Not Just a Game of Chance

Rating: 10/10 (17 August 2016)

Just like Harvey Dent, played by Aaron Eckhart, Christopher Nolan didn't leave the creation of this film to a game of chance. Instead, he made his own luck and his fingerprints are all over this masterpiece. Besides being the best comic book movie to date, this is one of the greatest movies all all-time in any genre.
I mentioned Aaron Eckhart, who plays the admirable White Knight D.A. of Gotham. His girlfriend Rachel, this time played a bit more convincingly by Maggie Gyllenhaal, graces the screens and represents Bruce Wayne's lost hope for a normal life and his seemingly eternal damnation to be the Batman. The beauty of the Batman character in this movie is that Bruce is both reluctant to play the character but consumed by his monstrosity at the same time. These characters, along with Gary Oldman's Lt. Gordon form the main group of protagonists, and Oldman steals the screen at points with a few pleasant surprises.
This time, Batman must stop the Joker, his main nemesis in the comics. To say the Joker's plain is plainly sick is not entirely accurate, because he really doesn't have a plan. Instead, he pushes the right buttons to demonstrate how chaotic life really is and how he is no different from anyone else, including Batman.
As the movie progresses, it becomes clear that Joker's fingerprints are all over every event and that he adapts to any situation in order to bring Gotham to its knees, and his plan has elements of the famous Killing Joke comic. Credit Heath Ledger who plays the most convincing and deeply developed villain in movie history perhaps, even though we ironically know very little about him personally.
In the end, this rather long film races by with all sorts of surprises as the Joker tries to put the joke on us. The Dark Knight gets 4 out of 4 gag guns.