The last movie I was looking forward to seeing really let me down. I was further let down when I read that the new Indiana Jones movie crossed the three hundred million dollar mark. We as a nation have been duped to pay for a name attached to the worst movie of the summer as Speilberg laughed all the way to the bank.

I saw Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk and Get Smart with lesser expectations and was very pleased that all three were good movies. You see, the people that make these movies are not moonlighting to make them. Making movies is their job and going to see them should have a certain level of expectation. When you go to Taco Bell you know you will get the food quickly, it will be greasy and you will have the shits later. As you go to better restaurants, you expect better things. I expected to see the fourth Indiana Jones movie and I think they made the second Hudson Hawk instead.

But I digress.

The structure of The Dark Knight was amazing. it was a two act movie. The first act had to do witht he rise and fall of Harvey Dent. This took the bulk of the movie and it was a mesmerising hour and forty-five minutes when I just sat back and was dazzled by everything. The acting, the directing, the cinematography, the make-up, the costumes and the special effects. It all worked together to form a massive plot between the cops and the mobsters, the heroes and the villains and even America and China.

Suffice it to say there was a lot going on and it all fit together to form and amazing puzzle.

The first climax led to the fall of Harvey Dent. It was a time when you could finally take a breath. It felt like the end of the movie since the first act lasted so long but the surprise was there was more story to tell.

The Dark Knight is my kind of story. It is messy. The type of mess that only corruption can create. Every angle is the result of one angle and leads right into the next angle.

The second act was owned by The Joker. His plan is that he has no plan. His scheme is that there is no scheme and let me tell you this: this was not your Jack Nicholson's Joker. Heath Ledger made the great performance by Nicholson in the 1989 Batman look like the afternoon special version of The Joker. In the 1989 version, there was a backstory for The Joker. There was no backstory for the 2008 version and that made it even more intriguing and creepy.

It truly is our loss as movie fans that we no longer have Heath Ledger. He would have been wonderful in the next Batman and he could have even given us a great movie in a movie based on the backstory of his Joker. There was no name other than Joker. There was no plan other than chaos. There was not a moment when you didn't want to see what he would do or say next. It was a wonderful performance and it will be a lasting tribute to the immense talent Heath Ledger was in life.

Most movies have three acts. The Dark Knight only had two and there was a reason for it.

The next one will start the third act of The Dark Knight, which was written with a brilliance that is seldom seen in movies in this day and age.

This is a movie to be cherished. The PG-13 rating is misleading. It is a bit dark for the younger kids and the plot was very involved and possibly a bit out of reach for younger viewers. The make-up might lead to nightmares.

As if all of that wasn't great enough, there was a preview for the fourth Terminator before the movie started so that is the next movie I can't wait to see and that will be coming in summer 2009.

I also cannot wait for the next Batman movie as it should pick right up where The Dark Knight left off.

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