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Originally Posted by SeattleUte
This may be the silliest thing I've ever read in the New Yorker (which is saying a lot):
"When Ledger wields a knife, he is thoroughly terrifying (do not, despite the PG-13 rating, bring the children), and, as you’re watching him, you can’t help wondering—in a response that admittedly lies outside film criticism—how badly he messed himself up in order to play the role this way. His performance is a heroic, unsettling final act: this young actor looked into the abyss."
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critic..._cinema_denby/
"This young actor looked into the abyss"? Good Lord. We're not talking about Keats or Poe or even Malcolm McDowell. We're talking about a Batman film, and Heath Ledger.
Ironically, Denby goes on to say that notwithstanding Ledger's virtuoso performance the film as a whole sucks. |
Saying it sucks might be taking it a stitch far. But I agree the jaunt out to Hong Kong was pointless, the death of Rachel seemed glossed over, and the movie had too many climaxes. When the end came it seemed truly ... well .... anti-climactic.
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