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Description
The follow-up to Batman Begins, The Dark Knight reunites director Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale, who reprises the role of Batman/Bruce Wayne in his continuing war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to destroy organized crime in Gotham for good. The triumvirate proves effective, but soon find themselves prey to a rising criminal mastermind known as The Joker, who thrusts Gotham into anarchy and forces Batman closer to crossing the fine line between hero and vigilante. Heath Ledger stars as archvillain The Joker, and Aaron Eckhart plays Dent. Maggie Gyllenhaal joins the cast as Rachel Dawes. Returning from Batman Begins are Gary Oldman as Gordon, Michael Caine as Alfred and Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox.
Product Details
Actors:
Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine
Director:
Christopher Nolan
Format:
AC-3, Color, Dolby, Widescreen
Language:
English
Subtitle:
English, French, Spanish
Number of Discs:
2
Studio:
Warner Home Video
Run Time:
152 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date:
December 09, 2008
Average Customer Rating:
based on 1324 reviews
Customer Reviews
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0 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Too Narrow Sep 08, 2010 The picture aspect of 2.40:1 is too narrow for acceptable viewing on a standard television,particularly if your eyesight is less than average.
Incredible movie, poor shipping Sep 07, 2010 While this movie itself is fantastic and an overall enthralling watch, I was very disappointed with amazon for their delivery of this specific item. I ordered it from them (new) and when the package arrived the dvd box was cracked and broken. This is no way for a brand new item to arrive. I sincerely hope that this never happens again because I have ordered many books and movies from Amazon and have had no previous problems.
2 of 4 found the following review helpful:
A good action film Sep 05, 2010 Let me start off by saying that I was not impressed by the dullness of Batman Begins. The Dark Knight, despite it's deperate attempt to have meaning, come off as far too self-important. The only thing has seemed to improve between the two films is the action and the characterizations still remain limp.
The opening action sequence reflects this workman-like character of the Joker. What is a fine opening for a Micheal Mann action thriller, and bearing very simular photography, just reflects the films un-remarkable nature. The Joker, Batman's greatest foe because he is the antithesis of rational thought in all aspects of life, is a very conservative terrorist for "chaos" in Nolan's interpretation. Going back to this bank heist, he murders his accomplises by having them kill each-other or shooting them personally. This is a very efficient villian but not the Joker. His murders like these thugs and liquidating the mob's power with deceit and explosives is boring for such an off-the-wall maniac who's most famous episodes in comic books included selling poisoned fish and running for Govenor. Joker spouts his prententious messages constantly as the bringer of chaos but in a not so chaotic matter. He seems to be operating for the sake of nothing in this film, it's not chaos but more like who he dosen't want to see running Gotham. Joker claims Batman completes him but there interaction in this film is almost nil. They have a few breif personal, and painful, encounters but why would Joker be fascinated by Batman in particular ? True he did foil of his encounters at one point but it was a loud, noisy, chase, through-out the streets of Gotham, the intimacy wasn't present; Cleary the writers took advantage of the fact that Batman and The Joker have been enemies in the comics for decades so why bother to establish their relationship.
Another thing is Joker seems none too interested in being a serial killer or even a public harm. He scares them and kills one civilian dressed up as Batman but it all relates to the forces between "good" and "evil", it's not the common man. The finale was the only time he was after people but he still came off as a common and un-remarkable terrorist and more of the writer's desperate attempt to hammer in post-9/11 themes; We all know people can be sick and cruel, etc. so to try and sell this tripe to an audience of living adults is fruitless. The Joker should have committed, real random acts of crime for the sake of his own pleasure, a perverted "clown" who decided that has his fun with the public and the Batman. Heath Ledger comes off as a living, breathing, psycho and a feeling uncomfort does crawl on one's skin but his part is written so un-remarkably; A fine preformance that derserved better writing.
The secound villian introduced here is Harvey Dent who becomes the villian Two-Face at the climax of the film. He is pratically a non-entity in this film who, like everyone else in this film, LOVES spouting the obvious like "You thought we could be decent men in an indecent time. But you were wrong. The world is cruel, and the only morality in a cruel world is chance."Haven't we had enough of that from The Joker who also was hammering that theme already ? As the crusading DA he is as robotic as the Bale Batman, not too concerned about being torn between his loved ones and just out for justice. Hollywood needs to see that just because a handsome man is with a beautiful woman, that is enough to call it a "relationship". I also can't believe how he evolved during the course of this film. Sure there was foreshadowing to his turn to evil by privately interrogating and nearly killing a man but why would he attack Batman and Gordon ? His beef was with the mob. Yes, I know it's all about how he blamed himself and others but that dosen't make much sense when he believed it was Sal Maroni who maimed him and killed Rachel Dawes.
I would liked to have seen Dent transform much earlier in the film so he could attack the mobsters without consequence; The role the writers decided, incorrectly, the Joker should occupy.
There is not much to cover with Dawes or Alfred. I mean they really layed on the prentention for both of them. Everytime Alfred speaks it's only something corny about Batman doing good in the world even when, I think, he was suppose to be consuling Bruce Wayne when Harvey Dent is killed and Rachel Dawes died. Dawes herself is still just a talking head but now shes conflicted between having Harvey or Bruce and I can't say I have any sypathy when these characters are so robotic.
Overall, the film improves on the action which was pretty badly done in the previous Nolan effort. However Batman himself is just as bland and brooding as ever, scarficing himself at the end but not for much reason. It's clear how much this film borrows from Jeph Loeb's brilliant graphic novels The Long Holloween and Dark Victory but they got everything mixed up for this film. It was Dent who should have been the main villian and Joker his accomplice who should have eventually fractured him, that would have been perfect. Above all, the ending was idiotic. Batman was suppose to be the symbol of Gotham's hope. True he seems a bit more human here trying to possibly retire from the role as Gotham's savior and have Harvey Dent as DA taking the responsibility. However, Dent became a killer and died and now the Batman must scarifice himself to look like a villian ? A dead matyr can only last for so long so essentially Batman's actions at the conclusion of this film were obtuse. A fine action film with some spectacular stunts, some of the most creative years, but a very shallow film that tries to be a lot more than it is.
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Now THERE'S a Batman! Aug 21, 2010 This movie is incredible. I proclaim myself a fanboy. I mean, gosh darn it, Christopher Nolan took his filmmaking excellence to a whole 'nother level with this one. Filmed on location in Chicago, it features a huge truck wreck, a bank robbery, an enormous explosion, and a loco hombre with a pastey face and a lot of crazy ideas rattling in his head. He leaps giddily from one demonic impulse to the next, eager to get the rest of Gotham on his murderous, anarchist wagon.
Take a look at the Blu-Ray picture. Ten years ago, it would have been fit for a straight-to-video cartoon movie for whatever people still follow and enjoy the shows (I don't know any such humans). But in 2008, how the ache ee double hockey sticks did Batman swoop back into style and become the biggest box office draw of the year and stomp a foothold into world cinema statistics.
Everyone has discussed the greatness of Heath Ledger in the role, and it's really sort of incapable of being overstated; he becomes a role that will haunt the dreams of all those little kids that managed to see it, and for that, such should be honored.
Thank you Joker, Batman, Two-Face, Lieutenant, and hey! Also Christopher Nolan and Hans Zimmer. And the many many people. Don't waste more time, go get this and love it: if for nothing else, than because ofthe awesome sex scene.
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
great movie, great bluray transfer Aug 19, 2010 This movie looks really good in bluray, and of course the movie is fun to watch. Pick this movie up if you have a bluray player and want to watch a fun action packed movie.
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based on 1324 reviews
Too Narrow Sep 08, 2010
Incredible movie, poor shipping Sep 07, 2010
A good action film Sep 05, 2010
Now THERE'S a Batman! Aug 21, 2010
