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    The Dark Night


    Adam's Rating : 9     Rotten Rating : 94     Review Date : 2/9/09 6:12 PM        Bookmark and Share

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    I was pleasantly surprised by this movie. I had heard that it got tremendous reviews and that Heath Ledger was fantastic but I really didn't expect it to be as good as it was. For those of you that don't like movies with superhero backdrops, the comic book aspect of this movie was rather subtle and what is front and center is a hypnotic thriller.

    Gone from the original franchise is the over-the-top cartoonish storylines and characters. That may have worked in the first movie (thanks to Nicholson) but by the 4th movie it was a joke. In fact, if you took away the Batman backdrop this movie would probably be considered for more awards than it has been so far.

    One thing I didn't get was why they felt the need to add some post-processing to Batman's voice. I couldn't understand a damn thing that Commish Gordon said for either movie but they felt the need to make Christian Bale sound like Darth Vader's brother?

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