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The Dark Knight is about the Joker and his attempts to prove that hate, anarchy, selfishness and evil is more powerful than good in Gotham City. I've never been a huge fan of this movie and it's taken me this long to figure out why: the film is a complete downer - which is actually fine - but it's just not entertaining enough to offset its bleakness. Heath Ledger and his amazing performance IS the movie, and that's kindof the problem. He's got all the best lines, the best makeup, the best clothes, all the comic relief - everything. But he's also an evil rotten murderer. But since no one else in the cast even registers, Ledger and his performace outshines everyone and you end up rooting for him! After I watch this film I literally feel filthy. Now, the premise of the flick is sound, and the telling of the story is competent but this movie could have been SO much better and so much more entertaining if they'd cast Viggo Mortensen as the Batman. Christian Bale is just a cipher: he registers as nothing more than an entity.. a justification, sounding board or counterpoint to the Joker's evil. If the filmmakers would have had the sense to cast Viggo Mortensen as Batman everything would have fallen into place.
Think about it: you can see Mortensen as an anti-hero. He's got the jaw for it; the eyes and the teeth.. If you don't believe me watch the movie A History of Violence and check out the look on his (Mortensen's) face right after his son shotguns Ed Harris's character in the back. Youtube it right now. See what I mean? You can see Mortensen's Dark Knight accidentally killing a bad guy and then going out, getting drunk and puking on his Lamborghini. Remember that police station interrogation scene? Where Christian Bale irritates us all by growling and yelling? Great scene for Joker.. But put Mortensen in the Batman role; You can see his Batman pulling out a butterfly bat-knife and after a mettalic flourish stabbing it into that desk and talking to Joker about removing fingers and perforating nostrils. I'd like to see Joker go on about 'just want(ing) to make a phone call' after the loss of seven or eight digits.
With a script built around Mortensen as Batman this film would have been so much better! Everything would have been different: The first time we saw Luscious Fox he wouldn't have been going on about the batsuit or whatever.. He might have been giving Bruce Wayne a tattoo. Maybe a tattoo of Scarecrow - his most recent caught villain. At that dinner party with Harvey Dent, Bruce wouldn't have shown up with a bunch of blond headed supermodels in evening gowns, he probably have shown up with 3 or 4 brunette and red-headed whores dressed in mild s&m gear smoking cigarettes and pulling pit-bulls on leather leashes. Furthermore, the Batpod would have been chromed out and had a smoke screen. And finally, much as I love Michael Caine, if you cast Mortensen as Batman, Caine would be out and you know who would play Alfred? Peter O'toole. A man who was filthy nasty dark down and dirty before most of the rest of the cast was even born. THAT'S the Dark Knight I would have liked to see.
Christian Bale's Batman was always going on about how Harvey Dent was the best one out of all three of them (Dent, Batman and Comm Gordon); I never understood that because in this movie Batman wasn't dark at all. He pouted alot and growled alot but far as I could tell he was as good and pure a superhero as Gotham City could have asked for. Bale's Dark Knight wasn't dark at all. He was too pretty, to clean cut.. too boring to come across as the anti-hero. For me that's the film's biggest flaw.
2 stars.
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This movie has one problem, KATIE HOLMES! She isnt in this movie so it kind of ruined it when they used another actress, otherwise this movie is awesome 5 stars all the way. I have a thing, I like to see the same actors/actress in sequels and trilogies, it keeps that flavor.
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If you saw it, it warrants no explanation. One of the best films ever made.
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It's clear why this is a great movie and why it won lots of awards.
It's a must have for any movie collection.
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This sequel, really puts Batman sideways and bring Joker to the big screen as it was his own movie not his arch enemy , as it was supposed to be. Allthougth the super-hero don't seams such a great thing, the movie itself totally surprises you in a great way.
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