Jonny Atlas Writes

Now, I’m not going to make it a regular practice of writing movie reviews on here. Everyone already does it, and many do it far better and far more diligently than I care to. You want reviews? Go to Rotten Tomatoes, MRQE or Filmcritic.com. I’m only writing this because I have no choice.

Seriously. This movie held me at gunpoint and forced me to tell everyone that it is fucking awesome.

Scratch that.

Amazing.

This film is first and foremost the Batman I always wanted on the big screen. This is the ferocious Batman I read about in novels as a kid, the Batman who beat the shit out of Superman in Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight series, and - in many ways - this is the Batman who never was.

What Christopher Nolan did in this film eclipses anything and everything before it. Even Frank Miller’s Batman has some things to learn from this film.

And this isn’t just some comic book movie. This is a film. Christopher Nolan is batting 100 right now. He hasn’t made a movie I didn’t love. Despite my love for everything he has done, this movie makes them all look like shit. It’s that fucking good.

What truly amazed me (aside from everything about the goddamed film, because it’s just fucking incredible) was how incredible all of the actors were. Heath Ledger was, of course, un-fucking-believable. He was in-goddamn-human. It was easily one of the best performances I have ever seen from any actor ever. EVER!!! He wasn’t there on the screen. The Joker was, and he was larger than life.

Ledger wasn’t the only one, though. Seriously, I forgot Gary Oldman was Lt. Gordon until the credits rolled. Straight up FORGOT! He was just Lt. James Gordon up there. Gary Oldman didn’t exist for me either. Christian Bale, Aaron Eckhart, Sir Michael Caine… forget about it. They were all incredible. There’s no way that many great performances could come out of one film, other than the influence of an incredible director and an incredible script.

Just go see this movie. See it this weekend. It deserves to topple Spiderman 3. Shit, it deserves to crush Titanic. This is easily one of the best movies I have seen in a very long time.

I’m looking forward to getting my hands on the script this week and reading it right before I go see it again on Sunday. lol.

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