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The Dark Knight

The Grand Theater
Excellent
This movie has layers/ There were aspects of it I thoroughly enjoyed and thought were well done. Then there were other areas. I'll start with them. Dialogue and casting in the beginning were horrible. The moob soldiers were so stereotypical it was eye rolling worthy. I found myself a few times saying "Please tell me your going to do better than this"Thankfully they did and the problem turned out to be not all the actors in the movie, just one. Christian Bale was the worst Batman ever, I hated, I mean hated his "Batman" voice. Everyone else was great, Morgan freeman is always good, and the old "Alfred guy" always good. Christian Bale was just a let down. However Heath Ledger had an incredible performance (I'm not just saying that because he's dead, I don't care that he's dead, he did a good job.) I found myself enjoying the movie every minute that Christian Bale didn't talk. the action was excellent and exciting, and the most interesting scenes involved the joker. Another problem though is that the DA's character got much weaker to me toward the second half of the movie. I thought the story was very good, I like dthe plot twists and the unexpected extensions to the story. A led to B led to C but didn't neccessarly end at C, it lead to F,W, and then finally Z where it ended nicely.

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