Part of me wanted to confirm my claim that The Dark Knight had nothing on The Chaser, but after watching it again on Blu-Ray this weekend, and even though the IMAX scenes pushing past 16:9 seemed like a sneaky step backwards for those of us old enough to remember pre-widescreen TV’s, I can’t bring myself to find anything wrong with a movie that ambitious, that successful, that powerful. It’s that the other one was just as intense, and cost less than what they probably paid Christian Bale’s mother. I’d like to think I live in a world where the good guy has some billion-dollar cellphone technology to track his prey (as opposed to a single flunky going from door to door), shows up outta nowhere and all his punches and kicks connect, and we probably would need to, with an anarchist planting that many bombs out there, but what if it was just a loner with a hammer, and the cops were as useless as Gotham’s were corrupt? BTW, I happened to notice the H.I.T cover at the bookstore near Media King last night and it dawned on me that he was the prosecutor!
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