The Dark Knight - Review

The Nolan Batman movies are some of the best entries into the superhero genre to date. They build a pretty believable world with some pretty compelling villains and good set pieces.

I have some problems with them in general. My biggest is that Bruce Wayne is pretty boring.

But that's not really what this is about.

The Dark Knight is heralded as one of the greatest comic book movies ever and that case seems to rest on Heath Ledgers performance and the fact that there was some oscars buzz around it. Thats a fine opinion.

I think the movie is pretty good but has two fundamental problems. The first is that if you're going to tell me Batman doesn't kill or seriously injure a single person through out the movie you're blind or lying to yourself. Batman iscausing incredible amounts of brain damage to people through out the film.

Its fine if the movie is kinda goofy. I can belive that everyone is ok in the end. But these movies are suppose to be dark and realistic. This then makes the Jokers motivation, to cause chaos and get Batman to kill, pointless in my mind. If every night the Bat goes out the ICUs fill up, I'm not going to care about another body.

My other problem is the Batcycle, or whatever its called. In this grounded and realistic world thats been created its a piece of alien technology. Nothing about it is believable in the slightest and its basically a deus ex machina.

This movie is fine but the world is broken into pieces by these two elements and I just find the movie annoying in all honesty.