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Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, many people would argue that it is THE superhero movie, the one above all, the one that revolutionised not only the superhero genre, but also the action genre itself.  The Dark Knight has incredible set pieces that I absolutely adored, the action sequences had a massive upgrade compared to Batman Begins, which allowed Christopher Nolan to do his signature big practical effects, in this movie it was the truck flip during the Batmobile sequence, and the infamous hospital bombing scene, both took my breath away. And of course, it wouldn’t be a Christopher Nolan movie without one of the actors delivering one of the best performance in film history, in this case Heath Ledger. Heath Ledger completely dominated every scene he was in, outperforming legends like Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, and even Michael Caine. His performance was so perfect, that almost every Joker performance after this are still influenced by his performance, and even small things like his lip licking and body language are so perfectly done. On rewatch, you might notice every single line from The Joker is a lie, he lies at every scene he’s in to everyone, which I loved and adds an extra layer of The Joker’s mysterious and chaotic character.  The film starts off with a nuclear explosion with the bank heist, and goes on a rapid fire non stop until all the way to the end, which causes audiences to be at the edge of their seats from beginning to end. Thankfully, this is one of the few Christopher Nolan films that didn’t have his signature bad editing, if anything, the editing elevated this movie by the constant cuts to make the pacing feel a lot more faster and intense. And honestly, I thought Aaron Eckhart was the best actor in this movie other than Heath Ledger, his switch from charming and charismatic Harvey Dent to a raging and revenge driven Two Face was incredibly compelling, my unpopular opinion of this movie is that his character writing was the best out of everyone in this movie, but Heath Ledger’s acting as The Joker was still on another level compared to everyone else here.  Rest In Peace Heath Ledger, he delivered one of the best performance I have ever seen in this movie, I wish he could see how many people loved him just from this movie by itself.

A simple, but very thrilling beginning to the legendary Dark Knight Trilogy, Batman Begins doesn’t overextend by doing too much of what Christopher Nolan usually does with his films by using incredibly complex concepts, he just keeps things simple with a Batman origin story, a villain, and a very engaging climax.  Rewatching this trilogy made me realise that Christian Bale’s Batman voice was so much better in Batman Begins, it wasn’t too raspy to the point where you don’t understand what he says, and deep enough to mask his real voice, but there were some scenes where for whatever reason he just uses his real voice. Cillain Murphy delivers an amazing performance as Scarecrow, although Christian Bale is, in my opinion, one of the best actors of his generation, Cillain Murphy definitely outperformed him by perfectly making Dr Crane and Scarecrow seem like completely different characters.  There were some issues I had with this movie, one of them being that the movie takes forever to set up, to the point where the actual plot doesn’t even start until like one hour in. Also, Rachel felt like there were elements where she could be an interesting character, but ends up being a damsel in distress and serves no purpose other than being Bruce Wayne’s love interest. And of course, there is the signature Christopher Nolan terrible editing in some scenes where it kept cutting into different characters for a split second then back to the main characters for no reason.  Even though I had some issues with the movie, it is still a perfect introduction to Christopher Nolan’s Batman. Also, Jack Gleeson appearing in this movie gave me ptsd from his role as Joffrey.

A generational film by the man himself, Christopher Nolan. Even though summer blockbusters are just starting to release now, I am very sure that none of them will ever be able to match the level of The Odyssey.  The Odyssey is the film that proved the Historical Epics genre is still very much in demand, you just need to make it feel grand and immerse the audience with its simple but gripping story. The biggest surprise for me was how Christopher Nolan managed to get the best acting performance out of everyone in the film, even ones who only had small roles like Elliot Page, Benny Safdie, Jon Bernthal, all gave acting performances that were amazing enough to leave a mark in the film, except for Tom Holland.  Christopher Nolan really used this film to experiment his abilities to make horror films, and I got to say that he really has a talent for making horror films that I really hope to see him make an actual horror film one day, since I have seen him interested in the horror genre for a while now during interviews.  The Odyssey is definitely the best film of the year, which is insane because I find myself saying this every time I watch a newly released movie this year. 2026 is just pumping out generational films that I hope will keep on coming.

I finished this film, went to bed, and woke up with a terrible headache that felt like I was stabbed and an intense flu, which both caused my entire body to completely crash and sleep through the entire day.  This film is cursed.