One of the best movies I’ve seen in absolute ages The Dark Knight fully deserves all the rave reviews and hype its gotten and also, for once, I think justifies all that money being raked in at the box office. The movie is dark, its thrilling, and its full of action, drama and tragedy plenty. Not to mention the unexpected humour, not only from the utterly brilliant Heath Ledger, but actually from many cast members.

What I liked best about this Christopher Nolan production is that this is a super-hero franchise which is really now starting to have a reputation for decent story-telling. The movie has so many layers of depth that you really have to keep switched on during the movie. Character development is fantastic so you can sympathise and empathise will all characters.

In The Dark Knight, Batman is finally seeming to have an impact on the crime in Gotham City. All the drug lords are running for cover and struggling to find a way to continue to run their illicit operations. New D.A Harvey Dent, who is seemingly incorruptible, puts even more of a squeeze on the crims and they nearly have nowhere to run. Then who comes on to the scene – the Joker. The Joker is absolutely terrifying in his madness (and his zest to destroy Batman.) Though you can tell he is way out of his mind its also clear he is highly intellectual and for the most part seems to run rings around Batman. Yes Batman overcomes most of the problems but in almost every situation but one The Joker is just that one step ahead of him. This seems quite a simplified plot but within this are many layers of intricacy. A very involving story.

Performance-wise the cast were generally quite good in the film. However I’m afraid that all of them were outshone by Heath Ledger. Heath Ledger was fan-bloody-tastic. I couldn’t even begin to describe just how perfect a performance he delivers in this movie. What a waste that he is now gone!

The Dark Knight is a must watch. You won’t regret it.

In fact, the movie was so good that even Mr Mouse came out to see it! However, his attendance caused a bit of upset to Julian and Sandra last night (distracting them for at least the last 20 minutes of the movie!) Check out the letter he wrote above!! 🙂