The Dark Knight [Batman] [2 Disk Special Edition] [Blu-ray] [2008] [Region Free]

The Dark Knight is exactly what hollywood has been missing until a film of this magnitude was released, with the amount of half arsed, money making, greedy film companies taking your hard earned money for over hyped rubbish, you don't see many films that really were written and made with such passion as this film is, and it delivers for the people. Everyone involved had worked there arse off to make a masterpiece like this film and the final outcome prooves that beyond a doubpt. Most of the writers, producers, and filmers biggest example is steven speilberg abuse there name with the trash they have delivered to us in recent years.Christopher Nolan is a brilliant story teller and producer of films and makes sure he delivers the most brilliant story, picture and sound he can possibly deliver to people. As we will see him do this year when The Dark Knight Rises is released and will conclude a brilliant Batman trilogy.Heath Ledger won an academy award for his role as "Joker" in The Dark Knight ledger is amazing, brilliant, scary, and to be honest an academy award is not enough recognition for a performance of that caliber, so many actors/actresses spew out the same characteristics in every single film they appear in and get to call themselves actors movie after movie and get paid ridiculous amounts of money to do so.The Dark Knight is the most awesome, action packed, twisted adventure, you can ever hope to see, and the most well written and acted film i have seen hollywood release, in a long time.A short overview of the film:Batman (Bruce Wayne) raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to distroy the remaining criminal organizations that corrupt the police, lawyers, and which also plague and terrorise the city's streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as "The Joker".This film is hands down the way batman and was always ment to be envisioned and portrayed, and is defently one of the top 10 films to see before you die. If you have not seen this film then do yourself a favour and buy it on Blu-Ray watch it and be amazed at how trully brilliant this film is.The action scenes where shot in IMAX (the best picture quality available) and all other scenes are shot in 70mm lens (2nd best picture quality available) making this a brilliant film to watch and enjoy in the most crisp high definition experiance on BLU-RAY, mix that with Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound and your in for one hell of a treat.

Bought this for our grandson who is in a Batman phase. He thoroughly enjoyed it.

Very good quality on the Blu-ray and DVD. However, Disc 2 of bonus feature are not playable in my Blu-ray player, not sure why.

'Why so serious?''The Dark Knight' (2008) is a film of treachery and deceit which, in some ways, is marred by its very complexity. The effects are spectacular and, given the lack of realism in comic-book super-hero films, fitting for the subject-matter. The script tends to be somewhat mundane but is rescued by the performances, especially that of Heath Ledger as The Joker.Some reviewers, I note, dismiss the film as trite but I think they misjudge it. It tries too hard to trick the audience and produce confusion and so, to quote the Joker, the audience might ask, 'Why so serious?' In many ways it takes itself very seriously to confuse rather than simply amuse the audience. As a result it improves on a second viewing. It is filled with apparent non-sequiturs and ill-explained events. For example, the Chinese accountant Lau seems fashioned to be the archetype for new villain for the US public who've already worked their way through German and English 'nasties' ( in the masterpiece creation of the Gruber brothers in Die Hard 1 and Die Hard 3 the creation is blended by using English actors). However, the whole episode of Lau could have been cut out without affecting the main plot. There's a 'clever' reference to 'Two-Face' which is never exploited. 'The Batman' (why the article?) flits in and out with ease but, as expected, although shunning (on the whole) powerful weapons, is never floored. People die and then come alive again. Considering the miserable display of human nature throughout 95% of the film one might well agree with the Joker's misanthropic viewpoint, which makes the ferry sequence too difficult to swallow.However, the acting rescues all. Michael Caine, Gary Oldman and Morgan Freeman perform with their usual competence, which puts them in the upper echelon of most film stars. Christopher Bale achieves an air of menace as Batman and an air of irritating complacency as Bruce Wayne. Aaron Eckhart produces an excellent portrayal of ambivalence - early on he's so praised you're sure he must be up to no good and later on he behaves so abominably you're sure he's going to come through in the end. However, it is Heath Ledger who steals the show - how fitting as the number of times the Joker appears to outwit the forces of law and order before the 'deus ex machina' routine spoils his scheme. Only by 'playing dirty' does Batman etc. bring him down. He verges on the over-playing like Alan Rickman does in 'Die Hard' and 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves' and they both stay enough inside acting to dominate the film and walk off with the honours.To sum it up 'The Dark Knight' is easily worth 4 stars and almost claws its way into 5.