Heyum's Journal

The Dark Knight was the best movie I saw this year. The story was a little complicated, but it was understandable. It started as people wearing clown masks robbing a big bank. While they were robbing the bank, each person was ordered to kill one another. It turned out that the last person who killed the other person was actually the Joker. This part was surprising and made me more excited about what was going to happen further on. While the police were trying to catch a person called Lau who was holding all the stolen money, he was half way to Hong Kong. The scene where Batman went to Hong Kong to catch Lau was amazing because all the action and all the devices Batman used to catch Lau. He was taken to the police and a prosecutor called Harvey Dent made him spill everything they needed to take him down. Meanwhile, Joker suggested that Batman should be dead because he was the biggest threat so he started sending messages about the people he will kill. He said he will stop killing people when Batman takes off his mask and give in to the police. The police found a joker card that had DNA of three people so they tried to protect them. Starting this part of the movie, it gets better and better because it had all the excitement and it was all about the mind. One of the three people was the commissioner but the commissioner said that he didn't need protection. He took out his wine and started drinking but that drink made him die. The judge was the second person but when she got in her car it blew up with a big explosion. After Harvey took Lau down Bruce Wayne aka Batman threw a party to celebrate Harvey's great work. But they didn't know that Harvey was the third person who Joker was going to kill. Just before Joker came in to kill Harvey, Bruce got a message that Harvey was the third person so he took Harvey to a safe place and suited up to get Joker. Batman was about to defeat Joker but Joker threw Harvey's girlfriend Rachel Dawes out the window so he jumped out and got her. Batman saved her life but Joker got away. Now the main action of the movie was about to start and it was the best part of the movie. All the calculated plans and twists were the best and it was all action, too. Joker sent another message and this time it was the mayor. On the mayor's parade Joker's men disguised as soldiers tried to shoot the mayor but James Gordon the Lieutenant saved the mayor but he got shot. Gordon was then known dead and the police wanted to make his death worthwhile. They found two more messages and it was Rachel and Harvey. Rachel was already captured but Harvey wasn't so the police was trying to send Harvey to a safe place. While they were going Joker attacked and tried to capture Harvey but instead of capturing, he got captured by Gordon who came back from the dead. Harvey went inside a car but that car was one of Joker's. At the police station Joker blew up the station as planned and escaped. Later on, Joker told the police where Rachel and Harvey were and he said that only one person will live. Batman went to save Rachel but when Batman got there, there was Harvey. Joker tricked Batman and when Harvey saw Batman come in he screamed with lamentation because Batman came to him instead of Rachel. Batman took Harvey out as fast as he could and saved him but Harvey's left face was completely burned. I was shocked when Harvey the man of justice was the Harvey that turned into Two-face. I thought it was only Joker but with Two-face, the movie got a lot better. That night, one person was about to tell the true identity of Batman but Joker interfered and said Batman's true identity shouldn't be revealed. Then he threatened to destroy a hospital unless the person who tried to expose Batman's identity dies in one hour. People tried to kill him but Bruce saved his life by crashing into a truck that was trying to crash with the van where the man was. Meanwhile Joker went to the hospital and met Harvey and made him open his eyes to evil were no longer Harvey and became Two-face. Joker got out and exploded the building into smithereens. Two-face went to track down the person who told where Rachel was making her captured and killed the people by flipping coins. Joker was planning to do a game that will kill a lot of people and he tricked the people into playing. The people evacuating got on one ship and prisoners got on another ship. Joker told them that each ship has a device that will blow up the other ship and if they don't blow the other up before midnight they will all die. People started to fight about blowing the other ship or not. Batman used a device that uses sound wave and found Joker. Joker told Batman that it was time for one ship to explode but when it turned midnight, nothing got exploded. The civilian just couldn't blow the ship and the prisoners just threw out the device. Batman told Joker that people's nature doesn't change even though they were going to die right now. Joker got mad and took out the exploding device and tried to destroy both ships but Batman punched him and Joker fell off the building. Batman used the grappling hook and caught Joker hanging and the exploding device smashed. This scene made me really tense because I thought the prisoner with the device would blow up the other ship. The part where Batman fought Joker was a bit short but it was really great.

Two-face found the person who was responsible for Rachel's death. It was one of Gordon's men and he made her call Gordon's family to go to the place where Rachel died. After she called Two-face killed her and waited for Gordon to come. Two-face wanted to kill the person who could have saved Rachel but couldn't, too. Gordon begged to save his family but Two-face ignored him. Batman showed up and fought with Two-face. Two-face tried to kill Gordon but Batman pushed him to save Gordon and Two-face fell and died. Everything was settled but Harvey's murders were the problem. For Harvey to be the most justice person of all, Batman took the guilt and set off. He was the greatest of them all, the dark knight.

This movie was the best movie I have seen this year. Most movies have about thirty to forty minutes of boring parts, but The Dark Knight had no boring parts at all. It was excitement leading to thrill leading to full action. It wasn't like all the other super hero movies. It was great when an incident leaded to another incident without any breaks. That was the kind of movie I like to watch and it finally came out. There will be a lot of movies, but there won't be a movie like The Dark Night.