SummaryIt has been eight years since Batman vanished into the night, turning, in that instant, from hero to fugitive. Assuming the blame for the death of D.A. Harvey Dent, the Dark Knight sacrificed everything for what he and Commissioner Gordon both hoped was the greater good. For a time the lie worked, as criminal activity in Gotham City was ...
SummaryIt has been eight years since Batman vanished into the night, turning, in that instant, from hero to fugitive. Assuming the blame for the death of D.A. Harvey Dent, the Dark Knight sacrificed everything for what he and Commissioner Gordon both hoped was the greater good. For a time the lie worked, as criminal activity in Gotham City was ...
A cinematic, cultural and personal triumph, The Dark Knight Rises is emotionally inspiring, aesthetically significant and critically important for America itself – as a mirror of both sober reflection and resilient hope.
With spectacle in abundance and sexiness in (supporting) parts, this is superhero filmmaking on an unprecedented scale. Rises may lack the surprise of Begins or the anarchy of Knight, but it makes up for that in pure emotion.
★★★★★The Dark Knight Rises (2012), the long-awaited climax to Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy was always guaranteed to be huge at the box-office. If you caught Batman Begins (2005) and The Dark Knight (2008), then only a masochist would resist the temptation to see how it all pans out. Most critics will sing its praises, whilst some will attempt to court controversy. Yet no film is without fault. There are parts of Nolan’s latest that smack of rushed editing, a scene between two of the characters is shoe-horned in order to manufacture a romance and the climax is not as surprising as it thinks it **** this was your average Hollywood blockbuster then the issues would be more than glaring but here, they are mere scattered raindrops on a hot summers day. The Dark Knight Rises is the pinnacle of epic movie-making and its scale and grandeur are unprecedented in cinema history. Nolan’s biggest achievement – and the real star of his third Batman film – is Gotham city itself. From the back alleys to the main drag, the sewers to the rooftops, Gotham is a living, breathing metropolis perfectly realised and utterly believable. The cinematography – especially watched via IMAX – is, at times, nothing short of breathtaking, with Christopher Nolan embracing his inner-Spielberg and bettering anything the old master has produced thus **** for the cast, this is undeniably Christian Bale’s best outing as the Caped Crusader. Gone is the brash, vengeful young man replaced by a weary, battered recluse – yet with age, it seems, comes a sense of humour. There are also some great comedic moments and this lighter touch makes you wonder if Nolan asked himself “Why so serious?” after The Dark Knight’s black and moody **** comparisons made between Tom Hardy’s towering terrorist Bane and the late Heath Ledger’s masterful portrayal of The Joker are unfair and best ignored. These are two very different beasts and the physical threat of Bane provides Batman with a worthy foe, capable of beating him with both his brains and his brawn. Yet of all the lead characters introduced (and re-introduced), it is Anne Hathaway’s Catwoman that shines the brightest. Her physicality, sexual allure and dead-pan quips make for a fun and provocative character, and if there is still anyone out there who still thinks Hathaway isn’t one of the great female actors currently plying their trade, then this role proves it beyond **** its lofty ambition alone, The Dark Knight Rises should be lauded and applauded. It’s not quite perfect, but it’s damn near close, the only real downside being that this will reportedly be the last Batman film with Nolan at the helm.
Script wise this is probably the best of the trilogy. I think it's easy to forget that this is the end of Batman so all things leading up to the end were just wrapping up loose ends and the birth of a new Bruce Wayne.Seeing Michael Caine cry should be its own movie I swear to god what a **** gem.Anyway ending the trilogy the way it started, with the league of shadows was A+++ and it's what makes this my favorite movie, they do so much with a storyline that isn't as touched as its louder counterparts
The Dark Knight Rises ultimately justifies its length (in fact, a good argument could be made for a longer cut) and the last 45 minutes is nothing short of spectacular. From the point where the narrative takes a leap of faith, it never lets up.
The Dark Knight Rises may be a hammy, portentous affair but Nolan directs it with aplomb. He takes these cod-heroic, costumed elements and whisks them into a tale of heavy-metal fury, full of pain and toil, surging uphill, across the flyovers, in search of a climax.
Doesn't rise as much as it flounders and frustrates, in what would appear to be a case of a filmmaker prioritizing ego over efficiency, and engaging in generally muddled storytelling.
Halfheartedly, I give The Dark Knight Rises - the third and final Batflick in the Nolan trilogy - one star for eardrum-busting sound effects and glaucoma-inducing computerized images in blinding Imax, but talk about stretching things.
The Dark Knight Rises has to be tied with The Dark Knight (2008) for being the best out of the trilogy! It was just fantastic! I loved Cat Woman played by Anne Hathaway and of course Bat Man played by Christian Bale ! These characters are great throughout the entire film! I also enjoyed the plot twists with the villains! I loved how they made Bane way more likeable at the end with him being the saviour for the main actual twist villain. I also was a huge fan of the way the end and beginning came together. How Alfred saw Batman who was supposed to be dead at the restaurant with Cat Woman! It was so fantastic just thinking about it right now gives me the chills
Unfortunately the weakest movie in the Trilogy. Most of the characters are likeable and there are some pretty cool fight scenes, but some parts are badly paced, and the writing is mediocre. Despite the flaws, it's overall a decent ending to the Dark Knight Trilogy.
If the first two films did not impress me this is the one I liked the least and that I think is the worst of the trilogy. Nothing comes back in the script, action scenes shot very badly, characters who do not convince by writing. A film that I didn't like at all.
Why is it that Bane is literally so cool in every other incarnation of him /except/ for the one he's most notably known for? This movie ****, dude. The portrayal of Bane is literally so exaggerated its comedic. You could say that about this entire movie, actually-- the whole conflict that it rides on is so out of the feeling of anything real it's hard to get invested in. Bale has never been a good Batman to me, and this movie just cements his mediocrity. The Dark Knight is perfect because its everything this movie isn't-- almost never wasting a moment, always keeping you guessing, beautiful performances that bring you into the characters, a story and plot full of themes that are coherent and come full circle, a well believable world and take on the story, and of course, not one but two amazing villains. This movie has none of that. It's predictable, has little replay value, I don't care about ANY of the characters, blah blah blah "darkness", and i **** hate Bane. It really **** that this movie ends an iconic trilogy. It just doesn't do it justice at all!