the dark knight.

So after having waited FOREVER to watch The Dark Knight, I have to say that it was a trifle incoherent, and though Bale was quite serviceable in the role, he spent most of the movie in that suit, with an obscured voice. It would take a magician to be able to overcome the stultifying effects of that suit. While the movie was chock-a-block with plot developments, action sequences, and a lot of expensive skulduggery, it lacked some grace, a melody, a duality really. I hate to say this because I am indifferent to Michael Keaton, but Tim Burton's Batman and especially Batman Returns with the unforgettable Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman, had a crazy camp horror to it which this rather serious-minded, supposedly 'dark' version lacks. The one redeeming part though was the end, when Batman is being chased, forever on the run. Maggie Gyllenhaal however, lightened and smartened what was otherwise, a rather clunky movie. Sigh. And now one has to wait for the abomination of Terminator. Oh Christian Bale of the Art Film, wherefore art thou?