The Dark Knight Rises Reviews
IFC.com
In his last adventure under Christopher Nolan's guidance, the Dark Knight never quite rises to the occasion.
The Ooh Tray
Nolan's dour realism has turned the Batman experience into something like a sexless Eyes Wide Shut party.
Platform
The Dark Knight Rises is a tonally confused entity at its core. Simultaneously po-faced and ridiculous.
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| Original Score: 4/10
Film School Rejects
It is much bigger. But it's also much colder, much more dour and emptier as it plods its way through a flurry of chaos and silliness.
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| Original Score: C
Badass Digest
The whole movie feels so like a series of contradictions - bloated and long yet rushed, deeply serious yet utterly silly, politically minded yet ultimately vapid - that being both wildly entertaining and a bad movie would be exactly right for it.
Top CriticWhat worked beautifully in "The Dark Knight" seems overworked and almost ridiculously grim in "The Dark Knight Rises."
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
sbs.com.au
The film's poster tagline is more prescient than I am certain it ever intended to be, but it is right; the Legend has well and truly ended.
OK! Magazine
It's this series' version of The Matrix Revolutions, The Godfather Part III or Caddyshack 2.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
CinePassion
Every shred of wit, mystery and humanity is pummeled out, leaving only a bullish mishmash of zeitgeisty anxiety
Knight at the Movies
A joyless, bitter epic without a hint of exhilaration.
Urban Cinefile
Anne Hathaway is the best thing in this tediously overlong, disappointing final chapter of Christopher Nolan's Batman Trilogy
Urban Cinefile
.. it's a ticking bomb story, but a bloated one, full of the bling of blockbuster superhero filmmaking, from the giant stunts to the choreographed fight sequences and the large scale destruction of bridges, streets, and entire fleets of police vehicles.
TheDivaReview.com
The Dark Knight Rises is by far the worst of the trilogy and surprising in its ineptitude. Lifeless and overlong, one can't make many excuses for this dull, empty, unfocused mess that is a sad end to what was a wonderful ride.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
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.
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-
This is the problem when you're an exceptional, visionary filmmaker. When you give people something extraordinary, they expect it every time. Anything short of that feels like a letdown.
The history of Batman's burden is, however, increasingly cumbersome, and it's Mr. Bane who finally makes the pertinent point: "Gotham is beyond saving and must be allowed to die."
Sky Movies
The action too often feels shoehorned in to break up the (far from universally compelling) character arcs as Nolan and his sibling co-writer Jonathan draw everything to a cathartic close.
Financial Times
Pompous, oppressive, without humour or humans: a sort of giant plinth for which no one has remembered to make a statue.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Cinemalogue.com
Hollywood always bets on the audience's willingness to settle for less than they deserve.
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| Original Score: C-
