The dark tights have successfully transformed into The Dark Knight, the latest incarnation of Gotham City's superhero Batman. The movie's title couldn't be more suitable, as many reviews noted it as "dark", "toxic", and "haunting". Well, I'd like to add another one: "awesomely long" as in "it's so long your ass will hurt" long. Those red seats must be really warm after each show.
Gotham city got a strong new DA, Harvey Dent, whose career has seen a huge number of criminals sent to jail. He has become some kinda bright light of law enforcement for the citizens, while Batman still did his usual crime-fighting away from the spotlight. The White Knight and the Dark Knight, you might say that. Then came the anarchic villain Joker with all his ingenious evil plans which ranges from your plain ol' robbery to provoking the whole city into murder. Hence, Batman, along with his pal Jim Gordon, teamed up with Dent to end Joker's reign of terror. Inbetween the exhilarating action scenes, they talked stuffs about darkness, evil, and all that jazz which are so not in my area of expertise; but still, the whole story is thought-provoking.
The highlight of the movie is simply Joker. The late Heath Ledger brought the evil clown into a totally new level. We can see Joker's eccentric thoughts through his acting, and also through the tons of makeup. His character was very strong and consistently crazy just like his astounding plots. His last plan involved talking the passengers of two ferries -one filled with civilians, the other with criminals- into blowing each other up. Maybe his line is the best way to describe himself: "this city deserves a better class of criminal" and apparently, he is that better criminal.
This movie undeniably lived up to the hype surrounding it. If at this time you haven't seen it, go to a confession and repent.
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