The Dark Knight Rises... Rises... Rises More, then Clunks Downward Spiral - A Movie Review

The end of Christopher Nolan's fantastic trilogy starts promising, gives a kick-ass plot and introduces interesting new characters(at the expense of Batman) yet it climaxes in the most conventional manner of summer blockbusters.

Eight years later, Bruce Wayne has retired as Batman (Christian Bale) and with the assistance of Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman). However, with the arrival of the mysterious burglar, Selina Kyle (Anne Hathaway), and the beautiful entrepreneur, Miranda Tate (Marion Cotillard), also comes the brewing danger of a masked killer Bane (Tom Hardy) and his Gotham of its true nature.

The premise of the movie deserves it's moment even though critically acclaimed The Dark Knight was a very hard movie to follow. However, it fall short of its predecessor. One of the reasons of the success of TDK was because of its central villain, a performance worthy of attention and praise, which is lacking in Rises.

Bale's performance is as stunning as his companions reprising their roles(Oldman, Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine). However, the surprise performance of the movie would be Hathaway's as she brings interest and freshness to the role as Catwoman.

The cinematography, along with the visual effects, conveys perfectly the profound message that Nolan and the other writers(Jonathan Nolan, and David S. Goyer[story]). However, it is clear that they had trouble finding a bombastic end to the franchise without loosing the quality and the grittiness. The end result was clunky, unrealistic and predictable, as all summer blockbusters usually do. Unlike in the case of The Avengers, this was unwelcome for The Dark Knight trilogy.

Howevr, even with the obvious flaws of the movie, I am happy to inform you that one can have a great time with this in the big screen. Three stars out of Five