The Dark Knight // Vue // £21
Firstly, the film didn’t really cost £21, it was £8. But, by the time I had parked, had some popcorn and a coke I’d spent £21. Which is a lot, especially as I had to sit through almost 30 minutes of ad’s prior to the film starting and my seat smelled of wee. It’s not difficult to see why I rarely go to the cinema.
Anyway, The Dark Knight:
I think this film is basically the script from Spiderman 3, with some added bits to create confusion to cover-up the fact that it’s basically the script from Spiderman 3. When not reminding me of Spiderman 3, the film was difficult to follow, sprawling and poorly edited, with a disparate narrative that wasn’t even saved by any truly breathtaking action.
I’ve seen it all before, over and over (not that I should be surprised).
I found Bales’ Batman kinda laughable, with his ‘I’ve got a lower voice than Bruce Wayne, so I can’t be Bruce Wayne, can I?’ routine. Ledger is good, but in a weird twisted way, he becomes a morbid stooge. He’s dead, and you can’t help thinking about that, which sort of makes The Dark Knight an unintentionally macabre spectacle. Oldman is clearly just going through the motions as Gorden, and Harvey Dent/Aaron Eckhart is reasonable until, in a matter of seconds, he transforms from the person who is saving Gotham into a super ’stabby/shooty’ villain - which is just plain stupid.
I might have missed something (like the point), but I didn’t much like this film. It’s all the above. plus a load of racing against the ticking clock and dead people not really being dead etc…
Hype aside, it has long been said that the editor is the audiences best friend. Sadly for Batman, he has no such friend, or savior.
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Here, here - dead actor or not, billions taken in box offices or not (sounds like a Windows Vista marketing ploy), The Dark Knight had me in confusing circles more than Casino Royale.
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BATMAN??? You remember him: crime fighter, emerged dramatically from a bat cave, sometimes had a side kick. Story line’s aside, The Dark Knight had so much self-searching time wasting acting that someone forgot to tell us that the fun and action would be left outa this one.
I walked out missing AU$20, not much I guess for a loss, but a loss all the same.