After running through all London (Covent Garden, Piccadilly, Soho, British Museum, etc) I decided to buy a ticket at an awfully expensive Leicester Square theatre (over 10 £ !!!) to see Batman – the Dark Knight.
Reflecting on the other choice (spending 19 quid on a fancy balcony seat) I am still rather frustrated. There was a real limitation of space, can’t put my feet anywhere, it was hot and had kind of weird angle to the screen. I don’t know what almost 25,- Euro had bought me, but this .. not worth it, and unfortunately had maybe some effect on the film.
The film (no spoiler alert promise!) is obviously and along with all the critics fantastically made, really good picture, tremendous sound and everything (like from a cinematographic point of view) is really really good. But the characters and how the story flows puts a contrast to that. The story never spins around, has any remarkable twists and turns, no paces and lacks of sort of kind glorifying moments (at least none of the scene had such kind of effect on me as for example Mission Impossible II had, when John Woo lets his doves fly around of Tom is jumping out of a skyscraper leaving his girl behind).
Even (maybe a bit spoiler alert now!) when coming up to the “decision sequence”, deciding which way to go to save her/him; there’s no building up to that decision, no controversy, just mounting your super-duper motorbike and off-u-go. I think there could have been so much more out of this. Whereas I could feel Bruce’s suffering and disturbance within himself in the first part, I could see nothing in this one. I hoped when he has is scene with Rachel and kissing her, but no … no popp, no nothing of an emotional something.
Turning to Heath! Yes he is good, wonderful and so on … . He tackles the task becoming as well as establishing a new joker bravely (not an easy one having Jack Nicholson as permanent stigma in your head), and he succeeds in doing so. But all the tremendous roars about an OSCAR. Mhmm .. I don’t know. Maybe I have to see it again on BluRay (@Peter Stronghold: are u buying that one?) and give him another chance to show me more subtle characteristics.
All in all a good movie, yet hated the atmosphere within the cinema. See it if you like Batman, but yet there are more intense and more ground shattering big blast smashing dark action movies.
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