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I saw it last night at midnight.
It was simply... amazing. In my opinion, it's the best of the Batman films by far. While Batman Begins showed Wayne assuming the Batman persona, he didn't truly take it on until this film. TDK is a great character study of Wayne/Batman and what it truly means to be Batman in relation to power, responsibility etc. Christian Bale did a great job once again.
Going into the film, I had read some of the buzz for Heath Ledger and how he deserved an Oscar for the role, but I didn't really buy into it. I can see what all the hype was about now. Ledger took the Joker and brought him into a real world context. It's hard to explain without seeing it, but the character just seemed... real. Overall, he did a brilliant job in portraying the voice, laugh and mannerisms of the Joker in his own way without re-writing the character. In my opinion, it's the best portrayal of the character to date and it's a damn shame Ledger didn't live to see it.
Aaron Eckhart did a solid job as Dent but he's really outshined here. Overall though, he did what he needed to. It's a shame they didn't flesh out the character more for him though. If there was a weak point to the movie, that was it.
All of the auxiliary actors/characters did well alongside the mains. Maggie Gyllenhaal was a nice upgrade from Katie Holmes and came off like she should have played Rachel in the first place. Oldman really came into his own as Gordon. Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman have some very well played and subtly powerful scenes as well. I love that they decided to play Lucius Fox off as an enabler and a secondary moral compass as well.
As for the story, it's difficult to get into it much without spoiling anything, but I enjoyed it a lot. It's obvious that they are building to a 3rd movie and thus this installment has sort of an Empire Strikes Back feeling to it, and no... the Joker is not Bruce Wayne's father. >.>
All in all, it was definitely worth going into work today on only three hours sleep.
It was simply... amazing. In my opinion, it's the best of the Batman films by far. While Batman Begins showed Wayne assuming the Batman persona, he didn't truly take it on until this film. TDK is a great character study of Wayne/Batman and what it truly means to be Batman in relation to power, responsibility etc. Christian Bale did a great job once again.
Going into the film, I had read some of the buzz for Heath Ledger and how he deserved an Oscar for the role, but I didn't really buy into it. I can see what all the hype was about now. Ledger took the Joker and brought him into a real world context. It's hard to explain without seeing it, but the character just seemed... real. Overall, he did a brilliant job in portraying the voice, laugh and mannerisms of the Joker in his own way without re-writing the character. In my opinion, it's the best portrayal of the character to date and it's a damn shame Ledger didn't live to see it.
Aaron Eckhart did a solid job as Dent but he's really outshined here. Overall though, he did what he needed to. It's a shame they didn't flesh out the character more for him though. If there was a weak point to the movie, that was it.
All of the auxiliary actors/characters did well alongside the mains. Maggie Gyllenhaal was a nice upgrade from Katie Holmes and came off like she should have played Rachel in the first place. Oldman really came into his own as Gordon. Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman have some very well played and subtly powerful scenes as well. I love that they decided to play Lucius Fox off as an enabler and a secondary moral compass as well.
As for the story, it's difficult to get into it much without spoiling anything, but I enjoyed it a lot. It's obvious that they are building to a 3rd movie and thus this installment has sort of an Empire Strikes Back feeling to it, and no... the Joker is not Bruce Wayne's father. >.>
All in all, it was definitely worth going into work today on only three hours sleep.
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