The Dark Knight

Yo! I have a bit more of a detailed movie review for you here today and it's for The Dark Knight.
Oddly enough I watched The Dark Knight Rises first, which I probably shouldn't have done. But anyway, I have a review and here it is.

THE DARK KNIGHT
If you like batman and action and explosions and good looking guys, then you will love this movie if you haven't already seen it.

The film starts off with a bank robbery carried out by the Joker and his mob. Batman and Lt. Gordon decide to work with Harvey Dent, the new district attorney, to catch the Joker and his gang. The Joker targets Dent at the fundraiser thrown by Bruce Wayne. Harvey Dent and Rachel Dawes (whom Dent is dating) go missing a while after this and Batman confronts the Joker about the whereabouts of his friends only to find that the Joker has turned it into a little "game". Then some explosions happen and it gets all emotional for two particular characters and stuff but I can't go into too much detail at this point, you'll just have to watch it because it's fantastic.

Heath Ledger

Heath Ledger as the Joker

Heath Ledger's performance as "The Joker" was outstanding. I thought, from seeing the Joker, that Heath Ledger was about 40, maybe 50 but I was surprised to learn he was only 27 or 28 when he was acting in that film. Watching one of his interviews he seems quite a quiet guy and his voice is nothing like the Joker's. He was a fantastic actor and I was really sad to learn that he died around the time of the end of the filming of The Dark Knight. His make-up in the film was fantastic, making him well disguised as his character should be. The acting was just amazing, the way he moved, how he used his voice, how he portrayed the characteristics of the Joker who is really a bit of a mentalist and if you watch the BBC's 21st century adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, then you will probably know what I mean when I say that I think Batman and the Joker kind of resemble Sherlock and Moriarty in a way, personality wise.

Sherlock (left) Moriarty (right)

For The Dark Knight trailer click here.
And for BBC's Sherlock series 1 trailer click here.

Thanks so much for reading, the Joker applauds you.