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Article: The Dark Knight (15A, general release) HHHHHgotham horror: Christian Bale on his Bat Bike, above, and right, Heath Ledger as The Joker.
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- Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
- Article date:
- July 25, 2008
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When Christopher Nolan revived the Batman franchise in 2005 with Batman Begins, he seemed to be doggedly returning the character to his roots in 1930s pulp fiction as a vigilante crimefighter motivated less by justice than revenge. His film's visual style evoked Frank Miller's disturbing Dark Knight comic of the mid-1980s and made Tim Burton's till-that-point definitive 1989 movie look like The Bat And The Beanstalk.
But if Batman Begins was dark and brooding, it's not a patch on its magnificently grim successor, which pushes the Batman story to its psychological limits by creating a film that is not for kiddies or even fainted-hearted grown-ups.
At two ...