Ever since the first official reviews for The
Dark Knight began to surface I have been checking in on RottenTomatoes repeatedly. While the critique site claims the film is still batting 100% when it comes to reviews, the good people at /Film have discovered what looks to be TDK's first not-so-positive report.
Negative Report Arrives for The Dark Knight
While statements such as "film of the year" and "best comicbook adaptation" have repeatedly been heard when discussing The Dark Knight, NY Mag's David Edelstein thought the film was a little too dark.
Even if the death of Heath Ledger hadn’t already draped it in a funeral shroud, The Dark Knight would be a morbid affair: It could only be darker if Batman died. (He does die a little, on the inside.) The director, Christopher Nolan, has decided to get real with the thing. Forget Gotham City—or Anton Furst’s splendid Gothic Gotham of Tim Burton’s Batman, which summoned up the freaky superhero’s inner landscape of vaulted arches and gargoyles. We’re now in a modern, untransformed Manhattan, where the Joker’s opening bank heist unfolds in a tense, realistic style with multiple point-blank shootings. It’s a shock—and very effective—to see a comic-book villain come on like a Quentin Tarantino reservoir dog.
The review then goes on and later gets distracted by another film, but overall concludes that The Dark Knight offers too much crime and too little comicbook.
I don't know about you, but this sounds something like the comicbook adaptation I've been waiting for.
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