This is all my preference and my opinion.
The Dark Knight Rises is the third installment in the Christopher Nolan Batman Trilogy. The film stars Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne, he's of course, Batman. Anne Hathaway as the irritating Catwoman. Tom Hardy in his anti-bad*ss role as Bane, not how I expected, not menacing enough and I felt he was under-used. As you can probably tell this film was very disappointing for me, I say that as an avid Nolan fan and a major fan of the previous two Batman films. I'll talk more of the disappointments throughout the review. The additional cast includes: Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth, Gary Oldman as Commissioner Gordon, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Morgan Freeman.
The Plot: I won't be going too much into as the film is ultimately a cluster-fudge. Batman has been out of action for 8 years, Bane shows up with more plans than Batman is aware... Then there is a million other things that don't need to be there at all, the film would have been better on a smaller scale. Nolan films usually have this grand, epic scale, when I say epic, I don't mean big, that's what the scale of the The Dark Knight Rises is, big, and it's too much for the running time.
The performances: Bale is good, but he was better in The Dark Knight and Batman Begins. Anne Hathaway was outright irritating as Catwoman, she has no chemistry with anyone. Tom Hardy is ok as Bane, he's good at times, but ultimately not intimidating enough, he needed to be more hard-hitting with his presence on the screen, he didn't feel like much of a threat like The Joker is in The Dark Knight. The rest of the cast is nothing special, except for Michael Cain is great as always, as is Oldman. Freeman didn't seem there.
The Technical Aspects: They're very good, but it doesn't have that Nolan polish to it. It may have something to do with the fact that the pacing is awful, it may have made the editing seem shoddy. Cinematography is good yet again, but the polish isn't there for me.
The Writing: The script is outright bad at times, the way Anne Hathaway presents her lines is outright terrible. Bane has a very memorable quote, he by far has the best lines "When Gotham is ashes, you have my permission to die" Great line, but it doesn't compare to the dozens of incredible lines that Heath Ledger has as Joker in The Dark Knight "I'm an agent of chaos".
Re-Watch-ability: Very low, possibly re-visit the film in a few years, but next to nothing. There's nothing to keep me coming back.
The Verdict: The Dark Knight Rises is no where near as good as Nolan's other two in the Batman trilogy, nor any of his other films. It's like he didn't even direct it. It's technically a Nolan film but it's not a Nolan film at heart, it doesn't have that Nolan finesse to it, the grand-ness to his films isn't there. I give The Dark Knight Rises a 3/10. The biggest disappointment of my life. It has it's moments, but ultimately a cluster-fudge, too much crammed into the running time. Thank you for reading my review! This is all my opinion.
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