Without my giving away any plot details, The Dark Knight, which I saw yesterday in Imax, accomplishes a few wonderful and even great things without ever becoming a great movie. First, it poses some serious questions about the nature of the human beast, and even presents a nice little dilemma at the end to test the hypothesis of The Joker, played by the late Heath Ledger.
Which brings up the one great thing in the movie–Heath Ledger’s acting. Ledger takes his character of The Joker to such depths of evil that all other evil figures in film history pale in comparison. The great genius here, with both the writing and the acting, is that The Joker is a rational evil-doer who is presented as being less selfish and self-centered, so to speak, than those who oppose him.
Quite an accomplishment.
Other than that, the movie is overly long and a dark night indeed.
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