Why So Serious?

Rating: 10/10 (19 July 2008)

With such big hype on this movie, I am afraid that this movie will disappoint me but luckily it didn't. For me, the movie is a very well rounded movie in which it has everything it in...From Romance, to action scene, Inner conflicts, philosophies in life. I think it is nicely packaged into one movie. The Dark Knight isn't just a movie of Good vs. Evil, it goes more deeper than that. The storyline is very good. The development of the character especially that of Harvey Dent / Two-face is very good. At the end of the movie, I can say that I believe in Harvey Dent.
Performances are very good as expected. Ledger didn't disappoint the people of his stellar performance. For me, I didn't really saw Heath Ledger in the movie. What I saw is a lunatic criminal named Joker causing terror to the Gotham City. Joker caught my attention because of his very terrifying performance, you never know what will happen next when he is around. Christian Bale does wonderful job for the Batman, and the portrayal of his inner conflict is nicely done. I am quite impressed on Aaron Eckhart's performance as Harvey Dent. Harvey Dent character really gave me a very good and lasting impression. I like how they develop the Harvey Dent character. Other A List cast did very well on their part as well.
*Dunno if this is considered a spoiler... But one small criticism that I had on this film is the part near the ending. Somehow I felt that somehow things were a bit rushed and forced to make it that way...I felt that they could have put it in the next Batman film. But I think the ending was quite good and well done.
So overall, the movie is not affected and is still very good. It want it 9.5/10 but since no 9.5, then round-off to 10/10. The Dark Knight didn't disappoint me despite of TOO MANY HYPES. It lived up to the expectation which is really rare in a movie after the bar is raised too high because of hype.