The Dark Knight Rises Review

            

             I’m a little late on this one, but as everyone knows at this point The Dark Knight Rises recently came out to theaters. The third and final Christopher Nolan film on Batman was one of the most anticipated films of the year and it lived up to those expectations.

            Set eight years after the phenomenal film The Dark Knight, Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) has become a recluse and Batman is no more. As the injured and beaten Bruce hides out his good friend Commissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman) is struggling with the lies he has told Gotham City about the death of Harvey Dent. New characters are introduced including Anne Hathaway as the jewel thief Catwoman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a rookie cop named John Blake, and Marion Cotillard as a new business partner named
Miranda Tate. Meanwhile as things in Gotham seem safe, a new and stronger villain rises by the name of Bane (Tom Hardy), causing the need for Bruce Wayne to become Batman once again.

            This is the best end that the Nolan brothers and David S. Goyer could have ever come up with for what is now being called The Dark Knight Trilogy. There is not a bad performance in the film with stars like Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine, Tom Hardy, and Morgan Freeman stealing every scene they are in. The movie looked great and Christopher Nolan has proven that the film format, as opposed to digital, is not dead yet. Most Batman fans were worried about the portrayal of Bane in this film, but Tom Hardy’s Bane, although not as iconic as Heath Ledger’s Joker, is every bit as menacing as Batman villains in the past.

            I didn’t enjoy this movie as much as I enjoyed The Dark Knight, but it was definitely one of the best films of the year and one of the best superhero movies ever made. I would even go so far as to mark this as the best superhero trilogy out there, not  just because Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises are amzing superhero movies, but because they are the first movies to transcend the superhero genre and just simply be considered great film. Christopher Nolan is the only director out there to continually impress me and seeing this in both regular movie theaters and IMAX, he was right to film in IMAX. Go spend the extra dollar and see it an IMAX theater it’s worth it. I give it an A.