The Dark Knight
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The new Batman movie, "The Dark Knight" is the most solid film i watched so far this year. It exceeded the expectation i hold for the movie, even with several rather good superhero movies i caught recently.
In term of action, certainly you won't be disappointed. The noisy and spectacular explosion, the car chase, the melee combat, etc all without the feel of excessive CG effects.
I like most Christopher Nolan movies, for his strength in the capability to portray the depth of human traumas, story and drama for his characters. So while the film has considerable amount of action, i think the biggest contribution to the film's success is it capability to pull you in with clever presentation of the cliche "good versus evil" theme. In one scene, Joker implies that it was the self-righteous people who created the evils when they handed down their judgment - so whatever Batman did (lawful good intentions) just "complete me".
The last notable thing that make the movie so good is the Joker character by Heath Ledger. It's one of the most memorable villains in my book. Not only he is evil, but he makes you feel he's really chaotically evil, threatening, mad, but also a genius with deep understanding of human soul and how to manipulate them. And yet, he would make you laughs with his jokes...