Oh my.......

Rating: 8/10 (19 July 2008)

I can't remember this feeling of dread after leaving a movie theater since SE7EN and it's not that I don't think this is a fantastic movie, it's just that as much as I did read how intense it was before seeing it, I now realize I simply had no idea what I was about to go through. After a terrific chase scene involving several truck's and the Bat-cycle (or however you want to call it) I started to think perhaps we were at the end of the movie, little did I know the entirety of Act III was still ahead of us and with it the floor was about to be taken from under our feet again and again. When I saw the Joker coming out of a Hospital, dressed like a nurse and casually blowing it up I couldn't believe we were talking about a PG-13 movie (I guess we're way past post-9/11 sensibilities by now). Maybe repeated future viewings on DVD will soften the impact of this movie but if you haven't seen it, just know there are films "not for children" and there is THE DARK KNIGHT, the most intense film I've seen in years.