Just Watched: The Dark Knight
For the record, The Dark Knight is NOT a bad movie.
I definitely went to watch it because it’s Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale again. I loved Batman Begins and I loved The Prestige. So theoretically it’s almost guarantee that I should not be disappointed by this combo however, I was definitely disappointed this time no matter how people kept raving about this movie, not because it’s not a good movie, but because it’s not better than or even, as good as the past two movies I’ve watched by Nolan, in my very humble opinion.
Most audience love the intensity of the movie and how it is full of suspense. But I was looking for more than that from Nolan. It’s definitely true that Nolan and his production team had delivered a lot during that 2.5 hours and the story line was undoubtedly complicated to handle however, I wasn’t particularly impressed by the twist. I actually didn’t think it was unexpected and was handled as well as Nolan could have: every thing happened after the twist was just kind of hazy and couldn’t even leave a decent impression.
As far as I concerned, the acting was up to standard. Heath Ledger definitely out-acted Christian Bale. His portrayal of Joker was just so vivid that all the lines delivered by him were so memorable that I could still remember most of them. Whereas for Christian Bale, I think he has already done his best with his character. And how could I ever forget Michael Caine? His portrayal of Alfred has never let me down. Morgan Freeman however, in my humble opinion did not do as well as he had done with Batman Begins. It could be because of how the lines for his character were written. But I think he could still have done a better job. And boy, how wrong was I when I thought Katie Holmes was a bad cast for Rachel…
And please, I cannot understand their motives of filming in HK. I just found the whole HK story line completely unnecessary. So redundant that it could be taken away from the movie and show it to the others and they will be completely oblivious that part of the movie is removed. I was also pissed that most of the scenes in HK were indoors. God knows where that could actually have been. Nevertheless, I was impressed by the scene that Batman flew down from the top of IFC and gliding through the pretty night scenery of Hong Kong, but on the other hand, how the heck could the slow wind speed of urban HK support Batman’s weight was beyond my imagination… But if they did fly the entire crew to HK for just that scene, my only comment would be: what a good way of contributing to even more carbon emission. (Oh wait, I forgot the States are NOT in the Kyoto Protocol.)
Oh yeah, I almost forgot to mention that I didn’t even see Edison Chan in the movie. My mom claimed she did, but apparently no one can agree who’s actually him – some says he’s Lau’s assistant and some says he’s the security who asked Morgan Freeman for his mobile. My point is, he was that unnoticeable.