The Dark Knight (2008)
Country: US
Technical: col/1.44:1 152m
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Eric Roberts
Synopsis:
The Joker arrives in Gotham and bullies the criminal underworld into letting him operate in the city, then begins a ruthless series of killings in an attempt to draw Batman out from the shadows to identify himself. At the same time an honest and ambitious new D.A. declares open war on crime and corruption and receives the wholehearted support of Bruce Wayne. The stage is set for a duel of wits in which the Joker always seems one step ahead of the good guys and Batman must re-evaluate his role as vigilante.
Review:
Comic book hero movies don't come much better than this, or much darker. Batman's husky delivery and ability to fly off tall buildings at times and not at others are faintly absurd, the action is edited so fast that you need to be a video game geek to follow what is going on in the fights and car chases, but at the same time it is all very compellingly done, with production resources set lavishly at the disposal of the young director (the film more than recouped its cost) and a performance from Ledger that eclipses Nicholson's own mannered and perhaps too familiar essay in madness twenty years earlier.
Country: US
Technical: col/1.44:1 152m
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Eric Roberts
Synopsis:
The Joker arrives in Gotham and bullies the criminal underworld into letting him operate in the city, then begins a ruthless series of killings in an attempt to draw Batman out from the shadows to identify himself. At the same time an honest and ambitious new D.A. declares open war on crime and corruption and receives the wholehearted support of Bruce Wayne. The stage is set for a duel of wits in which the Joker always seems one step ahead of the good guys and Batman must re-evaluate his role as vigilante.
Review:
Comic book hero movies don't come much better than this, or much darker. Batman's husky delivery and ability to fly off tall buildings at times and not at others are faintly absurd, the action is edited so fast that you need to be a video game geek to follow what is going on in the fights and car chases, but at the same time it is all very compellingly done, with production resources set lavishly at the disposal of the young director (the film more than recouped its cost) and a performance from Ledger that eclipses Nicholson's own mannered and perhaps too familiar essay in madness twenty years earlier.
Country: US
Technical: col/1.44:1 152m
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Eric Roberts
Synopsis:
The Joker arrives in Gotham and bullies the criminal underworld into letting him operate in the city, then begins a ruthless series of killings in an attempt to draw Batman out from the shadows to identify himself. At the same time an honest and ambitious new D.A. declares open war on crime and corruption and receives the wholehearted support of Bruce Wayne. The stage is set for a duel of wits in which the Joker always seems one step ahead of the good guys and Batman must re-evaluate his role as vigilante.
Review:
Comic book hero movies don't come much better than this, or much darker. Batman's husky delivery and ability to fly off tall buildings at times and not at others are faintly absurd, the action is edited so fast that you need to be a video game geek to follow what is going on in the fights and car chases, but at the same time it is all very compellingly done, with production resources set lavishly at the disposal of the young director (the film more than recouped its cost) and a performance from Ledger that eclipses Nicholson's own mannered and perhaps too familiar essay in madness twenty years earlier.