The Dark Knight

The marriage of the crime epic with Batman was kind of perfect in concept from the beginning. Batman, as a superhero, was always more commonly concerned with more down to earth problems, so taking those down to earth problems in the direction of something like Michael Mann’s Heat was such a natural fit that it’s a wonder no one really thought of it before in cinematic terms.

Hinging on the final exchange in Batman Begins, The Dark Knight takes on the idea of escalation, extending it into ...