The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

One thing before I start:

1) This review is spoiler free. Therefore this will be relativley short since I dont want to give anything away, and I mean anything.

And......here.....we......go.

Christopher Nolan is one of those directors who cant seem to make a bad film. Memento, The Prestige, and of course Batman Begins are just 3 to name a few in a flawless career. The Dark Knight continues the formula by not only following up Begins perfectly but shattering the bar that it held so high.

Walking into The Dark Knight in the pit of my stomach I had a feeling the film could suffer from Spider-Man 3 syndrome. Excessive amount of villains, overload of plot, trying to cram to much in one film. I'm glad I went in expecting this because whenever I do and it turns out incredible it makes the experience so much better. Not only does The Dark Knight not suffer this problem uses it as a strength.

The Dark Knight picks up right where Begins ended, Batmans theatrics have jumpstarted a wave of good in Gotham. Enter the new DA for Gotham, Harvey Dent. Dent is played by Aaron Eckhart who does a phenononal job of portraying the white knight for Gotham. Dent does not back down and has put away half of Gothams mob. But as Gordon mentioned at the end of begins, the problem of escalation could occur and does. The "good" of gotham seems to be effective at first until "a better class of criminal" emerges known as the Joker.
The Joker is played by Heath Ledger and he better win an oscar for it. He throws his entire being into the role and the result is something that cant be described, you must see it. The Joker represents the word anarchy. The Joker is a criminal with no purpose and pushes Batman and all the people of Gotham to a limit that makes the line between hero and villian hard to distinguish.

That's all I'm going to say. Because that's all I need to say. The bottom line is go see this film immidiatley. When you think it can't get better it always seems to. It's one of those films that even after you leave it stays with you. It's easily the best super hero movie so far, and one of my favorite movies of all time.

Final Verdict: A+