The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Average Rating: 8/10
Reviews Counted: 304
Fresh: 266 | Rotten: 38
The Dark Knight Rises is an ambitious, thoughtful, and potent action film that concludes Christopher Nolan's franchise in spectacular fashion.
Average Rating: 8/10
Critic Reviews: 48
Fresh: 37 | Rotten: 11
The Dark Knight Rises is an ambitious, thoughtful, and potent action film that concludes Christopher Nolan's franchise in spectacular fashion.
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It 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 crushed under the weight of the anti-crime Dent Act. But everything will change with the arrival of a cunning cat burglar with a mysterious agenda. Far more
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Cast
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Christian Bale
Bruce Wayne/Batman -
Anne Hathaway
Selina, Selina Kyle -
Tom Hardy
Bane -
Marion Cotillard
Miranda, Miranda Tat... -
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Blake, John Blake -
Michael Caine
Alfred -
Gary Oldman
Commissioner Gordon,... -
Morgan Freeman
Fox, Lucius Fox -
Liam Neeson
Ra's al Ghul -
Juno Temple
Holly Robinson, Jen -
Nestor Carbonell
Mayor -
Burn Gorman
Stryver -
Josh Pence
Ra's Al Ghul (young) -
Matthew Modine
Deputy Commissioner ... -
Tom Conti
Prisoner -
Joey King
Older Prison Child, ... -
Chris Ellis
Fr. Reilly, Priest -
Brett Cullen
Congressman, Judge -
Josh Stewart
Bane's Mercenary, Ba... -
Daniel Sunjata
Captain Jones, GPD S... -
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Ben Mendelsohn
Daggett
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The story is dense, overlong, and studded with references that will make sense only to those intimate with Nolan's previous excursions into Batmanhood.
Top CriticThere was an opportunity here for Nolan to show us another way, to (again) stretch the boundaries of what is possible in a superhero film. Instead, alas, the latter half of The Dark Knight Rises retreats toward conventionality.
I'm not arguing that Rises should be Singin' in the Rain. But its Wagnerian ambitions are not matched by its material. It hasn't earned its darkness.
The biggest surprise may just be how satisfying Nolan has made his farewell to a Dark Knight trilogy that many fans will wish he'd extend to a 10-part series, at least.
Others will see it differently, but for me this is a disappointingly clunky and bombastic conclusion to a superior series -- Nolan's biggest and worst movie to date.
The director and cowriter/brother Jonathan Nolan pay heed to Wayne's wounded emotional arc. And the film is a feat of painstakingly crafted closure.
I was surprised at just how much of a great, thrilling time I had. It's a film that genuinely earns its stripes as a grand, epic work of cinema.
No villain could come close to matching Ledger's inspired Joker, but give Hardy credit for supplying Bane with plenty of conviction and gravitas in a movie that, frankly, is less about actors than knockout set pieces captured in eyeball-popping spectacles.
Caps off the trilogy with passion and dignity, if not always with slam-bang entertainment. Whoever directs the reboot in five years will have a lot to live up to.
The movie's two hours and 44 minutes long but never drags, and it has at least five separate action set pieces that will drop your jaw, particularly if you see it in IMAX.
The Dark Knight Rises captures the spirit -- and cultural anxieties -- of the times.
The final installment in Christopher Nolan's pitch-black trilogy manages to be both relevant and topical while slavishly adhering to the stodgy tropes of the genre.
Gloom never looked as good as it does in the mesmerizing "The Dark Knight Rises."
Even with its flaws, The Dark Knight Rises is a solid film. It just fails to live up to the magnificent legacy created by the first two movies in the trilogy. To be fair, they were incredibly hard acts to follow.
Every facet of this impressive piece reaffirms the same thematic gristle as it forces the viewer to chew on the notion of personal responsibility.
The Dark Knight Rises is all about risks, and there are payoffs and failures to go with it.
This is a solid film, taking itself seriously and asking that we do the same.
It's not un-entertaining. Exhausting, a bit, but not un-entertaining.
An ambitious, honourable and satisfying conclusion to this genre-defining trilogy.
The Dark Knight Rises directly counters the arguments made against The Dark Knight. Maybe, sometimes, it is better to leave the demons unvanquished.
Technically, The Dark Knight Rises is a thick leatherbound volume with gilded pages, though flipping through it yields a story about a big bad bald man doing eeevil things until a vigilante with pointy ears comes to the rescue.
Weighed down by portentousness and momentousness. The overall story remains a bit muddled. A better trilogy-capper than a movie in its own right.
There's plenty of action, intrigue, special effects, and high-tech gadgets to maintain our attention at least in spurts.
There's enough that works in The Dark Knight Rises that I can overlook most of the more glaring flaws, but it remains to date the most disappointing film I've seen from 2012.
Nolan keeps things dark and dangerous
Doubtless flawed and arguably overlong, it's nonetheless a personal and heartfelt ode from the director to the greatest comic-book character ever committed to paper -- and now film.
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Movies Like The Dark Knight Rises
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- Fox: Nothin like a little air superiority!
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- Bruce Wayne/Batman: A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy's shoulders to let him know that the world hadn't ended.
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- Miranda Tate: Suffering builds character.
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- Miranda Tate: Vengeance against the man who killed him, is simply a reward, for my patience. You see, it's the slow knife, the knife that takes it's time, the knife that waits years without forgetting, then slips quietly between the bones, that's the knife that cuts deepest.
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- Bruce Wayne/Batman: He was trying to kill millions of innocent people.
- Miranda Tate: Innocent is a strong word to throw around Gotham, Bruce. I honor my father by finishing his work.
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- Selina Kyle: You don't owe these people anymore, you've given them everything.
- Bruce Wayne/Batman: Not everything, not yet.
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| Was anyone else disappointed? | 10 hours ago | 250 |
| Oscar nominations for this film | 42 days ago | 118 |
| THE DARK KNIGHT RISES VS SKYFALL(leaving avengers which is the best but completely diff movie) | 38 days ago | 56 |
| Rank the Batman Movies | 43 days ago | 25 |
| Should There Be a Sequel or Spin-off Movie? | 2 months ago | 21 |
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