"The Dark Knight" Ledger Has the Last Laugh

Genres: Action/Adventure, Crime/Gangster, Adaptation and Sequel
Release Date: July 18th, 2008 (wide)
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and some menace.
Distributors: Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution

Director: Christopher Nolan

JJ Rating: A

Gotham City has a new District Attorney by the name of Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) and he's the White Knight that is to save Gotham from the bad, bad mob like men. Then The Joker (Heath Ledger) plays his cards and makes things difficult for the new DA and Lt. James Gordon (Gary Oldman). But Batman, the Cape Crusader, the rat with wings, Gotham City's hope, the Dark Knight swoops in and tries to protect the very city he loves from the madness, the chaos, the destruction of the laughing clown of satanic seduction; The Joker. The Dark Knight.

The storyline was believable. It was dark, gritty, witty, fitting and cold. That makes The Dark Knight the closest to Batman ambiance as the first, if not closer. Ledger and Nolan's depiction of The Joker is as gruesome and disturbing as he should be. Harvey Dent was well played by Eckhart with a glow of goodness shadowed by a vale of darkness. Alfred is played by a dry wit Michael Caine with comfort and great regard to the character's integrity. Batman and Bruce Wayne had Bale's historic comic book touch that will, and mostly have, canonized him as one of the best Batmen to ever grace the silver screen.