Nerds That Geek Movie Review: 'The Dark Knight'

Written by Scott Edwards

It can be hard to envision a world that does not have some sort of chaos taking place. No matter where you live, you always hear about someone or something happening around the world that makes you shake your head. As long as it is contained to a sliver of the world, it does not seem to be as bad, but when things start to escalate and it shows up on your doorstep, you have to face the facts that it is here and here to stay. It takes some getting used to for sure, but when you are able to figure out what is causing the chaos, you are able to find a way to fight it off as well. It is an opponent that will not give up, but when it comes down to it, it is something that can be defeated, and all it takes is one person to start the movement. 

With the streets of Gotham starting to calm down and with a new district attorney on the streets, the crime in the city might actually go away for good. Harvey Dent will not be intimidated by the crime lords of Gotham, and he takes them head on and with help from Jim Gordon, he may be unstoppable. But Harvey knows that there is something going on behind the scenes of the Major Crimes Unit that Gordon runs and wants to meet with the Batman before everything is said and done. With a new menace running on the streets, knocking over the mob run banks and leaving all of the marked bills behind in the vaults, Harvey knows that there is somebody on the inside and that there is only one person that will be able to figure it out. 

The Joker has revealed his face to Gotham’s underworld and wants to help them as best that he can. Being a master of chaos, there is no one that will be able to stop him when he puts his mind to something. Crashing a meeting full of the city's top mob bosses, Joker puts his plan on the table and knows that he can make a difference when it comes to fighting the Batman. Although nobody believes that this lunatic will be able to get anything done, they call the Joker into action when their money launderer is brought back home from China. Needing a change from their normal tactics, the Joker brings chaos into the realm and making sure that Batman knows that he is the target, he slowly turns the city of Gotham against the Dark Knight. With no pattern to go off of, Batman is forced to resort to drastic levels to find the madman who will keep killing the innocent until the Batman's true identity is revealed. 

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Jim Gordon however, is able to devise a plan that will bring the Joker out of the woodwork to take his shot at killing the Caped Crusader. As a police escort sets out to take Harvey Dent to the county jail, Joker is there to bring down Gotham’s D.A. who has admitted to being the Batman. But as everybody knows, Harvey is not the Batman, and the Dark Knight takes to the streets to finally bring the Joker to justice. At long last, the Joker is brought into custody, but not everything is what it seems as Harvey and his girlfriend Rachel are kidnapped and with only a chance to save one of them, the police and Batman have to decide who is more valuable to the city. Harvey is the main choice, but he is left scarred from an exploding warehouse in more than one way. With his girlfriend dead, he does not have a reason to go on living the clean life that has made him so sought after and adored. With an extra push from the Joker, Harvey becomes what he has vowed to keep off of the streets and makes sure that everyone that gets in his way know how personal his fight really is.

The second installment of the new rebooted series and wow, it is the best Batman movie I have ever seen. With darkness continuing to fall over Gotham, it is hard to believe that anyone would live there, much less get out alive. But the White Knight, Harvey Dent, has been able to change the perception around the city and with him leading the charge, no villain will stand in his way. That is until the Joker is let off of his leash and starts bringing his form of chaos to the city where nobody knows what he will do next, other than the people of the city will suffer until Batman reveals who he really is to everyone. There are so many good storylines in this movie and I only hit on a little bit of what actually happened, but the acting in this movie is beyond fantastic. 

If I were held at gunpoint and forced to come up with my favorite character, it would have to be Harvey Dent since he was the knight in shining armor for the city, before being brought down to the depths of the underworld and ready to take anybody’s life that gets in his way. Second favorite would be Alfred since he was a major scene stealer in this movie and with good reason, since when he brings up things that happened in his past life you're left with chills, like what he said about how some men just want to see the world burn. Well, there is on more movie in this trilogy and I really hate to finish this series, since I have been enjoying it all over again for a couple of weeks now.

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