I had the pleasure of seeing The Dark Knight this weekend, and I could just about frap myself silly over Heath Ledger.
I have never seen him in anything else, so I had no comparison, but his wicked portrayal of The Joker has me wanting more. What can I say, I love crazy?

This is the review that a friend of mine gave The Dark Knight:

I paid the cine-vid a visit over the weekend, now whilst i’d like to talk about how I very nearly won a Nintendo DS on the 50p a go block game in the foyer, I shan’t. And I do well here, because I very nearly won that prize, and with Odeon Staff watching, too.

Hmm, In actual fact, i’d gone to see the Dark Knight, or much to the missus’ amusement, ‘The Dark Knig’ - (according to our ticket stubs). After giving her a lecture about racial hatred and the need for equality we walked into the cinema, Screen 8 I believe, and sat down and watched some shitty trailers before the feature - none of which really stood out.

Then our film started.

From start to finish, the film pumped eye candy. Not that this film needed glitzy action sequences to make it any more enjoyable, but this was Batman Vs The Joker and you’d sorta feel robbed if there weren’t a few explosions, etc.

The storyline was intelligent, very intellingent. The twists were merely set up for bigger twists, which rolled up into one big fajita, forming the Joker’s masterplan.

Huh, the Joker. Blimey, what a performance. And I say that without regard as to whether Heath Ledger is alive or dead, I couldn’t care to be honest. I’ve always thought he was quite a competent, reasonable actor in the big films in which i’d seen him in, but he was quite fantastic in the role of the winged crusaders arch-foe. The constant laughing (obviously), mixed with the grunting and some sort on underlying craziness, (and some sort of weird lip smacking due to his disfigurement) was pulled off without any worry as to whether it lived up to Jack Nicholson’s role in the 89′ Burton version. In actual fact, it surpassed it.

May I add, when people go on about Batman Begins as being a bit jenk - then i’d like to say that’s bullshit. Christopher Nolan (the director) pulled this franchise from the cinematic dustbin, I mean, Val Kilmer and George Clooney with their homosexual, nipples on batsuits, ultra dire performances as the ‘Bat’, made my eyes bleed. After Burton finished with Batman Returns anything that followed had quite obviously lost that ‘Dark touch’.

Batman Begins dragged us away form that utter horeshit, and now with foundations set the follow up with Dark Knight is a Comic book to Big screen masterpiece. Bale as the Batman gives a great perfomance as the troubled, nowhere to turn hero. The fact that some of his decisons actually result in people being executed makes you understand the doubt he constantly feels in himself.

With a supporting cast including Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gary Oldman and Aaron Eckhart this film was always going to have Empire magazine and the like frapping like dirty, fucking tramps.

Hugely impressive.

Go see this film.

Yeah, go see the film, now!