The Dark Knight- Movie Review!
Movie- The Dark Knight
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast-Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman
A masterpiece!! If I had to put this into one word. This movie of Christopher Nolan, is a must watch for everyone even if he is not a cinema guy. One of the most awaited movie worldwide after tragic death of Heath Ledger to an accidental prescription-drug overdose in January hit news worldwide and curiousity with sympathy factor was enough to make this movie very hot sellable news. With worldwide heavy expectations and curiosity, it was under heavy pressure to cope with this expectation level but Christopher Nolan comes up with such a splendid work that it exceeded the expections of everyone included critics. Christopher Nolan’s film is a wonderful work of art that will leave you staggering from the theatre, stunned by its scope and complexity. It is much better movie than its predecessor Batman Begins in every aspect.
Jonathan Nolan along with his director brother Christopher Nolan presents a unique mix of comedy and philosophy this time for viewers.
In first hour story revolves around Batman’s inner struggle about the need of his existence as Batman. Batman finds hard to find reason for his continuation with his role of Batman as Gotham attorney Harvey Dent (aaron eckhart) has taken the battle against organised crime in his hand with help from Lt Gordon (Gary Oldman).
Amidst temptation of returning to normal life with Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal) and leaving crime on hands of administration, movie present typical concept of existence crisis of super-heroes.
but not for long as super villain or not so super but super hillarious with witty one liners guru arrives on the scene with fear and terror strikes the nerves of the city.
This joker isn’t that funny as he might appear so by his appearnce. He enjoys the destruction of Gotham with great intensity with some chinks of humor which does nothing but sends fear to spines of viewers. His intentions are to create chaos in the city and then enjoy watching the fear factor, destruction and terror-scarred faces.Some of cleverly used sarcastic comments like “you complete me” from Jerry Maguire of Tom Cruise trickles viewers. Christopher has made the role of the joker so powerful that it is no longer a movie of Batman alone and the question of good’s superiority over evil seem to evacuate minds when Heath Ledger stealing the show most often.
Wally Pfister’s cinematography scores as the scenes filmed are marvellous and leave the viewer with his finger under teeth with amazement.
Batman (Christian Bale) is consistent with his mystic performance which is again impressive. Return of Batman’s butler Alfred (Michael Caine) and Gadget master (Morgan Freeman) adds color to the movie.
Eckhart surprises in his role after his impressive performance in Thank You For Smoking and seeps into his role of law and order person which changes color in the climax and reveals the secret of evil association.
Overall without arguement people will agree that movie will go down in the history as a classic. IMDB already has a staggering high rating of the movie 9.5 which is expected to come down though. A real treat from Christopher Nolan to world cinema.
User rating- 4.7/5
(some more high quality wallpapers of The Dark Knight)
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