The dawn of the Comic Villain

Rating: 10/10 (23 January 2012)

The Dark Knight was and still is nothing short of a masterpiece and a mind bending acting demonstration. The plot, special effects, acting, choreography, and the ability to entice a viewer into the movie itself, puts it in it's own category of genius. Heath Ledger is THE MOVIE. A perfect example of an actor who put on his best final performance, never coming out of character and before you know it; is dead. The Box Office original I saw 5 times. It was not that he died before the movie blew the box office up that made it do unique to me. Lots of people watched only because the actor was dead. That simple minded persona of the character was routed by him winning an Oscar and not being there to even accept it. Christian Bale did a great job, although I will state that the difference in his voice as Bruce Wayne and Batman was a little bit too dramatic. It is a comic movie though, so that makes it a minor mostly unnoticed issue. The greater picture is that The Joker came forth as not just someone who was funny, but pure evil, making the movie more realistic than its predecessor. This is not to take away from Jack Nicholson, as his resume' needs no drawn illustration, since he was the leading actor in only two movies to sweep every category of the Academy Awards ( The second being, The Silence of the Lambs ). Words cannot reiterate the acting that shook the world in The Dark Knight.