Wow.
I just got back from the midnight showing of The Dark Knight and all I can say is WOW. It was amazing. Having said that, there was a part in the middle that I thought dragged a little bit, the scenes with the blue 3-D sonar vision thing kinda gave me a headache, and there was a lot of spinning. But all these are more than forgiven.
I know a lot of people are talking about Heath Ledger and for good reason. His portrayal of the Joker was incredible. He completely bowled over Jack Nicholson's Joker 100 fold. A lot of people see Nicholson's Joker as iconic, but Ledger's is epic. It was scary, I mean really fucking scary. I'm still half expecting the Joker to jump out of a dark corner.
As for the rest of the movie, there are funny moments, intense moments, sad moments, moments that piss you off, moments that make you extremely happy (Gary Oldman, I'm looking in your direction for the latter three!). It takes you up, brings you down, and makes you never want it to end. Even if your knees hurt a little and your butt is almost numb.
The action scenes are amazing and there are parts that just make you hold your breath. Although one of these moments makes you hold it for a bit too long. But whatever, it doesn't matter. What matters is the absolute scope of this movie. It goes beyond the comic, the cartoon, the old series, and definitely the old movies.
This is hands down my favorite sequel ever. It seriously goes above and beyond most of the movies I've seen.
PS: Michael Caine, your my fucking hero.
PPS: So are you, Morgan Freeman.














