Dark Knight Movie Review by undergroundmr
Dark Knight Movie Review by undergroundmr
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CURRENT RATINGS:
8/10 Movie: The Dark Knight (2008)
ACTING STYLE AND ABILITY - IS THE CHARACTER BELIEVABLE AND INTERESTING
Christian Bale as BATMAN seemed like the perfect choice in BATMAN BEGINS, but BALE’s performance in DARK KNIGHT was understated at best. BRUCE WAYNE continues to be a reclusive figure, but BALE’s brooding performance leaves WAYNE a character with little motivation and limited personality. The supporting characters including Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent and later Two-Face, Gary Oldman as James Gordon, and Maggie Gyllenhaal as Rachel Dawes are nicely developed with personalities, motivations, and complexities. The star of DARK KNIGHT is obviously the late Heath Ledger as The Joker with his disturbing and twisted character full of rage and hate for the human race.
THE STORY LINE - DOES THE STORY OR PLOT FLOW SMOOTHLY THROUGHOUT THE FILM
The plot revolves around THE JOKER’s plot to bring down GOTHAM CITY and make himself rich at the same time. The city is overrun with organized crime and THE JOKER is taking full advantage of the situation. To ensure that BATMAN does not hinder his plans, THE JOKER keeps him busy with potential victims that THE JOKER will kill including BATMAN’s childhood sweetheart RACHEL DAWES and her current boyfriend HARVEY DENT. As with most comic book/ graphic novels the hero comes out the winner but not without a heavy price.
PRODUCTION - DOES THE DIRECTOR HAVE STYLE, DOES THE PRODUCER HAVE AN OVERALL GOOD PRODUCT, AND DOES THE EDITOR MAKE THE FILM'S STORY AND ACTORS COME ALIVE
Director Christopher Nolan creates a visually more realistic GOTHAM CITY using CHICAGO for the locale shooting. The action sequences are faced paced, but the one on one combat scenes between BATMAN and various villains tend to be repetitive at times. The screenplay by JONATHAN AND CHRISTOPHER NOLAN does a tremendous job giving three dimensional personalities to the supporting characters but left out the main character BATMAN. BATMAN is the least developed character in the film with seemingly only new information about him is his deep seated love for his childhood sweetheart RACHEL DAWES. The supporting characters should have been used to shed more light on BATMAN’s obsession with protecting the city, his reclusive nature, and motivation for giving up love for duty.
THE UNDERGROUND UNIVERSE – OVERALL THOUGHTS
THE DARK KNIGHT is an intense comic book good guy/bad guy film with action, suspense, and overall good acting. HEATH LEDGER stands out as the villainous JOKER, but AARON ECKHART is outstanding as well as good guy HARVEY DENT and bad guy TWO FACE. The down side to DARK KNIGHT is CHRISTIAN BALE’s brooding performance as BATMAN. In BATMAN BEGINS, BALE was electrifying as BRUCE WAYNE but in this performance his character is underdeveloped and stagnant. The writers spent a great deal of time developing the supporting characters such as COMISSIONER GORDON, RACHEL, DENT, and THE JOKER that they forgot to give motivation and substance to BRUCE WAYNE. The overall production in DARK KNIGHT was terrific with appropriate atmosphere, complex characters, and plot moves along fairly smoothly. THE DARK KNIGHT is an intense film enhanced by the talent of HEATH LEDGER that should NOT be viewed by young, impressionable children.
Buy the Movie Poster for Dark Knight
CURRENT RATINGS:
8/10 Movie: The Dark Knight (2008)
ACTING STYLE AND ABILITY - IS THE CHARACTER BELIEVABLE AND INTERESTING
Christian Bale as BATMAN seemed like the perfect choice in BATMAN BEGINS, but BALE’s performance in DARK KNIGHT was understated at best. BRUCE WAYNE continues to be a reclusive figure, but BALE’s brooding performance leaves WAYNE a character with little motivation and limited personality. The supporting characters including Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent and later Two-Face, Gary Oldman as James Gordon, and Maggie Gyllenhaal as Rachel Dawes are nicely developed with personalities, motivations, and complexities. The star of DARK KNIGHT is obviously the late Heath Ledger as The Joker with his disturbing and twisted character full of rage and hate for the human race.
THE STORY LINE - DOES THE STORY OR PLOT FLOW SMOOTHLY THROUGHOUT THE FILM
The plot revolves around THE JOKER’s plot to bring down GOTHAM CITY and make himself rich at the same time. The city is overrun with organized crime and THE JOKER is taking full advantage of the situation. To ensure that BATMAN does not hinder his plans, THE JOKER keeps him busy with potential victims that THE JOKER will kill including BATMAN’s childhood sweetheart RACHEL DAWES and her current boyfriend HARVEY DENT. As with most comic book/ graphic novels the hero comes out the winner but not without a heavy price.
PRODUCTION - DOES THE DIRECTOR HAVE STYLE, DOES THE PRODUCER HAVE AN OVERALL GOOD PRODUCT, AND DOES THE EDITOR MAKE THE FILM'S STORY AND ACTORS COME ALIVE
Director Christopher Nolan creates a visually more realistic GOTHAM CITY using CHICAGO for the locale shooting. The action sequences are faced paced, but the one on one combat scenes between BATMAN and various villains tend to be repetitive at times. The screenplay by JONATHAN AND CHRISTOPHER NOLAN does a tremendous job giving three dimensional personalities to the supporting characters but left out the main character BATMAN. BATMAN is the least developed character in the film with seemingly only new information about him is his deep seated love for his childhood sweetheart RACHEL DAWES. The supporting characters should have been used to shed more light on BATMAN’s obsession with protecting the city, his reclusive nature, and motivation for giving up love for duty.
THE UNDERGROUND UNIVERSE – OVERALL THOUGHTS
THE DARK KNIGHT is an intense comic book good guy/bad guy film with action, suspense, and overall good acting. HEATH LEDGER stands out as the villainous JOKER, but AARON ECKHART is outstanding as well as good guy HARVEY DENT and bad guy TWO FACE. The down side to DARK KNIGHT is CHRISTIAN BALE’s brooding performance as BATMAN. In BATMAN BEGINS, BALE was electrifying as BRUCE WAYNE but in this performance his character is underdeveloped and stagnant. The writers spent a great deal of time developing the supporting characters such as COMISSIONER GORDON, RACHEL, DENT, and THE JOKER that they forgot to give motivation and substance to BRUCE WAYNE. The overall production in DARK KNIGHT was terrific with appropriate atmosphere, complex characters, and plot moves along fairly smoothly. THE DARK KNIGHT is an intense film enhanced by the talent of HEATH LEDGER that should NOT be viewed by young, impressionable children.
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