Yeah here is my shocked face.
The Dark Knight doesn't hit theaters until July 18th, but Rolling Stone got first crack at it and Peter Travers wrote up a glowing review.
Heads up: a thunderbolt is about to rip into the blanket of bland we call summer movies. The Dark Knight, director Christopher Nolan's absolute stunner of a follow-up to 2005's Batman Begins, is a potent provocation decked out as a comic-book movie. Feverish action? Check. Dazzling spectacle? Check. Devilish fun? Check.
I can only speak superlatives of Ledger, who is mad-crazy-blazing brilliant as the Joker … If there's a movement to get him the first posthumous Oscar since Peter Finch won for 1976's Network, sign me up. Ledger's Joker has no gray areas — he's all rampaging id.
Every actor brings his A game … Michael Caine purrs with sarcastic wit as Bruce's butler … Morgan Freeman radiates tough wisdom as Lucius Fox. Gary Oldman is so skilled that he makes virtue exciting as Jim Gordon … Eckhart earns major props for scarily and movingly portraying the DA's transformation into the dreaded Harvey Two-Face, an event sparked by the brutal murder of a major character.
(See the entire review at my source, but I believe there are a few spoilers at the Rolling Stone link. I didn't want to be spoiled, so I didn't check it out.)
I'm still psyched about this movie. I might actually drag my lazy ass to an actual theater to see it, instead of waiting 'til it comes out on DVD or getting it on Pay-Per-View. Bah! Imagine that! Me getting off my ass! The world might end!
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The Dark Knight doesn't hit theaters until July 18th, but Rolling Stone got first crack at it and Peter Travers wrote up a glowing review.
Heads up: a thunderbolt is about to rip into the blanket of bland we call summer movies. The Dark Knight, director Christopher Nolan's absolute stunner of a follow-up to 2005's Batman Begins, is a potent provocation decked out as a comic-book movie. Feverish action? Check. Dazzling spectacle? Check. Devilish fun? Check.
I can only speak superlatives of Ledger, who is mad-crazy-blazing brilliant as the Joker … If there's a movement to get him the first posthumous Oscar since Peter Finch won for 1976's Network, sign me up. Ledger's Joker has no gray areas — he's all rampaging id.
Every actor brings his A game … Michael Caine purrs with sarcastic wit as Bruce's butler … Morgan Freeman radiates tough wisdom as Lucius Fox. Gary Oldman is so skilled that he makes virtue exciting as Jim Gordon … Eckhart earns major props for scarily and movingly portraying the DA's transformation into the dreaded Harvey Two-Face, an event sparked by the brutal murder of a major character.
(See the entire review at my source, but I believe there are a few spoilers at the Rolling Stone link. I didn't want to be spoiled, so I didn't check it out.)
I'm still psyched about this movie. I might actually drag my lazy ass to an actual theater to see it, instead of waiting 'til it comes out on DVD or getting it on Pay-Per-View. Bah! Imagine that! Me getting off my ass! The world might end!
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