The Dark Knight

By Sandor Hugert

 

This is by far the most anticipated movie of the year, and it actually managed to deliver most of its expectations.  It’s a fairly long movie as it is about two hours and thirty minutes but it was worth it as it had enough time to cram many things into this great movie.  The story was top notch in the movie and the action was amazing as well, except that there wasn’t as much action as one might expect from an average superhero movie.  The actors all gave a top-notch performance except Batman’s deep voice still just doesn’t really fit into the movie just like in Batman Begins.  You cannot talk about this movie without mentioning Heath Ledger’s performance as the Joker.  He really nailed the Joker and just added something extra to this already great movie.  There was just something about his performance that made you laugh every time he showed up on screen because that is just how good he did playing the Joker.  This movie without the Joker would not have even been better then Batman Begins but because of the great character it managed to top the first Batman movie.  I’m sure that there will be a Batman 3, but I’m not sure if it will even come close to how good this one was without Heath Ledger as the Joker if they even put the Joker into the next one which I highly doubt.  Overall, this one of those few times when a highly anticipated movie actually manages to deliver and it really was an awesome movie.

 

Score:  9 out of 10

Hancock

By Sandor Hugert

Once again, Will Smith is lighting up the movies on the July 4^th weekend.  This movie is not up to standards with other great Will Smith movies such as Men in Black, I Robot, and Independence Day.  Hancock could be separated into three different parts as the movie makes big changes every thirty minutes in a movie that is only one hour and thirty minutes long.  The first thirty minutes is great as it is just a straight out comedy movie that makes fun of all the superhero movies that were recently released.  The comedy is great, but in the next hour of the movie everything just fell apart.  In the second thirty minutes, it becomes just a normal action movie, which is okay except for the fact that it is better in other superhero movies such as Iron Man, and the tagline for Hancock is that he is not your average superhero.  In the last thirty minute the movie just fell apart with a twist that was obvious from the beginning but I will not spoil it here.  They tried to add some drama into the last thirty minutes which did not fit well, and in the end they made Hancock just an average superhero just like every other superhero movie out there.  Overall, this movie could have been great if they just kept the comedy from the first thirty minutes, but instead they tried to make Hancock an average superhero, so the whole thing just kind of felt short in the end.

Score:  6 out of 10