The Dark Knight Rises Movie Reviews

Hey Gothamites! This is your last chance to hoot, whistle, clap, scream... and do everything possible to cheer for your iconic super hero who makes a final appearance in this epic conclusive part of Hollywood's greatest triology of the 21st Century. So what if that hero is turning all grey! So what if we see him falling and failing each time he tries to rise! So what if the movie really makes you wait in order to get a glimpse of Christian Bale

Before reading the review, please have a look at the cast. Then think, ‘can anyone go wrong with this cast?’ Now think in Capital Letters. CAN CHRISTOPHER NOLAN GO WRONG WITH THIS CAST? No, I’m not trying Inception here. Nolan has got the crème de la crème of Hollywood to work with and half his battle was won before it began. And the good thing is that his actors haven’t disappointed

Somewhere before Batman makes his applause-worthy first appearance in The Dark Knight, an old gun tells his rookie partner, “Boy, you’re in for a show tonight.” You could call that a bit of an understatement. For those who came in late, Batman (Christian Bale) has decided to cool his heels after turning from beloved saviour to despised criminal on being blamed for the death of Gotham City’s White Knight DA Harvey Dent

The third and reportedly final part in Christopher Nolan's Batman franchise offers what one has come to expect from the revamped series: a full-on pop-culture spectacle, awe-inspiring set pieces and loads of techno razzle-dazzle. Even so, we are ultimately left with the feeling that The Dark Knight Rises falls short of its potential. This time around, the Batverse is over-cluttered with new characters; the last-minute revelation of one more super-villain

In order to fully appreciate The Dark Knight Rises, it might be a good idea to refresh your memory of Batman Begins, given that key plot points and characters from the 2005 film are referenced in Christopher Nolan’s final chapter in the Batman trilogy. Oh, and one more thing – it would also help if you had no memory of The Dark Knight, Nolan’s 2008 sequel. Why, you ask? Well, I’m just going to say it – because while The Dark Knight Rises is a perfectly good film

After getting tired of those pesky police dogs snapping at his heels and the snide comments of his English butler on the caped crusader profession, billionaire Bruce Wayne (Bale) has thrown in the towel. (Actually it was the loss of his only love Rachel Dawes, and the popular belief that he did in poster boy District Attorney Harvey Dent, but moving on…) Before the slippery cat burglar Selina Kyle (Hathaway) enters his life

Comics gave up on the thought-bubble a while back. Superhero comics took standard dialogue boxes, straightened the edges and sawed off the icicles pointing to characters -- giving us neat narrative rectangles, streamlined subtexty pizza-boxes, sometimes distinctly coloured for each flavour of character. Folks speak as they may, but the red box tells us what the red character thinks, the blue boxes do the same for the guy

IT'S tempting to read a sign of the times in superhero movies where good always, always does triumph over evil. It's especially tempting to do so in the case of Batman, a conflicted superhero who is really an ordinary human with no real superpowers except dedicated co-workers and scientists, an ability to slip into a figure-clenching leather suit and the fearlessness to look staring down at Gotham city perched dangerously on the tallest tower available

IT'S tempting to read a sign of the times in superhero movies where good always, always does triumph over evil. It's especially tempting to do so in the case of Batman, a conflicted superhero who is really an ordinary human with no real superpowers except dedicated co-workers and scientists, an ability to slip into a figure-clenching leather suit and the fearlessness to look staring down at Gotham city perched dangerously on the tallest tower available

“I'm still a believer in Batman, even if you're not,” says a young Sergeant to the billionaire Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale), knowing that he is Batman. Wayne, limping on one foot, down and dejected, has been hiding in his mansion for years. Suddenly, as you would expect, his Gotham City needs him again. So do all cinema audiences – practically all of them are as firm believers in Batman as that Sergeant, it seems

Christopher Nolan concludes his Batman trilogy in typically spectacular, ambitious fashion with The Dark Knight Rises, but the feeling of frustration and disappointment is unshakable. Maybe that was inevitable. Maybe nothing could have met the expectations established by 2008's The Dark Knight, which revolutionized and set the standard for films based on comic books by being both high-minded and crowd-pleasing

Christopher Nolan’s last of the Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises, weaves a difficult plot through a multitude of characters, not all of them well etched, in a postmodern scenario. We have terrorism, an atomic bomb in the hands of faceless rogues and a community which is held to terrifying ransom. The criminals have a clear motive, to cleanse Gotham city of those they deem corrupt, much like the French Revolution that guillotined