Fireworks vs The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight has the higher audience score (8.5/10 against 7.7/10 for Fireworks). Fireworks is the shorter watch at 1h 43m compared with 2h 32m. Fireworks is the older of the two (1997 against 2008). Both are crime, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Fireworks posterFireworks1997 VS The Dark Knight posterThe Dark Knight2008
FireworksThe Dark Knight
Audience score★ 7.7/10★ 8.5/10
Year19972008
Length1h 43m2h 32m
GenresCrime, DramaAction, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country–United Kingdom
DirectorTakeshi KitanoChristopher Nolan
Main castRen Osugi, Takeshi Kitano, Susumu Terajima, Yuko Daike, Makoto AshikawaNestor Carbonell, Aaron Eckhart, Monique Gabriela Curnen, Cillian Murphy, Anthony Michael Hall

Synopsis

Fireworks

Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With his wife suffering from leukemia and his business partner paralyzed from a brutal gangster attack, Nishi borrows from a yakuza loan shark and then robs a bank to clear his debt.

The Dark Knight

Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker.

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