies I couldn't understand how a man of justice who's suppose to protect the innocent would bring out his Batmobile (or in Dark Knight's case, the bike) and run all over everyone's cars, blow away everything in his path, careless as hell. Who cares if everyone in my way dies ! As long as I get a grip on that Jocker guy ! And then of course comes those radical spin moves and dodging the truck using grip wires to trip him over. Or blocking a rocket out of the air. The guy may have got all the martial art training in the world, there is just no way he could have pulled these moves. I doubt he could have practice those anywhere in the batcave with Alfred.
The other thing that was pointed out about this Dark Knight is the lenght of the film. Well I didn't mind much the lenght, it's the plot ... and subplots and all this overwhelming amount of evil conspiracies that the Jocker sets up ! This is amazing ! I mean the guy ends up doing more machiavelic bombing than the whole Al-Queda squad ever did in their lives ! It is set up that the Jocker works mostly alone, and recruits retards as his followers. Yet he ends up blowing everything in Gotham including a whole god damn hospital to the ground ! Now wait a freakin' second. If there is something we learned about 9/11 is that a building cannot fall this easy without precise and professional set up of specific specialized explosives material. Never the less, I had a great laugh with Ledger's performance with the way he sets-off the bombs. Great moment.
Which brings me to the greatest part of this movie. The Jocker. Plain awesome.
On the other hand we barely get to see the Batman do anything other than using fancy gizmos to fight his villains. Too bad there wasn't more good ol' fist fights and more of Bruce Wayne doing his thing when the Jocker infiltrates Dent's party.
Well that's about all I have to say about that. LOL