We have waited four years for this--the "epic conclusion" to Christopher Nolan's (director to Academy Award-winning movie, Inception) Batman trilogy. In the last movie, we always felt this "don't let me f*cking wait for two more years for the next movie" feeling; but then we seemed to be patient enough and the wait looks like it has paid off. In this latter bat-experience, we will get a stingy feeling of resemblance to our prior. Enter the "don't f*cking end this series, I'd die to see more, please, pretty please, goddamn please" feeling. You see, Christopher Nolan, one of my favorite directors, never fails to deliver gritty entries to the mainstreams, 'Inception' was one of his betters, and 'The Dark Knight' (sequel to 'Batman Begins') I'm certain will have to be his best yet. 'The Dark Knight Rises' fall under the prior category.
Over the years, Nolan's Bat-Trilogy sustains the violence, the thrill and the heroism that captured both comic and non-comic book persons. 'The Dark Knight Rises', I'm happy to tell everyone, serve one good purpose...to prove this notion a fact.
Gotham City was eight years ago a venue of an epic-scale battle between the caped crusader and the troubled and fiendish, Joker. This lead to Harvey Dent's death, a figure that the city always looked up to. To Bruce Wayne's (Christian Bale) liking, he has permitted Dent to assume Batman's personality, with his grave; even though philanthropist of Wayne enterprises Bruce is really the one who is behind the salvation of the nearly destroyed Gotham. Now, a storm is coming, as Selena aka Cat (Catwoman, played by Anne Hathaway) , an expert in stealing jewelries, tried to startle Bruce Wayne. The threat means an underground army consisting common thugs who like to take down the city because whose belief is that the city is filled with the corrupt, headed by Bane (an extremely buff Tom Hardy) is up and ready for an attack.
Bane, who will be the center of all things dark in the film, will command attention to the public, especially to Batman, telling them that a fire will rise...vengeance that is left so long it burns passionately. Making Gotham again a battlefield, Bane and his as fiendish crew starts to take over the city. And in only three months, it will be a setting for another clash between good and evil...between the dark and the darker. After eight long years of recluse, trying to move on from the damage that the former battle had caused, the caped crusader will have to rise once more to finish the business that is budding real fast.
I have to come clean: at first I was entirely worried that the movie might just fall flat and not come even with its iconic predecessor. But then I think about it, 'Rises' doesn't need to be...all I needed was a threequel, a conclusion to a trilogy that will get me what I wanted. And I luckily had more. With TDKR, I admittedly was left with a sting of anxiety: is it over? I know I don't want to. Funny, as I was expecting at least a bit of disappointment that struck me in the head, because it is something that never came to my awareness. Disappointment, may have vivid presence to many people but strangely, to me, disappointment in 'The Dark Knight Rises' is something that almost does not exist. More precisely, it is a ghost, or any other folklore that you have no certainty on whether or not it truly exists.
'Rises' offers very good performances that were so affecting: exhilarating, frightening and heartbreaking. Joseph Gordon-Levitt ([500] Days of Summer, 50/50) plays Blake, a protagonist that has admiration with Bruce and gradually learns more about his alter ego. Levitt has always been a Film Police favorite and in fact is watched out in future films like 'Looper' and 'Premium Rush'. Joseph Gordon-Levitt keeps up with "given excellent" actors like Morgan Freeman, Marion Cotillard, Gary Oldman and Michael Caine. Tom Hardy as the main villain was the "less witty humor but more startling evil" type. I have completely misjudged Anne Hathaway; I finally find out something more about her than just nailing a Disney teen-flick, 'Princess Diaries'. She was gritty in her performance and made me want to look out for the upcoming 'Les Misérables' reinvention, although the Liam Nesson version was already superb. Speaking, Neeson shines instantly in a cameo.
While the third doesn't count as the "best" among the trilogy, 'The Dark Knight Rises' is a conclusion that you don't even want to have concluded the movie series. You simply don't want these movies to end, even if it means to wait another four years. A
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