Dark Knight Review…
July 29, 2008
“You’re just a freak….like me”
With that line, the late Heath Ledger has cemented his place in cinema history. Never has a movie been so hyped…and delivered.
The story, for those who haven’t seen it, revolves around the cleaning up of Gotham City but newly appointed District Attorney Harvey Dent (played masterfully by Aaron Eckhart).Dent’s objective is to rid the city of the mob element .However, the fly in his ointment is Ledger’s Joker, who somehow has convinced that Dent is not the problem, it’s “The Batman” and that his reach knows no jurisdiction.
Batman (played once again brilliantly by Christian Bale), is at a career crossroads. He now believes that Gotham does not need The Dark Knight and actually rallies his support behind D.A. Dent, who now is dating former flame Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal), who questions Wayne’s motivations.
As the city lies in ruins as the Joker’s plot unfolds, Lt. James Gordon (Gary Oldham), Dent, and Batman unearth a plan to snare The Joker. What they fail to realize is that the Joker has other ideas as his plan for retribution against all three unfolds as he rots in a Gotham jail. The end results forces Batman to choose between Rachel and Harvey Dent (who ironically are romantically linked).He chooses Dent but in the process, Dent becomes physically altered in the face from his harrowing rescue by The Dark Knight (due to his face being drenched on one side by oil that had leaked from a drum where he was being held hostage).
Upon this, Dent goes into a rage and blames Gordon and Batman for the death of Rachel and becomes a death dealer of sorts assuming the moniker “Harvey Two Face”, (a name not so flatteringly given to him as he came up through the ranks prior to becoming district attorney of Gotham).Forced into a corner, the Dark Knight decides, in the best interest of the people of the city, to become the hunted.
All in all, the great tragedy is that we will never know where The Joker would have gone due to the unfortunate death of Ledger. Still, it is rare that an all star cast delivers an all star movie. But Bale, Ledger, Oldham (not to mention veteran actors Michael Caine and the superb Morgan Freeman) do just that. This is a must see if ever there was one. Late
HBO First Look: Dark Knight [video]
July 15, 2008
After the piss poor Batman Begins, so far it seems as if Dark Knight redeems the Batman series. Im hoping that Christian Bale can stand up to likes of Michael Keaton, or Val Kilmer. Dark Knight, directed by the same Christopher Nolan that directed the (in my opinion) piss poor Batman Begins, will be hard to top the Tim Burton directed Batman and Batman Returns. My expectation is not to top the earlier of the Batman series’ but to somehow be of similar entertainment value. Its an added bonus that Morgan Freeman finds himself on the cast of this movie. All in all im really looking forward to it. And having been partly filmed in IMAX (using imax cameras), six scenes if im correct, that ought to be real hot checking it out at your local IMAX theater.
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Hi-Res Dark Knight Clip… Mr Two Face himself, Harvey Dent
June 20, 2008
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