The Dark Knight Rises 2012 by AverageMansReviews

The Dark Knight Rises 2012 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/shooting/medical/torture/kamikaze/suicide/disfigurement/stabbing/breaking

8 years have passed since we and the people of Gotham have seen Batman: being Batman or connected to Batman or doing the best for Gotham City has taken its toll in some way or ways on Bruce Wayne/Batman [Christian Bale,] Alfred Pennyworth [Michael Caine] and Commissioner Jim Gordon [Gary Oldman.] But from over the horizon The League of Shadows has a new face as their leader by the name of Bain [Tom Hardy,] but someone is responsible for allowing him to be unleashed on to Gotham. Bruce Wayne/Batman has an unpredictable and not to be trusted cat in his corner Selina Kyle/Catwoman [Anne Hathaway,] an GCPD Officer/Detective John Blake [Joseph Gordon-Levitt] and Lucius Fox [Morgan Freeman] the CEO and vice President of Wayne Enterprises which is trying to keep this empire up and going and away from the hands of John Daggett [Ben Mendelsohn] and if that wasn't enough we have Dr. Jonathan Crane a.k.a. Scarecrow [Cillian Murphy] passing judgements; yes if you are keeping score that would mean this character/performer appears throughout this trilogy in all three films in some part, so on a quick side note if you enter any quizzes and if it should happen that you have a question like this; name the four characters that are in The Dark Knight trilogy? They would be Bruce Wayne/Batman, Alfred Pennyworth, Lucius Fox and we have Dr. Jonathan Crane/a.k.a. Scarecrow, I have written it this way because for those fussy people that say Scarecrow does not appear in this film [visually as Scarecrow] this would be technically correct.

The pacing for this 165 minutes film is excellent, because as you can see from the length of this film it would quite clearly suggest that there is a lot of things to get a through and it just smoothly gets through its content with gear changes to it, depending on what is appropriate for that time, be it slow or you know consistently moving with a dialogue exchanges giving them time to breathe and concentrate on the point it is at that time. For an example in short Alfred Pennyworth tells Bruce Wayne the truth about the letter from Rachel Dawes and he can't do this anymore or these lengthy action sequences which are high octane action, be it when Bruce Wayne/Batman makes his return known on his Batbike where at some point in this sequence he shoots at this lorry car transport [where you have these cars on the back of this lorry in sets of two ramps one at the bottom and one on the top,] he does this because he is trapped and needs a way out so he shoots to release these ramps and use of them to escape by jumping on/on his bike to continue the chasing sequence, this is imaginative and at the end of this sequence they think they have them trapped, but without giving too much away they so don't, so not once but twice Bruce Wayne/Batman escapes with comical tone or elements by actions or dialogue exchanges. The artistic vision and tones of this film are beautifully spot on as they put across what it is like to live in Gotham and the fact that things have slightly changed for the better, but you still get the feeling of the downtrodden and decaying elements of this city including in my next example of when things just get darker in tone [but I should quickly point out we do get some eye-catching colourful sequences as well such as Heinz Field the home of the NFL team the Pittsburgh Steelers and this sequence/scenery where Bruce Wayne/Batman is on his final task.]

Bain vs. Bruce Wayne/Batman these action sequences on the other hand are very much still excellent and all of that, but they are done in such a more darker tone as Alfred Pennyworth tries to warn Bruce Wayne [this is way before he couldn't do this any more] that he is essentially a killing machine and Bain proves this against anyone that stands in his way or fulfils their purpose consequently has no need for them or they irritate him. But back to these specific action sequences with Bain vs. Bruce Wayne/Batman; Bain just pounds Bruce Wayne/Batman into the ground and whatever Bruce Wayne/Batman does Bain has an answer for it with more and more brutality. In fact they got nominated an award for one particular sequence; MTV Movie + TV Awards 2013; MTV Movie Award; Best Fight Christian Bale Tom Hardy Bale and Hardy face off as Batman and masked menace Bane, brawling beneath Gotham City's underbelly in a sewage smack-down marking the end of a trilogy.

The character developments and the performances are once again of a cast performance of the most highest standard; the toll as I have already mentioned in the opening section of this review on these three characters/performers is something you can see and feel as you can see individually this weight of this responsibility/burden is heavily weighing on them. The newcomers into this trilogy just gel/sloted right in as if they already knew what was required and expected of them and they just brought it. For two examples; Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA 2013; won Saturn Award; Best Supporting Actress Anne Hathaway [at the same event/ceremony] nominee Best Supporting Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

This film receives: 10/10, this film is top-notch entertainment; this sets the benchmark for what standard a Batman film needs to be like; yes absolutely it can be different interpretations and so on and so forth that Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan [brothers] and David S. Goyer [story for this trilogy] were instrumental in bringing this trilogy to life be it director, screenplay for Christopher or Jonathan screenplay [he didn't work on Batman begins 2005.] This film was also nominated for a BAFTA; BAFTA Awards 2013; BAFTA Film Award; Best Special Visual Effects Paul J. Franklin Chris Corbould Pete Bebb Andrew Lockley; this film has accredited to its name 39 awards won and 103 nominated for, but I hasten to add not to discredit these figures, but just to cover my back just in case someone comes back to me in compliance; some of these awards are connected to other films that may or may not be in this trilogy.