The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Average Rating: 8/10
Reviews Counted: 299
Fresh: 260 | Rotten: 39
The Dark Knight Rises is an ambitious, thoughtful, and potent action film that concludes Christopher Nolan's franchise in spectacular fashion.
Average Rating: 7.9/10
Critic Reviews: 48
Fresh: 36 | Rotten: 12
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
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Anne Hathaway
Selina, Selina Kyle -
Tom Hardy
Bane -
Marion Cotillard
Miranda, Miranda Tate -
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Blake, John Blake -
Michael Caine
Alfred -
Gary Oldman
Commissioner Gordon, Go... -
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 Fol... -
Tom Conti
Prisoner -
Joey King
Older Prison Child, You... -
Chris Ellis
Fr. Reilly, Priest -
Brett Cullen
Congressman, Judge -
Josh Stewart
Bane's Mercenary, Barsa... -
Daniel Sunjata
Captain Jones, GPD Spec... -
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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.
There 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.
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.
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.
The Dark Knight Rises, the year's silliest and most stubbornly self-serious blockbuster, arrives on Blu-ray with a flawed A/V transfer and a slew of largely inessential extras.
Weighed down by portentousness and momentousness. The overall story remains a bit muddled. A better trilogy-capper than a movie in its own right.
It makes an acceptable, if somewhat anticlimactic, conclusion to the three-part story arc. (Blu-ray Combo edition)
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.
Nolan's finale isn't perfect, and may not be the greatest installment of the trilogy, but it solidifies this three-part tale of the Batman legend as one of the best ever told.
... if Gotham falls, so does Bruce Wayne. Rarely, in film, have we understood and sympathised with a hero's mission as much as Bruce's.
The Dark Knight Rises succeeds in surpassing 2008's 'The Dark Knight' to become the best of his three films. Whether that will be enough to secure his Best Picture Oscar is frankly irrelevant - because what matters is that this is Batman's best picture.
Though not without the odd minor niggle, The Dark Knight Rises is an intelligent, gripping, complex and suitably satisfying end to what is now - quite easily - the best comic adaptation trilogy of all time.
The Dark Knight Rises is the film event of the summer. A completely satisfying piece of filmmaking that delivers so much more, making for an excellent sign off for one of cinema's finest trilogies.
[It] may be the weakest film in the trilogy, but it is still a satisfactory and exciting conclusion to what has been the greatest treatment of any superhero in film history.
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- Commissioner Gordon: There's only one man with his finger on the button. That's Bane!
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- Bane: Ahh, you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was a man. But it was nothing to me but blinding.
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- Bane: Let's not stand on ceremony here. Mr. Wayne.
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- Bane: The shadows betray you, because they belongs to me.
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- Stryver: You're pure evil.
- Bane: I'm necessary evil.
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- Bane: The shadows betray you, because they belong to me.
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