The Dark Knight Reviews

“The best way to sum up the sheer brilliance that is The Dark Knight is to paraphrase a saying from the Comic Book Guy in The Simpsons: Best. Superhero movie. Ever!” - Sean

“The movie is relentlessly paced, as Nolan constantly pushes the film with nail-biting action sequences and resonant dialogue exchanges.” - Adam

“Nolan hasn’t just created another comic book film, but a well crafted solid engrossing thriller”
- Wilson

“A drama about hard moral choices, ‘The Dark Knight’ is ‘The Godfather’ of superhero movies — or, at least, ‘The Departed.” - Tobias

“With only three short words comprising the film’s enigmatic title, it also boasts three epic claims to fame: the role of a lifetime for the late Heath Ledger, one of the best films of 2008 and one of the greatest superhero films of all time.” - Carla

“Far from offering traditional summer escapism…a brainy, action-packed morality play meant to throttle the audience, body and mind, for a solid 152 minutes and haunt them for days and weeks later.” - Mike

“The Dark Knight might be the first superhero movie that exudes a palpable sense of dread and menace that tugs at our nerves in a way that both disturbs and delights us.” - George

“Christopher Nolan’s latest exploration of the Batman mythology steeps its muddled plot in so much murk that the Joker’s maniacal nihilism comes to seem like a recurrent grace note.” - Matt Loder

“The Dark Knight is even more blazingly ambitious than its predecessor, the 2005 Batman Begins.”
- Joe Gibron

“The film is so relentlessly bleak that, paradoxically, its blackness is not given its full due. But this comic-book movie is more disturbing, and has more freakish power, than anything else I’ve seen all year.”
- Steven

“During the summer of 2008, at least, the price of a single movie ticket isn’t likely to buy more on-screen entertainment value and cinematic ambition than The Dark Knight.” - John

“Believe every ounce of the hype surrounding The Dark Knight.”
- Peter

“Supremely satisfying for about a dozen different reasons. A great film.”
- Scott

“Delves so deeply into the darkness that lurks in the hearts of men that it comes almost as a shock, bordering on euphoria, to find that it maintains a tenacious grip onto hope in the human potential for good.” - Morgenstern

“Like a symphony where every note is exactly where it needs to be, or a painting without a brushstroke wasted, The Dark Knight is an unabashed, unashamedly great film.” - Pete Vonder

“Ledger makes the Joker his, imbuing the character with such menace and genuine insanity I finally got a sense of what talent he really had.” - Lissa

“Watching The Dark Knight is like gazing into a mirror on a waning moon night: chilling and mesmerizing.”
- Glen

“Pitched at the divide between art and industry, poetry and entertainment, The Dark Knight goes darker and deeper than any Hollywood movie of its comic-book kind.” - Eugene

“It’s a movie about America, terrorism and the rule of law; about heroism and human nature. The dude in the bat suit is just window-dressing.” - Manhola

“Quite simply, when you see The Dark Knight, you’re going to realize how truly awful the first wave of Batman films were.” - Tom

“Nolan lets the film’s spectacular action scenes seem like the natural consequences of the conflicts between characters, conflicts that build until Gotham becomes less a setting than a stage for a conflict between tortured good and contented chaos.” - Kevin

“Ledger’s performance reigns over Nicholson’s by taking evil to a new level. If you don’t see this in theatres, then you are missing out on one of the biggest and best films in history.” - Ethan

“Dark Knight is epic, frightening, unforgettable, unstoppable, and every inch a classic Batman trial, brought to life with disquieting, mouth-slashing sincerity.” - Brian

“…if, like me, you’ve always thought the Paul Dini/Bruce Timm animated version was tops, you should be pretty happy with what Christopher Nolan has done this time around.” - Tony Luke

“An explosively provocative [film]. … Exhilaratingly straightforward action sequences matched by moral complexity of a sort not usually associated with comic-book movie franchises.” - Lawrence

“The whole thing would be worthwhile if for nothing else than the late Ledger’s brilliant and creepy performance as the unhinged, deranged villain. Hopefully, his achievement will be remembered when film-award season comes around.” - J.Toppman

“Under the fun summer blockbuster sheen lives an unnerving, serious, complex and ambitious crime epic about three good men with the courage to stand against evil.” - D.Stevens

“The Dark Knight succeeds as an action film, character study and metaphor for our own terrorism-obsessed time. Even the hoary device of suggesting a bond between the outcast hero and the outrageous criminal, misused in so many films, makes sense.” - McKarthy

“Dark Knight is epic, frightening, unforgettable, unstoppable, and every inch a classic Batman trial, brought to life with disquieting, mouth-slashing sincerity.” - Medley