Gargantuan Christian Bale & Awesome Anne!

Rating: 10/10 (21 July 2012)

This is the ultimate cinematic experience and I have never enjoyed any other film as much. Ever! I mean...it's tremendous! What is it- a superhero film? No, it is so much more! Crime thriller, action film- there's so much to savor- eyes, brain and ears also engaged under Hans Zimmer's explosive percussive concussive music score!
Vicious, emotional, bold, dramatic, powerful, thrilling, nasty and funny too! Anne Hathaway is superb and dominates many scenes (acting-wise and a bit dominatrix too- wait until you see her heels!), Tom Hardy is pure ultra-violence and I understood every muffled word (well almost!) and his Bane is just such a nasty, nasty bastard! Michael Caine is great of course, the ultimate paternal figure-I wish he could adopt me! Joseph Gordon-Levitt cuts a determined, stoic figure and adds soul into the proceedings along with the classy Gary Oldman.
But finally to Christian Bale... honestly, the man is GARGANTUAN here as Batman. I think he is the best actor to ever play a 'superhero' and the best Batman by a large distance. You believe that this man COULD take on Gotham's criminal underbelly single-handed and punch a rib up through its body and out its mouth!
My final word is this- the press reviews were right; an ending of satisfaction and purpose, so meaningful, full of emotion. When the credits rolled I clapped applause along with many of the other Wimbledon IMAX audience- never known that before! The bloke next to me jumped up and did a hip hop dance- yep, it was THAT good. I'll always remember the day I first saw Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan's masterpiece.