THE  DARK KNIGHT

The Dark Knight was by far the best movie that I have seen in years. ( period ) This is the first movie that I have even given an A+ so technically the best movie I have seen. Besides the hype that centered around the movie before opening day, the death of Heath Ledger, and the lack of Katie Holmes ( who I assume was not in the movie cause her husband is a Nucking Futter ), and the new fresh bulldog faced Maggie Gyllenhall the movie went off with out a hitch.

With Christian Bale playing the best Batman of them all. His performance in The Dark Knight was flawless being able to switch from Bruce Wayne to Batman was what impressed me the most. Bale seamlessly switched from being a millionaire playboy to a furious vigilante. The first four Batman movies are just that - movies that were watched because it was a Batman movie, but did not touch the complex characters that were introduced in this movie.

Ledger played one of the scariest villains ever to be in a superhero movie. He made the Joker the devilish sociopath that he was supposed to be like in the comic book and not some frumpy old man with a smiling scar. However Ledger did not look cartoonish at all and waned more to the side of something you would have nightmares about. His antics in the movie were slightly more of a moral challenge to test Batman and citizens of Gotham, do you kill to save others. These are the questions that you ask yourself when you leave the theatre.  Ledger also makes this licking motion which somehow seemed natural and not something that he would do on purpose as the Joker giving him the tick of a killer.

Harvey Dent aka. Two Face was in this movie not like I thought that he would be. Aaron Eckhart played it much better than Tommy Lee Jones could of dreamed of. During the movie they called him the White Knight because he was the counter to the Dark Knight. He was what Batman could never be and that is some one who did not have to break the law to enforce it. Without saying too much Dent becomes Two Face and the special effects for him were awesome, lets just say it was far better than anything that I have seen for facial makeup.

In closing all I will say is if you see one movie this year make it this one, but do not take the kids because it is that disturbing.