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The Dark Knight (2008)
Waste of time
This movie was trying to be many things at once. Between the cheesy Gordon's lines and a gangster movie wannabe, they really lost a lot of the essence they build in the first movie. First of all, Batman is supposed to be a superhero. In my opinion they should have focused in getting a mix of Spiderman (which made superheroes movies popular again) with the kind of Asian mystery and wise character they created in the first movie. Now you just see a guy that can do no wrong, where you are supposed to be awed by his sacrifices. See the problem is that if you want to create a believable gangster movie, "good" guys have legitimate reasons to kill "bad" guys sometimes and they pretty much have to unless they are a priest or something. Remember The Departed? That's what you have to focus on if you want good drama. They could complement that with what the new Hulk movie (the one with Edward Norton) achieved, and then we could have a fantastic movies with one of the greatest comic characters of all time.
As far as the acting goes, I don't see what all the fuzz is all about with the Joker. Watch No country for Old Men and tell me who you are really scared of afterwards. And no makeup required on top of that.
Secuestro express (2004)
Good overall with some political propaganda
The movie is one of the best action movies I've seen coming out from Venezuelan cinema. I have only two problems with this movie.
First is that they portray Venezuelan society as totally corrupted and while there is corruption, is not like the wild west either. I lived in that city for a long time and nothing ever happened to me. Of course, don't be flashy about things you might have (cell phone, cars, watches) in troubled neighborhoods, but I find that is the same thing you have to do in a lot of areas of Washington DC.
Second issue is that I'm still trying to figure out what it is the purpose of adding footage of a coup d'etat. It only served the director to get sued in Venezuela by the guy who was shooting in that initial scene and of course, government reaction because of the one sidedness of the footage, it would be interesting that they show the street blockades with burning tires that these "citizens" established throughout the city that basically confined everyone to their homes (including sick people in need of attention) and was the main reason of police action. I guess the director is antichavez like most upper-class people in Venezuela, but mixing politics seems unnecessary to me in this case, since at the end you get to see why Chavez is there in the first place, which is the huge inequality left by the so called democratic governments throughout Latin America.