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In Darkest Knight...
PostedJuly 18, 2008
LeslieDavis
from Seattle
I've read other reviewers who compare this flick to other crime related dramas, and to be quite frank I think they are no talent hacks. When reviewing a piece of art, if your only ability is to compare it to something else, and not enjoy it on its own merits, you need to stop writing. This movie breaks the barriers between the worlds of reality, comic books, and film wide open. Chris Nolan takes his largest budget and uses it like a kid in a candy store to great effect; eliciting the exact feelings he wants to elicit, with the delicate touch, or massive sledgehammer, and he does it with an ability only a true Master can obtain. This was a great film. I heard people coming out of last nights screening talking about how they could see how playing the Joker killed Ledger. I say Bull; he died because he was on a bunch of different meds, and while obviously a better actor than his turn in a Knights Tale would suspect, was still dumb enough to OD. I almost suspect he OD'd on purpose to make what he felt was an untoppable performance his lasting legacy. And indeed his performance was the greatest incarnation of the Joker to grace any screen. Inevitably people will compare it with Jack Nicholsons performance in that Tim Burton flick. There really isn't a comparison because the films themselves were so thematically different, the directing so drastically different, and while developed from the same source material, would be like trying to compare the Joker from the oft lamented Batman Motion Picture from the 60's. In Short: This movie stands on it's own in whatever category of film you want to place it, Drama, Suspence, Action, Crime, it has it all and dispenses it sparingly and gluttonously at the same time.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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