The dark knight is one of the best films ever, succeeding on multiple levels. It is a very well designed and stimulating web site, and is punishingly long, cramming in enough erstwhile plot points, zig-zags and twists in to fill out two or three films. It is at its best when it slows down the action and dwells on the character moments and there’s a lot to choose from. The dark knight is a worthy and entertaining sequel any fan of Batman will love, and is bound to haunt you long after you’ve told yourself, Aah, it’s only a comic-book movie.
Heath Ledger ’s Joker takes it higher still, and the 28-year-old actor’s death earlier this year of an accidental overdose lends the film an air of a funeral and a rollicking, out-of-control wake mixed together, and Ledger burns up the screen, literally and figuratively, his malevolent specter looming over each and every scene.
Nolan shot six major action sequences with IMAX cameras, and the movie is even more compelling in this format, and film clocks in at just over 2. He surely could have delivered his Godfather . Nolan has crafted a taut film noir that has disguised itself as an action thriller. He is a genius. Nolan is one of our smarter directors.
Nolan’s direction is of course impeccable and he somehow manages to not only keep the ship on course, but to create the crowning achievement of the superhero genre, and and crew have created something close to a masterpiece.
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