The Dark Knight

Here’s why this movie rocks:

• Joker. Absolutely phenomenal performance by Heath Ledger. The guy is convincingly creepy, sicko, amusing, seducing, philosophical. When he’s on the screen he totally shadows everybody else, including Batman. I remember an old Batman where he was played by Jack Nickolson with a plastic mask on his face. That was so lame… this guy actually looks and feels like somebody took a knife and made him those scars. Sadly, Heath is now dead.
• Batman is indeed the Dark Knight, “an outcast, making choices nobody else can make”. Eg he chooses to first save the only bright light in the city fighting against crime, his ex-girlfriend’s may-be husband, over her.
• Harvey Dent. I’ve had the feeling from the beginning that he’s going to turn into a villain. How he falls is a big story withing the movie.
• It’s directed by Chris Nolan, who made Memento.
• Batmobile is so badass that it makes a black Lamborghini look like a cheap joke.
• There is no Robin.

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Hitman

Hitman is originally a video game series. It’s famous for the kind of a gameplay where, to succeed, one needs to be quiet and sinister. And they did that well here in the movie – it is an action movie, but agent 47 never does more than necessary and is most effective and deadly. The plot is pure fiction, like a few well-thought collected game missions.

A gun-for-hire known only as Agent 47 hired by a group known only as ‘The Agency’ is ensnared in a political conspiracy, which finds him pursued by both Interpol and the Russian military as he treks across Eastern Europe.

Somehow it all works for me. I like his style, the devotion, the look, the suit. They use slow motion in a lot of places to emphasise good moments, and the music is well chosen to amplify the effect on the viewer.

This particular torrent has it encoded with H264 codec – which is excellent as it makes the whole movie only 350 MB big, in 672 x 286 resolution.

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