It is a tribute to the quality of a creative work—or perhaps better to say, one seminal creative source—that it can continue to generate consistently solid material despite the vein having been mined so many times before. So with this movie. Here comes yet another new take on the most resilient of the comic book stories, a newly born avatar that comes across as fresh and, if not original, then at least as singular in its own take on the familiar tropes. Once again, DC's greatest intellectual property demonstrates how well the Dark Knight plays in an all-too-realistic setting--unlike the toys being sold by the guys on the other side of the book rack. This outing is gritty, dark, rough and honest in its contextualization of the guy in the cape as a symptom of a greater madness, a societal rot that can birth a hell on earth—one from which no hero, caped or otherwise, may be able to save us. The only flaws here are a slightly too-long running time, and a denouement that delivers a little less punch than expected (presumably, the one problem produces the other). Overall, though, this is an impressive entry in this venerable, seemingly ever(dark)green enterprise.
No comments:
Post a Comment