Director: Christopher Nolan
Writers: Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan, Bob Kane
Cast: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Set within a year after the events of Batman Begins, Batman, Lieutenant James Gordon, and new district attorney Harvey Dent successfully begin to round up the criminals that plague Gotham City until a mysterious and sadistic criminal mastermind known only as the Joker appears in Gotham, creating a new wave of chaos. Batman's struggle against the Joker becomes deeply personal, forcing him to "confront everything he believes" and improve his technology to stop him. A love triangle develops between Bruce Wayne, Dent and Rachel Dawes.[Synopsis by Leon Lombardi @ IMDB]
Comic book based masterpiece that I'd thankfully saved as my first ever experience viewing a film in imax and boy was I blown away. The basic plots about the Joker staking his claim on a consortium of the worlds biggest mob/crime gangs riches, while new district attorney Harvey Dent is trying to clean up the city. Not even Gothams dark knight vigilante Batman can seemingly stop the jokers rise to power. The visuals are so jaw dropping when viewed on the eight storey high imax screen that not even my dislike for Bale in the Batman role managed to spoil it for me. Heath Ledger's Joker performance is rightfully taking most the praise for how well this entry in the batman saga is doing. It trumps Batman Begins because its story is so much darker and more involving. It has upped comic book based films into an whole new epic status level. Here's hoping next years Watchmen (was the only trailer shown before the Dark Knight screening I watched) manages to keep to this standard and that its not very long before Nolan dishes up his third entry. Guess its only fair to finish with an R.I.P. for Ledger as without his presence Dark Knight would of been so much poorer. "I bet I can make this pen disappear".
(9 out of 10)
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