Tribute to the perfect movie

Rating: 10/10 (23 July 2008)

I have waited something like 2 years for this movie. I loved the first one and had high, very very high, expectations for this movie. The expectations were surpassed in every single aspect.
Let me start by saying that this is a true visual masterpiece. Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Mozart wrote his 25th. So I have to think in those kind of terms to try and describe how great this movie looks. Starting with the Joker. He looks great. Not quite what we were used to, but perhaps that is what makes it intriguing, scary and always fascinating to watch. The city of Gotham looks great. It makes it so very believable that it is actually a real city. It looks bright at day, dark at night; sad when it should look sad, dark when it should look dark. Everything fits perfectly about the town. The new gadgets (new suit, new motorcycle, the underground cave) have an awesome look to it without it looking geeky or weird. Once again everything fits perfectly, as it should with this perfect movie.
The acting is incredible. Michael Caine plays Alfred as the always humble but wise butler of batman. Except in this movie he is not a butler. Or an assistant of anything like that. He is more like an wise man who batman can always count on when he is feeling insecure or misplaced. Christian Bale did a great job being batman. In the last movie he had the leading role and did this brilliant. In this movie he is at least equal to that, and from my opinion (during the difficult scenes he mastered perfect) even better. Maggie Gyllenhaal is always cute, smart and sexy. So it was wise choosing her to play Rachel Dawes. She actually did this a lot better than (the a bit boring and shallow) Katie Holmes. And now I come to the thing that makes this movie a masterpiece in a trillion ways: Heath Ledger. He was always known for putting his heart and his soul in every role he played. This movie proves that. He ended his acting career with (here it comes, the big one) the greatest acting performance anyone has ever made in the film history, and every role in the future that will be equal, or better, is inspired by Heath Ledger, and by this role in particular. I cried because this role touched me like no role anyone ever played ever had. I was shaking because his performance was so horrifying, so creepy, and so incredibly believable. He mastered and ruled every scene he was in. The voice was perfect, the choreography and the way he moved and talked, was magnificent. He makes Jack Nicholsons role of the Joker look shallow. Ledger was superb. He was great. May he rest in peace. Aaron Eckhart was great. He played very convincing and the way he played the good Harvey Dent and the Bad Two face without playing an entirely diffirent character, was impressive. Great job. Ervery actor was superb: Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman, Nestor Carbonell and Anthony Michael Hall. They all were magnificent. But the thing I noticed is Eric Roberts. And the way he actually played a decent movie. Sorry for his fans, but normally I can't stand this guy. He is annoying, looks (misplaced) arrogant in every character he plays and has never been more than an average actor. A bit below average actually. However, in this movie he was pretty cool. The one movie where every actor outstands him or herself, he does too. Thank god because it would be a shame if he screwed up this movie.
Finally, the plot was nice too. Oh nice, what am I saying, it was beautiful. It carried the movie from the first minute to the last. The feel in this movie was perfect and Christopher Nolan can be known as one of the best directors of all time. Beyond Hitchcock, Tim Burton, Francis Ford Coppola and many others. He could have probably make this movie last about 5 hours. Hell, I still would have loved it. The way the movie begins, the way everything fits like a puzzle, and (this I think is the best twist in movie history) the way you think it is over (The Joker is behind bars, right?) and suddenly it lasts another hour.
Practically everyone talks about this as the best comic movie ever. Or: the best movie of 2008. So now let me redefine that: This is the best movie of all time. It is perfect. There is nothing that has touched this and nothing else will, for ages. This is the best movie in the world. Period.