Review of The Dark Knight (2008) by Edward B — 27 Dec 2015
Quoting the critic Mike Davies, it's viscerally thrilling. It has the same disturbing atmosphere of The Untouchables but with something completely different: not a mafia boss interested in something trivial like money, like Al Capone, but a completely out of his mind anarchic character like the Joker, who describes himself like a dog barking behind cars and that doesn't know what to do when it actually grab the car.
Just chaos for the love of chaos. I watched the first Tim Burton's Batman at cinema, when I was a child, and I loved Nicholson's Joker. But Heath Ledger's one is the true essence of the Joker, the one showed by Alan Moore's Killing Joke, for example : not just a comic villain, not just a mad man, something completely different, something way way more disturbing and specular to Batman.
The only flaw I could find in the movie is that it showed what immense talent was wasted by Heath Ledger's death. Ok, it's "just" a comic movie. But watch repeating in your head that Heath Ledger was 28 at the time of the movie (it looks way older because of the make up) and had decades of acting career in front of him.
The greatest actor of his generation and one of the most deserved Oscars ever, to my humble opinion.
This review of The Dark Knight (2008) was written by Edward B on 27 Dec 2015.
The Dark Knight has generally received very positive reviews.
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