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"My secret agent between the Armani suits saw a super private session for The Dark Knight and came out drooling. It will be a great success, he guarantees, the gadgets ( especially the bat-bike, responsible for a acclaimed action sequence ) are crazy and Heath Leger might receive a deserved indication for his Joker, "a mixture of a fool/clown, schizophrenic, sadic and crazy. The guy delivered, got himself into the role and it's unrecognizable. There will be no other Joker after him." In one scene he repeats to Christian Bale's Batman a line from "Brokeback Mountain"(the guy probably confused himself here) "you complete me" - but "in a context of stalker, crazy, scary." Another scene with Ledger/Joker playing dead inside a body bag caused adverse reactions in the audience, for obvious reasons - it will possibly be cut. (I hope not...)


My "Bond" tells more about the somber epic of Chris Nolan:
"It's incredible to create something new and exciting, not only for it's history but in technical terms, nowadays. Many great scenes, impeccable effects. Music and sounds pretty loud, but helping the story. They have a Heart Beat they use in a sensational way (Remember the 2 note theme from the interview with Zimmer!), anticipating the next scene- a psychological trigger ala Jaws. (tan tan tan )


The cast is awesome, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman stealing scenes in which all are present. Maggie Gyllenhaal fantastic replacing Katie Holmes and Aaron Eckhart as a great surprise as the politician with a heart of gold whose personality changes after a horrible accident. Another good astonishment is Eric Roberts as the mobster he knows so well how to do. Christian Bale solid as ever, cool since Bruce Wayne is a rich playboy and Batman is the opposite. The film plays a lot with this duality, all the characters are complex, has ambiguities, very interesting and delicate here.

The humor/comedy is totally dark, the movie is very dark and, in this version, a little too long. But will blow us away."

The movie begins showing the goings on in Gotham City: it's a real mess. There are a lot of fake Batmans: they show ap at crime scenes and get killed. But the true Batman is always in action, and he's not alone: Gotham City has a new District Attorney, Harvey Dent. His girlfriend is Rachel Dawes, who had a relationship with Bruce Wayne (a.k.a. Batman).

Together, Batman and Dent face the crime: when Gambol, the main mob boss, decides to pool all the mob money (billions of dollars) in China and sends Lau (a crooked accountant) to Hong Kong, Batman is able to follow Lau and bring him to Gotham. Dent uses the information taken after his capture to round up a lot of criminals (even Sal Maroni!): a great victory for justice.

But peace does not last: The Joker, a new criminal, reveals himself asking Batman to take his mask off or he'll start killing people. He says he does it for the mob: he wants their money back, and in exchange wants half of it for himself.
The Joker kills some people, but decides to go higher and kidnaps both Rachel Dawes and Harvey Dent: Batman has to decide which one to save.

As part of his plan, Joker gets captured; Batman rushes to Rachel to save her, but the Joker has lied, and he ends up saving Harvey Dent, who loses his mind completely (his face is burnt with gasoline) when he discovers that not only Joker escaped, but has set on fire the money and the police building.

Joker announces that the Mayor has to die, or he'll blow up Gotham's Hospital (with Dent in it). Dent decides to hunt down anyone who was involved in Rachel's kidnap, and kills people too: he finds Maroni and kills him, just after Maroni (worried about Joker's crazyness) has said to Batman where to find the Joker (tą scene widzimy w ''TDK: HBO First Look''). Meanwhile, the clown blows up the hospital.

Now Joker actually runs Gotham City, so he tells people that they have to deal whit him or to leave. Two ships of people leave the metropolis: one full of criminals, and one full of innocents. Joker stops the ships and announces that he'll blow both the ships up at midnight, unless one ship blows the other up (they both have detonators).

Dent finds Commissioner Gordon, who got corrupted (but is still "good") and inevitably led to Rachel's kidnap. Dent threatens him with his gun, but Batman arrives and dives him into a hole in the floor, apparently killing him (o tej scenie opowidal Oldman w jednym z wywiadów). Then Batman decides to go on the run: he wants to pretend he killed the people Dent killed, because he thinks Gotham needs it's ex-D.A.'s image untarnished.

Meanwhile, Joker has failed, and he goes in prison. The End...