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Makes every other superhero film look silly...
PostedJuly 19, 2008
StrangeInterlude
from Cincinnati, OH
Christopher Nolan brilliantly transcends the superhero genre to bring us an operatic, crackling crime drama with larger-than-life characters and harrowing insight into the depths of the human soul.
The lead performances are solid all the way through; even though Bale's Batman/Bruce Wayne takes something of a back seat to Ledger's Joker and Eckhardt's Harvey Dent, the movie never puts Batman in the colorless traffic-cop role that he was relegated to in movies like Batman Returns and Batman Forever, instead making the character a dramatic catalyst.
The entire film has an epic feel, with a brilliantly-realized Gotham City (actually Chicago) that doesn't exist on a soundstage and a screenplay that is absolutely crammed with incident and plot. Like a great roller coaster, there's actually times when a viewer might guess that the film is nearing its end, and suddenly another plot point surfaces that takes us on another twenty-minute spin. The other superhero films released this year were just appetizers; this is the main course.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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