The Dark Knight

Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: July 18, 2008

8.9	USER SCORE Universal acclaim based on 6733 Ratings

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doomdragonFeb 20, 2015

Il peggior Joker che abbia mai visto, niente a che spartire con Jack Nicholson, e poi vogliamo parlare di Due Facce? Un personaggio buttato lì solo per riempire una mezz'oretta di film in più

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andreekaMar 7, 2015

most overrated movie i've ever seen in entire my life. it's not even close to classic movies such as the godfather, the lord of the rings, casablanca, citizen kane and etc.

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ProfessionalProJun 30, 2017

What the F*CK did I just watch?! By far the worst movie I've ever seen in my life, I puked so much and cried because of how awful it was, this isn't Suicide Squad??? Why is Jared Leto not The Joker? Who the hell is Heath Ledger?! This makesWhat the F*CK did I just watch?! By far the worst movie I've ever seen in my life, I puked so much and cried because of how awful it was, this isn't Suicide Squad??? Why is Jared Leto not The Joker? Who the hell is Heath Ledger?! This makes no sense whatsoever, terrible movie with horrible acting and writing.… Expand

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FanofBatmanJul 20, 2015

I'm a big Batman fan, but this movie was - especially after the relatively good Batman Begins - a big disappointment. As a fan you feel it from the beginning, if it's a good Batman film or not; when you here the score and see the charatersI'm a big Batman fan, but this movie was - especially after the relatively good Batman Begins - a big disappointment. As a fan you feel it from the beginning, if it's a good Batman film or not; when you here the score and see the charaters acting. But it was the first time in my life that I felt asleep. There was no good story, no atmosphere and nothing special. The portrait of the comic characters was not convincing or interesting. I used to like actors like Caine, Oldman, Bale, Ledger or Eckhart, but not in this film. Nothing really fits and you sit there, eating your popcorn and hope, that the film will end soon. Production desgin, costumes had been boring in my opinion. The worst Batman film ever. Even Schumacher's Batman and Robin had been funnier or TDKR, where Batman droped an H-Bomb out of Gotham before sitting in Venice and having a drink with Catwomans alter Ego.… Expand

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BradleyRobertsAug 2, 2015

According to IMDb; the dark knight is better the apocalypse now,
citizen Kane, raging bull and 2001: a space odyssey and the forth
greatest film of all time. I think anyone with any understanding of film can see this is completely crazy. IAccording to IMDb; the dark knight is better the apocalypse now,
citizen Kane, raging bull and 2001: a space odyssey and the forth
greatest film of all time. I think anyone with any understanding of film can see this is completely crazy. I don't hate this movie and I quite enjoyed it but it's very far from being any kind of masterpiece.

When destructing Christopher Nolan's movie's I like to use David Fincher's terminology; Fincher theory is that there are films then there are movies. A film is using cinema as art and not just entertainment, such as; the godfather, mirror, There will be blood. A movie would be something of a guilty pleasure: the game, the raid, the dark knight.

So then why is it the dark knight is so popular? Nolan separates his movies from the average blockbuster by giving them a sense of realism and reliability. The most obvious example of this is his very limited use of CGI and use of practical effects. At a time when CGI is common use in most blockbusters as it is cheaper and easier; you can see how audiences can be awed by this.

Probably the thing that most separates his movies; is how he chooses to
make the viewer feel empowered. Where most Batman and superhero
villains have been cliché and even cheesy; In the dark knight (and the
other dark knight movies) the villains feel a lot more like modern day
terrorists then the average comic book villain. Post 911 you can
imagine the impact this can have on people and the realism it gives.
Though in Nolan's determination to make the viewer feel empowered he
sacrifices making the dark knight anything more then a movie; he makes everything extremely obvious and doesn't leave anything for the viewer to work out for themselves.

At times it can even be patronizing. During the part of the
movie where people are being killed until batman takes off his mask; he
is constantly being blamed by everyone, even one of the officers does so. I think this is a testament to how much Nolan trusts he's audience and how painstakingly obvious he thinks he has to make everything to get a point across.

Even within expectations of it being a Nolan super hero movie, the dark knight still has faults. The main one being how anti climatic the ending of the movie was, I was expecting some kind of big send off for the joker but instead his send off was brief and unsatisfying. There's also the many the plot holes but I don't have anything new to say on that.

In short Nolan offers somewhat charming comic book movie, that has all his usual traits; good and bad. And despite it's charm, at it's core it's a rather one dimensional Hollywood blockbuster; with the popcorn audience as it's target demographic. It may be the "greatest super hero movie of all time" but that doesn't mean a lot.… Expand

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wolfpacruleJan 22, 2016

Complete garbage, the story is weak and non-coherent. Why am I watching this complete pig dropping when the he could have eradicated the entire league of shadow from the first movie and then none of these villain could have been released.Complete garbage, the story is weak and non-coherent. Why am I watching this complete pig dropping when the he could have eradicated the entire league of shadow from the first movie and then none of these villain could have been released. People love comic story with characters that never die. Oh yeah lets make a main character who does not like to kill and because of that naiveté, he created more villains who by the way are immortals because they never die. why do americans like this kind of story? because they are idiots and dumb.… Expand

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MorganFreeman69Jun 11, 2017

it is a very bad movie, the joker was abhorrently depicted and the movie was overall really **** The acting was terrible, however, the best part of the movie was the Godly Presence of Him, Morgan Freeman, of which allowed me to survive

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TheGreatCriticAug 16, 2017

This is by far one of the worst movies of all time, I never liked batman because he has no super powers, all he has is money and weapons there is no fun because that means there is less explosions and that's sad.

The story is horrendous,This is by far one of the worst movies of all time, I never liked batman because he has no super powers, all he has is money and weapons there is no fun because that means there is less explosions and that's sad.

The story is horrendous, it's weak compare to the previous batman films, it has no style and it isn't fun like batman forever, the movie tried to be deep but no one cares because I as an audiance member want to see batman beat homeless people up, I don't care that batman has emotions, I wanted action and explosions, but even in the action scenes the movie fails completely because they use pratical effects, Christopher Nolan should know that we use computers for a reason now but he's such a pretentious dork so there is no intensity.

The characters were awful, they were depressing and not fun, I remember the good old days where super heroes were fun and quirky like in batman forever, batman was too deep of a character to be interesting and honestly Christian Bale isn't fun enough to be batman, they should've pick Marlon Wayans, he fits the character perfectly and the vilain was forgettable.

The dark knight fails on every single level, the story is way too intelligent to be fun, the characters are way too deep to be considered good, the soundtrack is too depressing and the effects look to real to be enjoyable, stay away from this objectivily bad film !!!… Expand

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Dostoyevsky3May 9, 2020

These are the many reasons why TDK is one of the worst if not the worst movie ever made. Rachel Dawes is pointless and has no reason to be in this story. She gets no development, no unique personality, no goal in life, and no consistentThese are the many reasons why TDK is one of the worst if not the worst movie ever made. Rachel Dawes is pointless and has no reason to be in this story. She gets no development, no unique personality, no goal in life, and no consistent motivation. She is just another damsel in distress who must either be saved or dies. She is just another one of Nolan's weak and shallow female characters. It is unfortunate because she is the only main female character in this wretched movie. Nolan only uses her to make the other characters suffer in the end. Dawes also has a poor love triangle conflict that serves no good purpose to the plot. I DON'T GIVE A CRAP ABOUT THIS STUPID CONFLICT. SHE HAS NO GOOD CHEMISTRY WITH ANYONE. WE ARE GIVEN NO REASON TO CARE ABOUT WHO SHE CHOOSES. SHE'S A MORON WHO TELLS BRUCE NOT TO TURN HIMSELF IN OR THEY WON'T BE TOGETHER, BUT WHEN HARVEY TURNS HIMSELF IN, SHE SUDDENLY CHANGES HER MIND AND WRITES A LETTER TELLING BRUCE SHE WANTS HARVEY. WHAT THE FUDGE! ITS LIKE SHE JUST PRETENDED TO LIKE BRUCE TO CRAP ON HIM IN THE END. ALL THE POSSIBILITIES OF CONSISTENT CHARACTER GROWTH FOR BATMAN ARE THROWN OUT OF THE WINDOW. MAKE A STORY OF HOW HE SEES HE DOESN'T ALWAYS NEED TO BE THE HERO AND SHOW THE PEOPLE OF GOTHAM THAT THEY CAN PROTECT THIS CITY. NOPE! A STORY OF HOW HE CHOOSES TO LEAVE HIS OWN NEEDS ASIDE TO HELP OTHERS INSTEAD. NOPE! BATMAN WAS ALREADY WILLING TO SACRIFICE HIMSELF FOR GOTHAM. A STORY ABOUT HOLDING ONTO HOPE AND DOING WHAT IS RIGHT EVEN WHEN SOMEONE YOU LOVED DIED BECAUSE OF IT. NOPE! THE POTENTIAL OF THE LETTER THAT RACHEL SENT IS ALSO THROWN OUT OF THE WINDOW BECAUSE ALFRED ROASTED IT! BATMAN GETS NO MORALLY RIGHT OR CONSISTENT DEVELOPMENT IN THIS WHOLE MESSY MUCK! HARVEY IS JUST ANOTHER MUDDY MORON. HE BELIVES IN JUSTICE AND THEN WANTS TO KILL A CHILD WHO DID NOTHING TO HIM. HARVEY ALSO LISTENS TO EVERYTHING THE JOKER TELLS HIM AFTER THE JOKER LITERALLY BURNED HIM AND KILLED HIS GIRLFRIEND. HE DECIDES TO BLAME IT ON THE PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY TRIED TO SAVE HIM AND RACHEL DAWES. THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN HELPING HIM TO TAKE DOWN THE JOKER THIS WHOLE TIME. HE IMMEDIATELY CHANGES HIS GOAL AND DOESN'T KILL THE JOKER. BULLCRAP! WASTED FORESHADOWING AND POTENTIAL. WOULD'VE BEEN MORE CONSISTENT AND LESS CROWDED IF HARVEY KILLED JOKER AND BECAME THE ACTUAL VILLAIN. BUT EVEN THAT WOULDN'T HAVE SAVED THE MOVIE. MAKE HARVEY A SCHIZOPHRENIC GENIUS WITH RACHEL AS HIS CLEVER CARETAKER. NOPE! BATMAN DOESN'T EVEN HAVE DETECTIVE SKILLS. HE JUST SUDDENLY CRAFTS A RANDOM MACHINE THAT HELPS HIMS TRACK JOKER THROUGH TECHNOLOGY. AN INVENTION WITH NO BUILD UP OR REALISM. AFTER RACHEL'S DEATH, NOLAN DECIDES TO REPEAT THE ENTIRE PLOT ALL OVER AGAIN. JOKER CAUSES CHAOS AND GETS HIS PLANS FOILED JUST TO TELL BATMAN THAT SOMEONE IS IN DANGER. BUT HIS PLAN IS EVEN DUMBER. HIS PLANS DON'T EVEN MAKE SENSE AND AREN'T EVEN WELL EXPLAINED AT ALL. FIRST HE WANTS BATMAN TO REVEAL HIMSELF, THEN HE DOESN'T CARE. HOW COULD HE HAVE KNOWN THE POLICE WOULD BE IDIOTIC ENOUGH TO RELEASE HIM. IF THEY HADN'T STUPIDLY PUT ONE PERSON TO GUARD THE DOOR OF THE MOST DANGEROUS CRIMINAL AND INSTEAD LEFT JOKER ALONE IN THERE, THEN HIS PLAN WOULD'VE BEEN RUINED. IF HARVEY DIED INSTEAD, THEN THAT WOULD BE THE END. EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE FILM IS WORTHLESS. THE WHOLE MOVIE IS WORTHLESS. JOKER DECIDES TO GIVE TWO SHIPS TWO BOMBS, BUT THE PEOPLE HAVE NO REASON TO BELIEVE HE HAS A BOMB OF HIS OWN AND HAVE NO REASON TO BELIEVE HE WOULDN'T JUST TRIGGER IT AFTER THEY BLOW UP ONE OR THE ANOTHER. EVEN IF THEY WERE MORONS, THE CRIMINALS HAVE REASONS FOR BEING CRIMINALS. BATMAN RESCUES JOKER EVEN THOUGH HE LET HIS MENTOR DIE IN THE PREVIOUS FILM. THE MENTOR WHO HELPED HIM TRAIN TO BE THE WAY HE IS. IT IS GOOD THAT RA'S AL GHUL DIED, BUT THE JOKER IS MORE SCREWED UP AND KILLED RACHEL AND A BUNCH OF OTHERS, BUT BATMAN HATES JUSTICE AND MORALITY. BATMAN SAVING JOKER IS UNLOVING TO ALL THOSE PEOPLE THE JOKER KILLED. HE ALREADY HAD A CHANCE TO KILL HIM OR SEVERELY INJURE HIM, BUT RACHEL DIED AND HARVEY GOT HURT BECAUSE HE DIDN'T TAKE THAT CHANCE. THIS IS JUST MORE POTENTIAL CHARACTER GROWTH THROWN OUT THE WINDOW. BATMAN ENDS UP BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR HARVEY'S DEATH ANYWAY. NOT EVEN THAT LED TO CHARACTER GROWTH. CONFLICT WITH JOKER IS LEFT COMPLETELY UNRESOLVED. HE WILL OBVIOUSLY ESCAPE IF HE IS JUST LEFT HANGING THERE. WE SPENT 153 MINUTES OF RUNTIME ACCOMPLISHING NOTHING. JOKER IS FILTHY AND USES NONE OF THE UNIQUE WEAPONS, JOKES, OR PLANS THAT MADE HIM JOKER IN THE FIRST PLACE. MESSAGE OF THE FILM IS LIE TO OTHERS TO MAKE THEM FEEL GOOD ABOUT WHAT THEY BELIEVE. BATMAN HAS NO REASON FOR MAKING THIS DREADFUL MESSAGE BECAUSE ITS ILLOGICAL FOR PRISONERS TO BE RELEASED BY HARVEY'S RUINED REPUTATION. ITS JUST A DUMB DECISION MEANT TO SET UP A SEQUEL. NOLAN FORGOT TO WRITE A PLOT THAT MADE SENSE. THE FILM IS TOO DARK. SCENERY IS EMPTY AND LIFELESS. ACTION IS FORGETTABLE. A FILM THIS AWFUL DOESN'T DESERVE TO BE THIS LONG. DONE!… Expand

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