Tonight on Netflix: The best superhero movie of all time

A few years after he began fighting crime on the streets of Gotham, Bruce Wayne continues to fight against the underworld and all kinds of gangsters with Police Commissioner Gordon and his loyal butler Alfred.

Always hiding under the mask of Batman, the vigilante can now count on the help of a new prosecutor – a man named Harvey Dent – who offers to take his fight public by running for office.

But just as events seem to be working in the Dark Knight’s favor, a new enemy suddenly appears. Dressed in a long purple coat, sporting green hair and a large bloody smile that affects a pronounced taste for chaos, he calls himself the Joker.

While Christopher Nolan’s trilogy of Bruce Wayne adventures is still considered one of the best adaptations of the famous comics, his second opus, set between the promising Batman Begins and the epic Dark Knight Rises, is generally cited as the best. Three feature films.

More visceral and realistic than the others, it often takes on an air of action film à la Michael Mann (whom Nolan willingly cites as one of his influences), somewhat abandoning the capes, masks and gadgets to delve into the psychology of his characters. .

There we find a compulsively tortured Batman, worn down by the increasing weight of his duties, and developing an anti-man who knows how to hit exactly where it hurts. The successive duels that the two enemies engage in – first from a distance, then during a masterful chase, and finally in the interrogation room, inches from each other – mark the entire film with their violence and brutality.

With an outstanding cast (starring Christian Bale and the late Heath Ledger), Christopher Nolan’s precise staging, and Hans Zimmer’s iconic score, The Dark Knight is considered by AlloCiné viewers to be the best superhero movie ever made. , with an average rating of 4.508 out of 5 stars.

Just below, on the podium of the best superhero movies according to Internet users, we find Spider-Man: The Next Generation (4,372 out of 5), Avengers: Infinity War (4,322 out of 5), The Dark Knight Rises (4,312). 5) and Batman vs. Ghost in the Mask (4.304 out of 5).

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