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The Dark Knight
2008
Batman and James Gordon join forces with Gotham's new District Attorney, Harvey Dent, to take on a psychotic bank robber known as The Joker, whilst other forces plot against them, and Joker's crimes grow more and more deadly. Read more
| Starring | Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Morgan Freeman |
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| Director | Christopher Nolan |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Audio Descriptive, Thriller |
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The Dark Knight
Batman and James Gordon join forces with Gotham's new District Attorney, Harvey Dent, to take on a psychotic bank robber known as The Joker, whilst other forces plot against them, and Joker's crimes grow more and more deadly.
| Starring | Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman, Michael Caine, Aaron Eckhart |
|---|---|
| Director | Christopher Nolan |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 26 mins Blu-ray: 2 hrs 26 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Hot Hits, 100 Most Wanted, Ezio's Top 10 |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Audio Descriptive, Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English, English Audio Description Blu-ray: English, English Audio Description |
| Released | DVD: 08 Dec 2008 Blu-ray: 08 Dec 2008 Production year: 2008 |
| Format | DVD |
The Dark Knight (2008)
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235 out of 263 people found this review helpful
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Long awaited
Trailer looks awesome, and critics say film good, cant wait
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The Knight is Darkest before the Dawn
Oh wicked i've watched the trailer! Is that a helpful review?
Also i'm impressed with Katherine from London, seeing it a day before the release on 23/07/2008, WOW!
Enough of my rant. Ok i cannot tell you how much i looked forward to this film, the first one blew me away. I'm a huge comic geek and love the Batman saga, Batman Begins was one of the best Batman tales told in any medium!!
I managed top get a ticket for the first screening on the 23rd and picked up my free Batman poster at the door. The screening was electric, it makes so much of a difference watching a film with people that share your enthusiasm!!
The opening bank heist sets the scene this isn't a superhero film, it's a crime epic! It's different in tone from the first film but not so far removed that it jars you! There are so many characters in this it would've been more aptly titled Gotham City, because Batman isn't the main center of the film. Again this isnt a bad thing it just takes some adjusting! All the other main characters are great (Thank You Katie Holmes for turning down the role of Rachel), even characters like policemen that dont have big parts are fleshed out 3D characters. Caine, Freeman and Oldman are as good as ever and Maggie is 10x better than Katie Holmes. Dent is the innocent good soul of the film and Eckhart doesnt dissapoint in his performance!
Yep Heath is as good if not better than they say, yep he pretty much overshadows the other characters and yes his pencil trick is great!
The film's main theme is about three men Dent, Gordon and Batman trying to save a city they love all in different ways. It's like a Shakespearian tragedy where you know that things are going to turn bad for these guys and even if they live will they really want to!
Heath's Joker is the perfect bad guy for such formidable good guys and Joker brings Gotham to its knee's! You cant take your eyes off him, EVERYTHING he does epitomises the Joker character. The voice, the walk, the licking of the lips, the crazy/childlike/evil eyes! You eat his performance like its cocaine candy!!
The action isn't a huge part of this film but when it cranks up its riveting! I really missed the bats and the batcave though! The city looked more like a real city than Gotham and i think that it lacked the Gothic darkness of Gotham. But to be fair if the city was as dark as the rest of the film, they should've handed out razor blades rather than posters! Cos this film is bleak.
Bad Points:
The story told isn't tailored to a 12A cert. There are parts like when Joker first tells the 'Why so Serious?' story, that the cut away from the action is jarring. Mainly because it would tip the film to 15 or even 18 cert. It reeks of studio medling, but i hear Nolan has a 3hr version that might have the more adult cut! Please let it be on the DVD release!!
The story is massive and is crammed into 2.30hrs its hard going sometimes and Batman isn't in it that much! There are parts that seem cut due to runtime, like Batman jumping out of a window during a party for Dent leaving the Joker there with the innocent party people??
These are minor bad points and dont detract much from a great film!
There is so much more in this film than you can take in with one view: past villains, Batman copycats, backstabbers, twists, turns, gadgets, future villains, mobsters....
Its just weird not to be raving about Bale in one of his films, he's far from bad in this film. It's just his characters development isn't the driving force for this film, unlike the first film. Its a flawless performance by him, its just a testament to how good this film is that there's better things to rave about than Bale! The film is more of the development of Dent and the eye candy of Joker
Go see this now! Let the hype raise your expectations, it wont dissapoint! Its just a shame that if there's a third film Heath wont be in it! :( -
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Director Christopher Nolan (MEMENTO, THE PRESTIGE) returns to Gotham City with this sequel to the critically-acclaimed fan favourite, BATMAN BEGINS. In THE DARK KNIGHT, Batman (Christian Bale - RESCUE DAWN, AMERICAN PSYCHO) squares off against a new, completely psychotic foe: the Joker (Heath ...
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