Action

Rating: 8/10 (21 June 2014)

The Dark Knight Rises was one of the best movies made in the Batman series. It was filled with action and entertainment. The plot of the movie is the Dark Knight went into hiding because everyone in Gotham was made to believe that he killed the DA, Harvey Dent. Bruce Wayne even went into a state of staying out of the public eye. So Bane, who is the evil villain, enters into Gotham with intentions to take over the city and also expose the truth about what really happened with Harvey Dent. With Gotham in need of being saved, The Dark Knight comes out of hiding to go up against Bane. He gains a shaky side kick, Cat Woman. She is shady because before teaming up with The Dark Knight, she tricks Bruce Wayne by posing as a maid in his mansion in order to get his fingerprints so she could sell them. She gets double-crossed and decides to team up with The Dark Knight to save the city from Bane who blocked anyone from entering or leaving Gotham by threatening to set off a nuclear bomb in the city.
The theme of the movie is action and heroism. There are tons of action and fighting scenes that blew me away. They upgraded the bat mobile with new tricks and gadgets. He was able to blow it up and somehow it turned into a "bat mobike". The plane take over scene was particularly interesting because it was a live shot. The stunts they did in hijacking the plane were amazing because it wasn't built in a studio or digitally created.
The lighting in the film was dim and dark at times in which supports the title. It is interesting to see how the people of Gotham go from trying to hunt down The Dark Knight in order to kill him to needing him to save the city. The Dark Knight had something to prove to the city in order to redeem himself. The sound effects that were used for Bane's voice was made to sound like a megaphone. He had a mask over his face so it was muffled but yet chilling to hear because of the accent.
Overall the movie satisfied my expectations of providing a lot of action, excitement, thrills and reliefs. The theme of a hero who saves the day is right on target with the title of the movie.