Senin, 21 Juli 2008

THE DARK KNIGHT

Title : The Dark Knight

Cast : Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhall, Morgan Freeman

Rating : The best batman movie ever!

Pics : wikipedia.com

Synopsis:

The story begins with robbery of mafia bank by bunch of clowns. They enter the bank put everybody in hostage and start to kill anybody troubling their act, and that's including kill their own friends in a group, and left The Joker (Heath Ledger) alone to have all the money. In the same night few Batman impersonators interrupt a meeting between mobsters and the scarecrow, the real Batman shows up and subdue everyone. And being attacked by mafia's dogs made Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) asked Fox (Morgan Freeman) a new suit.
Meanwhile district attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) and his girlfriend, Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal) which also Bruce Wayne ex girl friend, are in the court room, on an attempt to put one big mafia , Salvatore Maroni (Eric Roberts) to jail. The trial was not a big succes and Maroni walk out without any sanction.
The mafia bosses meet to discuss how to handle Batman, Gordon, and Dent, while a Chinese mafia accountant, Lau, lets the gang leaders know he has taken their money to Hong Kong to prevent the police and the district attorney from seizing it in an imminent bank raid.
Joker shows up in mafia's meeting and tell them that they will need him to protect their money and assured them that he is the only hope they have since Lau will be caught no matter what, and when it's happen no one can help them but him. Batman and Lt James Gordon contemplate bringing new district attorney Harvey Dent in on their plan to eradicate the mafia, and the possibility that Dent will become the hero to the people that Batman cannot be. Batman manages to abduct Lau from his Hongkong office and bring him to Lt. Gordon (Gary Oldman) prison. This lead to succesful agreement of The Joker and mafia bosses since after Lau's captured police have seized almost all mafia in town, hundreds of mobs are captured and trialled.
Joker sends a video message and asks Batman to reveal himself, he will start killing people until Batman open his mask in public. The judge and Commisioner Loeb are killed, Harvey Dent also in the kill list, but before the Joker reaches him in Wayne party, Batman saves Dent and urge him to held a press conference and Batman will reveal himself to public to stop another killing. Dent calls Rachel after Batman rescues him and ask her to go somewhere else safe, Rachel said that the safest place is Wayne mansion, and there she goes.
In the press conference, Dent admits that he is Batman before Bruce steps up and confess. Dent is arrested and bought to county jail, but Joker is trying to kill him on his way, the real Batman shows up and intervene, Joker is caught. While Joker is interrogated, Batman realized that Joker has Rachel and Dent as hostages. They are placed in opposites place in town with tons of bombs. Batman is rushed to save Rachel and Lt. Gordon go to other direction to save Dent. They just don't realize that Joker has switched the locations, Batman saves Dent tough half oh his left face is burnt, but Dent is refused to be saved and wants Batman to save Rachel. Seconds before Lt. Gordon reached Rachel's place, the bomb's explodes, Rachel is killed.
Dent refuses to have skin transplantation an let his left face burnt, the loss makes him blame Batman, Gordon, and Joker. Joker saves Dent before he explodes the hospital, and assured him to revenge on Batman, cops, and the mobs. Dent then confronts corrupt cops and mafias, and decides their fate by flipping a coin, pushing Det. Ramirez, Dean has Lt. Gordon's family as his hostage. Joker, in the other hand declares that he will rule and anyone stay in Gotham at nightfall will be subject to his rule. People start evacuate themself, they use ferries since Joker said he will explodes bridges. One ferry is filled with prisoners and other is filled with innocent citizens. Joker sends them package of detonators, and told them if they want to stay alive, they should blow the other ferry. The tense is culminate, Batman should save both ferries, facing Joker and Two Face. Can he manage it?

Comments:

I literally felt hardly to breath while seeing the movie. Tenses were everywhere, and you would not find space to take a deep breath he he, i'm not joking. This is the darkest and the best Batman movie i've ever seen. Heath played as psycho Joker wonderfully, as a matter a fact even better than one played by jack Nicholson. Joker was completely lunatic! He is really frightening and creepy hiksss... The movie duration was about 2.5 hours, long but not even boring. Everybody played their parts wonderfully, i really like the movie, and you should try to see it. Awesome! But make sure no children allowed, they have so many dangerous and harsh scenes, you will not want your children to see or even imitate those, believe me, this movie definitely not for children!
Oh ya, and please! KEEP YOUR FEET DOWN!!! You don't know how annoying when people trembling their feet on someone else seat! I felt it, and i hate that!

Fun facts:
  • Adrien Brody and Robin William publicly announced that they are interested in Joker role.
  • Matt Damon is director's first choice to play Harvey Dent but turn it down.
  • The first Batman movie with no Batman on the title.
  • Katie Holmes also turns down offer to play Rachel Dawes role.
  • While filming on the streets of Chicago in April 2007, it was carried out under the fake movie called "Rory's First Kiss". Fliers regarding the filming carried this fake title, complete with a fake "RFK" logo for the movie and an address for the film's production offices.
  • To prepare his role, Heath Ledger lived in a hotel alone for one month formulating the character's voice, posture, and phsycology, and kept a diary in which he recorded Joker's tought and feelings as a guidance of his performance.
  • Heath Ledger's sudden death on January 22, 2008 prompted immediate speculation as to the state of this film. Late the same day, Warner Bros. released a statement declaring that Ledger had completed all his scenes and post-production work, thus making the Joker the actor's final completed appearance in a film.
  • Sir Michael Caine said Heath performance is topped Jack Nicholson. He said Heath's Joker is really scary phsychopath. This is based on the scene when Joker visits Wayne Manor, Caine never met Heath before, and frightening to see him as a Joker made him forget his lines.
  • Theaters accrosed US opens at 3 AM and 6 AM to accomodate explosive movie goers.
  • imdb.com and wikipedia.com

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One word for this movie: AWESOME!

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