The Dark Knight

At 155 mins, I thought it would either put me to zzzZZZzz or have draggy parts in it. Batman was never a superhero I like, probably because he doesn't have any superpowers and the stories are always so called "dark". This instalment was above expectation, really good.

And also a very much critically acclaimed performance by Heath Ledger as the Joker, I am not that kind that was too particular on how crap or how good he/she act. Coz if it can get onto the big screen, the standard would somehow be there.

Since as Joker, someone who you almost impossible to guess what he was thinking and what he wants, the latter because simply he doesn't want anything. A new DA, Harvey Dent was seen as the man who can be the hero of Gotham, putting all bad thugs behind bars. Together with police honcho Gordon and Battie, they form a quite invincible team, terrorizing the organization crime.

Then came along, Joker, he came along and rifled into the baddie gangs, offering his service to kill Battie. As the team tried to put the bad guy behind bars the right way, joker starts his killing rampage, killing the police commissoner, judge, he missed out on Harvey as Battie got him away just in time.

Joker wants Battie to reveal himself and surrendered to the police as part of this game. He told the whole world he will killed the mayor which he almost did, battie seemingly fighting a losing battle, wanted to do what the Joker wants but at the press conference, Harvey did that instead.

As Harvey was escorted along the way to the County, Joker came along but was caught by Battie, with Joker in jail, but even when he was caught, his plan was being carried out. He kidnapped Harvey and the love of both Harvey and Battie, locked away in 2 places. Revealing the wrong place to Battie, knowingly that he would definitely save his love.

Thought battie managed to save Harvey, but his face was badly burnt and he literally became 2-face. Losing this love was too much for him to handle and the Joker brought him to the bad side, playing mind and emotional games. 2-face knew that it was one of Gordon's man who drove his love away. He wanted revenge, kidnapping Gordon's family. While this happened, Joker played more of this games ... blewing up a hospital and forcing thousands of people being transported away onto 2 huge vessels.

He gave both groups of people on the vessels a chance to blew up each other first. A group of normal citizens and the other was full of criminals. But somehow, his plan failed, some form of 人之初 性本善 still existed. If one of the vessels would have blew up, it would have being a too dark ending for this movie.

Overall, very good. Good story, exihilarating action scenes, great acting but probably they need to get a much more pretty female lead. And also there are some parts where multiple scenes are shown rapidly in which the results of each are in sequence of each ... I liked that. 9/10