Day 202: The Dark Knight Rises

Directed By- Christopher Nolan

Writer(s)- Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan

Starring- Christian Bale, Morgan Freeman, Michael Cain, Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Anne Hathaway, Marion Cotillard

Critics Review- "Christopher Nolan's dramatically and emotionally satisfying wrap-up to the Dark Knight trilogy adroitly avoids cliches and gleefully subverts your expectations at every turn."- Lou Lumenick "New York Post"

Rotten Tomatoes Rating- Critics- 86% Audience- 96%

Out of a possible 5 stars- 5 stars

WARNING CONTAINS SOME MILD SPOILERS

My Review-

Before watching this movie, I had an idea in my head of how I would start off this review. However once the credits started to roll that all went out the window. This movie was everything I expected and more. This was a great way to end for Nolan to end is Batman series. First off lets start at where this all began.

Seven years ago we saw the release of a new Batman film; new actors and different take on the well known Batman story; it was darker, gritter, and changing the way we look at Batman forever. I will admit I am more scared of Christian Bale as Batman then any other actor that portrayed him before. We had never really seen a Batman film done this way before, it was also more emotional and showed us as an audience the motivation behind Bruce Wayne becoming Batman.

Then in 2008 came The Dark Knight, which is know widely considered to be possibly one of the best superhero films ever made. We saw what can happen if Batman was pushed to his limit, by man who just wanted to watch the world burn "The Joker" wonderfully acted by the late Heath Ledger. This showed us how the people Bruce loved the most were the ones that were going to get hurt and if you wanted to stand for something good and be that symbol, you would have to take the fall for someone else's actions, even though if though if those actions were someone who was going to be the symbol for what was good and right and what happened to a man who had been corrupted Harvey Dent who would be corrupted into Two-Face after losing everything. It should us that maybe Batman was needed right now and maybe when the time was right he would come back, and that time finally arrived.

This morning came out The Dark Knight Rises, the last Batman movie from Christoper Nolan bringing the end to his Batman trilogy, and like everyone I had to see it opening day even if it was at 3:30 in the morning, and man what a great way to end it this Trilogy. Like I said before it was everything I wanted and more, and  this time the villain was the one and only "Bane". A man who would test Bruce Wayne both physically and mentally, we wanted as he put it break his "soul". We also saw what everyone wanted to see he broke Batman's back during possibly one of the best fight sequences I have ever seen, complete silence, just both of them fighting hand to hand. Tom Hardy's portrayal of Bane was menacing (way more menacing then the Bane from Batman & Robin), and ruthless, he was also smart he had a reason for everyone move he made against Bruce Wayne and what he planned to do to Gotham. This movie takes place eight years after the events of the The Dark Knight and we see what it has been like with Batman missing. There are certain events that unfold, that make Bruce Wayne take up the cowl once more. which leads up the ultimate fight sequence which in my opinion is one of the best fight sequences I have ever seen, it was in complete silence, and all there was the sounds of Bane and Batman's grunting and punches landing. it was well shot and well done because it kept my heart pounding and me at the edge of my seat during the whole fight scene. This lead to what the movie was going to be about Bane taking over Gotham, along the way we see some pretty great cameo's from the first two movies. One of the best parts of this movie was all the scenes that were shot in IMAX, which was one of the only ways to watch this movie was in IMAX to experience how it was meant to be seeing. especially the last fight sequence. Now with the acting at first going into this movie I was 50/50 on Anne Hathaway being Selina Kyle but she was so good and it was different from what she normally does, another person I had no doubt was going to be really good was Joseph Gordon-Levitt as John Blake who turns out to be a character I will not mention. Some of the most emotional scenes were between Christian Bale and Michael Cain to the point where I was almost on the verge of tears. This by far one of the Best Batman films ever made, it was heart-pounding more emotional, had more engaged in the fight sequences. Lastly it was backed by Hans Zimmer's amazing score. I will truly miss this franchise since this the last one. In my opinion Christopher Nolan ended this on a good note. He did an amazing job telling his interpretation  of the Bruce Wayne story. This one movie not to be missed in theaters. I myself plan to watch this movie again.