When we got to the Vue last night, forty minutes before the film was scheduled to begin and the queue was already halfway to the door, a sea of Batman t-shirts were ahead of me. The staff were having to arrange the line neatly while those who were there for other films looked rather bemused at having to wade through the crowds. You could tell that even though quite a few weren’t die hard fans (”Harvey Dent? Whose that?”) there was still a heavy atmosphere of expectations and I’ll admit that as we filed in, I wondering if my expectations were likely to be met, doubting they would be. I knew it would be a good film however I wondered cynically just how much of the hype was down to the fact that Heath Ledger has died, rather than purely down to the merits of the film.
What followed was two and three quarter hours where my expectations weren’t met but exceeded in every single way, they were exceeded in ways I didn’t even think were even there. The Dark Knight left me chilled, shocked and absolutely speechless and received a round of applause as the credits rolled. It deserved all of it, it has been a long time since any film stunned me the way this did and I really don’t see anyone being capable of topping it any time soon.
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July 26th, 2008 at 6:56 am
I don’t even like batman and I enjoyed it… that says something.