The Dark Knight Rises
DVD - 2012
0780684907



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A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy's shoulders to let him know that the world hadn't ended.

There's a storm coming, Mr. Wayne. You and your friends better batten down the hatches, because when it hits, you're all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us.
I didn't see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but blinding. - Bain
The city needs Bruce Wayne, your resources, your knowledge. It doesn't need your body or your life. - Alfred
Might be time to get some fresh air, start paying attention to the details. Some of those details might need your help. - Blake
The Dark Knight Rises deals with the consequences of the characters actions. - Christopher Nolan (Director/Writer/Producer)
If we can get people to care about Bruce Wayne and care so much that they don't care whether or not he is in the costume, then we will have won. - David S. Goyer (Co-Writer, Story)
Bane: [to Batman] Peace has cost you your strength! Victory has defeated you!
Bane: Nobody cared who I was until I put the mask on. CIA Agent: If I take off your mask, will you die? Bane: It would be extremely painful. CIA Agent: You look like a tough guy...... Bane: For you. CIA Agent: Was getting caught part of your plan? Bane: Of course. CIA Agent: Well you did it! Now what's the next step in your master plan? Bane: Crashing this plane..............with no survivors!!!
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Add a SummaryThe Dark Knight rises. Bruce Wayne rises. Literally and figuratively.
Eight years after the death of Harvey Dent, the Batman is tested to return to Gotham when he is pit against the villainous Bane and the mysterious beauty Selina Kyle. But deep in the shadows, the League of Shadows has devised a plan for revenge against Batman.
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.

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Add a CommentI like to rate movies like grades in school, few A's more B's lot's of C's and some D's and some only rate a F grade. so this was a C- movie. We liked the first one and wanted to see the second trilogy and found it to be good but this last one is very mediocre we had a difficult time watching it to the end. About half way through I turned to my wife and asked, is this any good? & she answered marginal at best, but lets watch more to see if it will get any better. Ups a big mistake there are too many really good movies available so one does not have to wast time on a stinker like this.
However I am sure some will watch and find it just fine and give it a 5 star rating. I think people give way to many stars, if they liked it it is a 5. But that is life today everyone get the blue ribbon.
The entire trilogy is amazing. You can't compare one to the other because they are all unique in their own way.
Maybe I just wasn't ready for this franchise to conclude, but this was my least favorite of the Christian Bale as Batman movies. I really appreciated the performances put in by Anne Hathaway and Tom Hardy, but overall this story was just too bleak for me to really enjoy.
The final installment of Chris Nolan's Batman trilogy, "Rises" had the drawback of following what is now considered one of the biggest pictures in history, "The Dark Knight" (2008). With that said, where bigger doesn't necessarily mean better, "Rises" offers a much larger battle for the Bat against Bane and Gotham city's gangs. After appearing in Chris Nolan's "Inception" (2010), Tom Hardy achieves some of his earliest notoriety here portraying Bane. Where not eclipsing the Heath Ledger performance of the preivous film, the Bane character offers a combination of physical and mental strength not seen previously. Anne Hathaway, portraying Selina Kyle/Catwoman is easily the most effective - and best - of the female roles in any of the films since and including Burton's "Batman" (1989). Where the previous film is noted as more of a Ledger (Joker) picture, this one delves more into Bruce Wayne's psyche and weariness (battle scars intact), making this really Christian Bale's strongest piece in the trilogy. The film, overall, is really more brooding and darker than any thus far and with Gotham's future more bleak than ever, achieves the most emotionally-charged climax yet. Nolan's influences included the French Revolution and Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" (1859), as well as more directly Frank Miller's Batman adaptated series, "The Dark Knight Returns" (1986).
Everybody likes Dark Knight best; I like Rises best. But in the end the entire trilogy is quite incomparable.
The Dark Knight rises is the grande finale! A must watch for Christian Bale fans!
Christian Bale does it again. Great movie!
While not quite as good as The Dark Knight, the final installment in the trilogy is still a great movie. Kind of sad it ends at only three films, as I would love to have seen Nolan and Bale tackle other villains down the road, like Red Hood, Deathstroke, or Owlman.
Weak film. I think Nolan was set up to make two movies and it was demanded of him to create a third. You can see where that gets you. Not quite as over-hyped as Inception, but it's fairly close. Don't waste your time. If you must, read or watch some spoiler review.
An entertaining action-movie with a meaningful plot.