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Average Rating: 8.4/10
Reviews Counted: 283
Fresh: 265 | Rotten: 18
Dark, complex and unforgettable, The Dark Knight succeeds not just as an entertaining comic book film, but as a richly thrilling crime saga.
Average Rating: 8/10
Critic Reviews: 45
Fresh: 41 | Rotten: 4
Dark, complex and unforgettable, The Dark Knight succeeds not just as an entertaining comic book film, but as a richly thrilling crime saga.
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Christopher Nolan steps back into the director's chair for this sequel to Batman Begins, which finds the titular superhero coming face to face with his greatest nemesis -- the dreaded Joker. Christian Bale returns to the role of Batman, Maggie Gyllenhaal takes over the role of Rachel Dawes (played by Katie Holmes in Batman Begins), and Brokeback Mountain star Heath Ledger dons the ghoulishly gleeful Joker makeup previously worn by Jack Nicholson and Cesar Romero. Just as it begins to appear as
PG-13, 2 hr. 32 min.
Drama, Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan, Johathan Nolan, David S. Goyer
Jul 18, 2008 Wide
Dec 9, 2008
$533.3M
Warner Bros. Pictures/Legendary
All Critics (283) | Top Critics (45) | Fresh (272) | Rotten (21) | DVD (28)
Christopher Nolan is much, much smarter than your average filmmaker.
Christopher Nolan's latest exploration of the Batman mythology steeps its muddled plot in so much murk that the Joker's maniacal nihilism comes to seem like a recurrent grace note.
The film is so relentlessly bleak that, paradoxically, its blackness is not given its full due. But this comic-book movie is more disturbing, and has more freakish power, than anything else I've seen all year.
Watching The Dark Knight is like gazing into a mirror on a waning moon night: chilling and mesmerizing.
Despite the tensions between its form and its function, The Dark Knight succeeds far more than it fails, and lingers provocatively in the mind.
There is an exquisite order in the chaos, a fascist formality and video game surrealism that resists the forces of disintegration with a sort of superhuman determination.
Visceral and terrifying.
Even if this wasn't Ledger's final role before his untimely death last year, his Joker would still go down in cinema history as one of the most creepily unhinged big-screen bad guys of all time.
More than a comic-book adventure, this is a sprawling crime epic.
You know you're watching a good movie when it puts a smile on your face right from the start. In the The Dark Knight it may be a twisted grimace but given the right perspective there's enjoyment to be had in even the bleakest subject matter.
Excellent sequel much darker, more violent than the first.
Allusions to our current struggles with surveillance, public perception and terrorism are thrown into the mix, adding political immediacy to Nolan's psycho noir.
Bring on part three.
Completely lacking in vanity, Ledger creates his finest performance.
Flawed and overrated.
It not only surpasses Batman Begins - previously considered the high-water mark of movies about the Caped Crusader - but one that magnificently transcends the superhero genre.
The Dark Knight is a masterpiece of the first order, and the first great post-Sept. 11 film.
Middling as a summer blockbuster, zero as art, and more than a bit alarming as a phenomenon
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Heath Ledger is Diana Ross and these other kids are The Supremes. Believe the hype, Mr. Ledger as The Joker is categorically brilliant. The late-great actor turned another Batman movie into a riveting film that will be Oscar worthy only because of him.
Despite its superhero trappings, The Dark Knight is more a piece of film noir.
The Dark Knight is a good movie. It has all the ingredients to be a great movie, but it isn't one. I may grudgingly put it on my best-ten-of-the year list (a paltry group at this point), but it could have been so much more. It came so close.
Count me among those who think Ledger delivers an Oscar-worthy performance, bringing depth and complexity to a character that hitherto had been portrayed as a one-dimensional comic-book villain.
One of the best superhero movies ever. Christian Bale continues to shine in this role. Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine are superb.
September 3, 2008Super Reviewer
You know my first response to the critical reviews of The Dark Knight was that I was absolutley shocked that a big budget, explosion diseased comic book super hero movie could possibly be as good as it was put out to be. To be honest, I hate to admit it, because of my disliking of comic book hero movies. Thinking that
November 13, 2011
Super Reviewer
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