The Dark Knight

Let it be said that it’s such a fearless, fierce, menacing turn that comparisons with Jack Nicholson don’t come into it. This is the definitive Joker.

When was the last time you saw a blockbuster that was impeccably executed and simultaneously thought-provoking, audacious and unnerving while consistently being fun and entertaining?

Twisted, tortured, terrifying - and terrific.

This comic-book movie is more disturbing, and has more freakish power, than anything else I've seen all year.

Because make no mistake: The Dark Knight is many things, some of them deliriously fun, some of them deeply impressive, and some of them puzzling and frustrating. But most of all it is dark.

You keep waiting for the movie to clarify, to settle down to its archetypal purity: icon of psychotic evil against icon of neurotic good. Music by Wagner in his "Götterdämmerung" mood, screenplay by Nietzsche, with additional lines by Babaloo Mandel. Oh, what a great big movie wallow, what a transformational blast of cine-pleasure. It never quite arrives

The novelty wears off and the lack of imagination, visual and otherwise, turns into a drag. The Dark Knight is noisy, jumbled, and sadistic.

Even Epik High’s song about charming villains came out in 2012. Psychopaths had long been popularized, but they usually felt distant—chilling and unpleasant, but definitely not "everyday" beings.260312 (5.0)I watched this in the theater back in 2008, and I was absolutely stunned by a version of pure evil that felt almost playful—like someone you could just pass by on the street. It wasn't the typical, calculated cinematic psychopath; it was a spontaneous, mischievous kind of malice that felt terrifyingly grounded. What made it a perfect 5.0 for me was that Batman didn't back down for a second—he stood his ground against that chaos with equal intensity. The balance between that unpredictable villain and a hero who could actually keep up created a cinematic synergy that defined the year for me. It remains a masterpiece that captured a very specific, haunting energy.

Esta película me parece bastante sobrevalorada, y no la obra maestra que algunos dicen que es. El hecho de que, en su lista de las 500 mejores películas de la historia, la revista Empire coloque "El Caballero Oscuro" justo una posición por encima de "2001: Una Odisea Del Espacio" y muy por encima de otras obras maestras como "Ben-Hur" o "Blade Runner" me resulta injusto, sinceramente.

I have the same thoughts that I have expressed for "Batman Begins". I report here what I wrote about the first movie of the trilogy "The story of the movie is well known but I don't like Nolan directing action movies. I think action scenes are not is strength and screenplays often have some lacks. In my opinion this is not nolan worst movie but it doesn't turn out to be his best one."

"The Dark Knight" is a sadistic, sick-minded film that taps into the sick minds of the fanboys. Christopher Nolan understands his audience. This is their ultimate hate-filled fantasy.

Overly convoluted mess of a film that shows a man in a Batman costume who does not behave at all like Batman.