With The Dark Knight, the cinematic superhero spectacle comes closest to becoming modern myth, a pulp tragedy with costumed players and elevated stakes and terrible sacrifices. It's the new gold standard for superhero noir.
Sean Axmaker, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
May be the most hopeless, despairing comic-book movie in memory. It creates a world where being a superhero is at best a double-edged sword and no triumph is likely to be anything but short-lived.
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
The highest praise I can give a superhero movie is that it makes me forget about its 10-cent-comic-book soul.
Kyle Smith, New York Post
Bale again brilliantly personifies all the deep traumas and misgivings of Batman's alter ego, Bruce Wayne. A bit of Hamlet is in this Batman.
Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter
2 comments:
I have to admit though. Based on the advertising and the trailers, The Dark Knight does seem like more of a movie based on a graphic novel as opposed to a comic book.
I like graphic novels better than comic books.
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