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A Grown-up Comic Book Movie
PostedJuly 19, 2008
twinkie49
from Denton, TX
I have been going to big budget comic book and action movies for a long time and this is the best one of all. Christian Bale has recreated Batman into the most iconic of the comic book heroes since Christopher Reed amazed us with Superman, yet Bale's Batman is not a one-note goody two-shoes. He is a complicated, flawed human being wrestling with the questions of what to do with his enormous wealth and power -- similar to Spiderman's coping with the responsibility brought on by good fortune -- and being a man with a complex, dark, even at some points evil past -- similar to Ironman's dissipated and psychologically damaged beginnings. Bale's Batman is better than Downey's Ironman. But the real difference between The Dark Knight as a single movie and the other comic books is the villain, the late Heath Ledger's Joker. It is the Joker that elevates this movie above the other comic book movies because even with all the technology and the explosions and the action, we can see an acting duel that is more entertaining, more muscular and more artful than we see in most movies of any genre. The supporting cast is just right. Maggie Gyllenhall provides a more equal match as a love interest to both Bale and Aaron Eckhart. They are both in love with a grown woman here, not one of Hollywood's famous skinny starlets. Some of this stuff is a little dark for kids, but teens and tweens will be good to go with this one. It will give them something to think about, along with all the rest of us.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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