I have been waiting for this movie to come out ever since Warner Bros. announced that a Batman Begins sequel was in the works. Now The Dark Knight is in theatres everywhere and I absolutley love it. The movie begins with the Joker's guys robbing a mafia-owned bank and the excitement goes on from there. The basic story throughout the movie is Batman and the GCPD trying to stop The Joker from causing anarchy all over Gotham City. Christian Bale gives a better performance as Batman and Bruce Wayne by showing the toll that being Batman can have to a man. Morgan Freeman also makes his character more emotional and centered while Gary Oldman gives the best performance from all of the supporting cast as Gorden. The only weak acting in the movie came from Maggie Gyllenhal. She came off as to much like Katie Holmes. Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent (and later Two-Face) gives an amazing performance as a guy who's war on crime takes a turn for the worst. In one scene Harvey says to Bruce "you either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become a villian" and when Harvey transformes into Two-Face that statement was brought to the front of my mind as I watched his scenes. Eckhart's Two-Face is more real and disturbing than Tommy Lee Jones's Two-Face from Batman Forever. Of course I can't talk about this movie if I don't bring up Heath Ledger's role as The Joker. His performance in this movie is the best one from the entire cast and he all but deserves an Oscar for this role. He made the Joker more psicotic, disturbing, and realistic than Jack Nicholson's Joker from the original 1989 Batman movie. In closing, great acting, a great story, and one of the best villianous performances of the decade makes The Dark Knight one of the best movies I have ever seen in my life.

Go see it and form your own opinion about it. This is just my opinion.