Well, Hello Beautiful !!!

Rating: 9/10 (29 July 2008)

Consider the package: a good plot, the soundtrack, the background score, the superhero mystery (even though you know who Batman is), the love which a superhero can't fully afford to be in, a maniacal villain, a determined man, an honest cop, the stunning Batmobile, the even more stunning Batpod, amazing direction and great special effects!!! Doesn't lack much does it now? Having said that, this is not a superhero movie. But then, Batman was never a superhero, he is a regular guy without superpowers, but tons of money that can buy almost anything. He is mortal. He owns a corporation that is on the frontier of weapons research and he has the money to use it for his vigilante encounters. Finally, a haunting past, which makes him a restless insomniac and fuels his crime-fighting. Everything falls in place. He is a guy who can do it, wants to do it, and often questions his own moralities. He needn't be Batman, he is a guy who can risk everything, and he does. Perhaps that why we like him so much.
Bale delivers again and is soaring in the list of my favorite actors. Might seem strange, but i like his appearances in the movie as Bruce Wayne and not Batman. Bruce Wayne's quips seem delivered best when they come from Bale.
Ledger will be remembered for this role as the joker. He makes the Joker jump out of the comic book and makes him a really sick criminal. He is as unpredictable and dangerous as he is funny. "I'm a dog chasing cars. I wouldn't know what to do if I caught one." I wont forget that. Ledgers loss has deprived me of the joker i like so much now.
Harvey looks good (you know what i mean) and the skepticism i had about Aaron before watching the movie has disappeared now.
Nolan's 'The Dark Knight' and 'Batman Begins' succeed in ripping apart the comic book image and bring Batman so close to us that we feel touched. We see a guy who cant come to terms with his pretended self. He wants to but cant afford love. He carries the burden of his parents death, but he cant kill, he is as human as any superhero could get.
I think with this movie, Batman was gone way ahead of Spiderman and Superman or any other superhero, who cant be as real as Batman ever. This movie will stay in my memory for a long time, perhaps till the dark knight strikes again.