Joker……Best Comic Book Movie Villain Of All Time.

I was counting days until the release of the Dark knight here in Sri lanka,So i booked the tickets 3 weeks prior,and went to watch it with my wife on Saturday. What was so noticeable was 99% had come to watch the joker,everybody had a opinion on Heath Ledger’s death. So Rather than have everyone skip ahead, lets talk about Heath Ledger(Joker).He’s Just brilliant. Director Christopher Nolan wanted a darker,twisted Batman installment. He can thank Ledger for a lot of that.

“The Dark Knight” rides on Ledger’s performance as the Joker. So does a lot of audience hope. There has never been a situation like this, where Audiences for the biggest blockbuster are flooding in, not just hoping an actor will be good but also expecting and needing him to be absolutely amazing. He comes on screen and electrifies the movie. With his smeared lipstick and painted white face. His simplicity is fascinating, and as the movie goes on, that simplicity in itself becomes genuinely frightening. I loved the part where he bombs down the Gotham city hospital,And he walks toward us, stiff and happy and hobbling, like a toddler. I felt the movie was a little too long but never boring. At about the 2 hour mark I was ready to call The Dark Knight the best film of the year.