Review of The Dark Knight
A group of Fantom regulars saw The Dark Knight at 12:02am this Friday morning. This was deemed the ideal time, as the stigma of being a crazy 12:01 viewer didn’t apply to us, but we weren’t Johnny-come-latelys like that clueless 12:03am audience.
My review is going to be as brief as the movie is brilliant. That means really, really brief. In fact, it can be summed up in 2 words: see it!
The 2.5 hour movie flew by. The writing was great, making this movie as un-hokey as you possibly could in a film involving a grown man dressing up like a bat. The images were visually stunning and the performances were all solid. Bale, Eckhart, Oldman and the rest of the cast delivered some damn fine acting, though they all paled before Heath Ledger’s brilliant and creepy-as-hell portrayal of the Joker. If you’ve been chalking the fawning up to his unfortunate and untimely demise, stop. He deserves every kudo he gets for his performance and I’d say the same thing were he still alive. Heck, even if he were still alive and accused of torturing puppies in his spare time, my opinion of him in this role would remain unchanged, though I’d probably be less glowing of him publicly.
In conclusion, this movie deserves every five star rating it gets. After Howard the Duck, this is the greatest super-hero comic book movie of all time. Do yourself a favor and see it. See it now! Don’t even finish this sentence, just get up and go. Stop reading! You’re wasting valuable time reading this when you could be heading to see The Dark Knight!