The Dark Knight Rises Reviews
Fresno Bee
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.
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| Original Score: B
Canada.com
Every facet of this impressive piece reaffirms the same thematic gristle as it forces the viewer to chew on the notion of personal responsibility.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Toledo Blade
The Dark Knight Rises is all about risks, and there are payoffs and failures to go with it.
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| Original Score: 4/4
National Post
This is a solid film, taking itself seriously and asking that we do the same.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Concrete Playground
An ambitious, honourable and satisfying conclusion to this genre-defining trilogy.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Bangitout.com
The Dark Knight Rises directly counters the arguments made against The Dark Knight. Maybe, sometimes, it is better to leave the demons unvanquished.
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| Original Score: 3/4
eFilmCritic.com
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.
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)
Weighed down by portentousness and momentousness. The overall story remains a bit muddled. A better trilogy-capper than a movie in its own right.
Movie Metropolis
There's plenty of action, intrigue, special effects, and high-tech gadgets to maintain our attention at least in spurts.
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| Original Score: 7/10
Projection Booth
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.
| Original Score: 3/4
TheShiznit.co.uk
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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| Original Score: 5/5
ScreenRant
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.
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| Original Score: 4/5
The Aristocrat
... 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.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Shotgun Critic
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.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Flix Capacitor
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.
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| Original Score: 5/5
We Got This Covered
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.
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| Original Score: 9.5/10
Examiner.com
[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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| Original Score: 3/4
CinePassion
Every shred of wit, mystery and humanity is pummeled out, leaving only a bullish mishmash of zeitgeisty anxiety
ColeSmithey.com
Disconnected significantly from the flow of logic between the first and second installments of Christopher Nolan's "Batman" films, "The Dark Knight Rises" is a disjointed mess.
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| Original Score: C-
