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The Dark Knight Movie Review

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Wuh, whuh, wow. This movie is... wow. It's good. It's great. It may be the best Batman movie ever. The movie is directed by Christopher Nolan who twists this typical superhero movie into an extravaganza that cannot be described easily. The movie is dark, creepy, scary, and... it's good!

The performances are great. Christian Bale does a great job and the relationship between Batman and the Joker is exactly what it should be. Yes, Heath Ledger deserves an award for his work. He did an amazing job, he was crazy, creepy, scary, demented, nuts. Who's the best Joker? Nicholson and Ledger are two very different Jokers, one crazy, one just plain sadistic. You can't fairly compare them. In my opinion, I like this version of the Joker more, but like I said, they're totally different.

The movie spends a nearly equal amount of time with Batman and the Joker, so neither one is favored; though I have to admit, Ledger steals the show with his performance.

Also, the Joker lives up to his name. In the movie, he sets up traps, but always ends them with an unexpected surprise. It's great. Batman has a lot more new gadgets including a Bat motorcycle that comes out of the Batmobile.

The movie stays true to Batman in the fact that it's trying to do the Star Wars thing, work your way up to where the first story began. Most of it matches up, but Harvey Dent, who's supposed to become Two Face when dropped in a pool of acid, burns his face with fire instead.

The movie is very long, over two and a half hours. Some of the scenes seem like they could've been shortened, but the movie is interesting throughout, and doesn't once get boring. The ending doesn't make too much sense, but that's up to you to decide. (I honestly think one last scene was supposed to be filmed, but Ledger was unable to film it before he passed. Then again, it could just be that I only saw this movie once, and maybe was too caught up in the movie.)

In conclusion, I loved this movie. In my opinion, it's the best Batman in decades, maybe ever. This movie will be either loved or hated. I go for the first opinion, I give it a 10 out of 10.
By: Zomba Tatamata
Published: 07/26/08


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11 Posted Comments:

@ 7:25 pm 08/19/08 by R. Elizabeth C. Kitchen
My aunt and cousins saw this movie the day it came out and are still raving. Nice job on this article. Check mine out if you have time.
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@ 4:58 pm 08/21/08 by Nax05
Nice article, I've heard plenty on this movie. I heard The Joker really is the only reason it was so good though. Apparently batman's growling makes him a bit too cheesy.
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@ 11:46 am 08/23/08 by Zomba Tatamata
Thanks guys.
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Good Movie

@ 11:19 pm 08/24/08 by niksan
I watched the movie this weekend and found it very good. I have always liked Batman, right from the 'read comics' days. Also, with every movie the Batman on screen is improving. He is improving in terms of the looks, his gadgets, technology etc and this makes watching him even better!

I also liked the special effects these moves use.
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@ 2:57 am 08/27/08 by Xiaoyu Yang
I've never seen it. But after reading your article I think I'm gonna watch it. You described it so lively
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@ 9:11 am 08/27/08 by K.F. Lynn
i loved the dark knight. not only was it full of action and really easy to get into, but the other people there made it excited; people dressed up and showed up hours early - and i didn't even see it until a week later. i love ledger, he did an amazing job and i hope they give him a posthumous oscar, that performance was certainly worthy of one!
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@ 2:17 pm 08/31/08 by C.D. Crowder
I really wasn't expecting too much from this movie. I was afraid it was all hype over Heath Ledger, but I was extremely surprised. This was a great movie and has me looking forward to the next one :)
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@ 1:09 am 09/05/08 by parth
Joker's dialogues were terrific as well as the twists he fabricated
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@ 4:15 pm 09/06/08 by trentsketch
I know people loved this film. I even understand why people love this film. I just thought it had major flaws. Only one character showed any growth throughout the film, which was impossible to avoid in the transformation from Harvey Dent to Two-Face. Heath Ledger did amazing work considering how little variety he had to work with. I'm not going to look it up now, but on another site I analyzed how every single Joker scene follows the exact same pattern of action.

I liked it, but I didn't love it like seemingly everyone else. I could only go as high as 7/10.
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Rocking Movie

@ 1:57 am 09/22/08 by valiantdude
The Dark Knight is seriously a great movie of hollywood. The movie is still running in most of the theaters. Hope to see movie in Oscars.
Nice article Zomba
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@ 8:44 am 10/11/08 by Mr. U
A good review for an excellent movie. It was waaaay darker than the first one, but I think it was pretty good. There were a couple missteps (Joker & Two Face in the same film?) but overall it wasn't bad.
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