Dark Knight Rises above it's competitors

Rating: 10/10 (22 December 2012)

So Christopher Nolan brings forward the final installment of the reboot trilogy after the last group of movies was subsequently butchered by Joel Schumachers Batman and Robin.
Lets start with the good, I don't care what anyone says about the ending. For me it was whole heartedly satisfying and it absolutely did the trilogy justice. The storyline was brilliant even if it was a little bleak at times but hey, thats an appealing factor of all of Chris Nolan's movies. The acting was top notch from every actor. Chris Nolan has been criticised for using the same troupe of actors in most of his movies. There has only been one good Chris Nolan movie that didn't feature Christian Bale (Inception). But you can see why here. Every actor brings they're A game to the table. The special effects were brilliant, at the perfect point between the ridiculously bad graphics of The Last Airbender yet not so overdone as any Michael Bay movie.
Now the bad. To be honest the only complaints of this movie were that I didn't think that Tom Hardy as Bane could top Heath Ledger as the Joker and for me he didn't. He still did a great job as Bane though with his malicious voice and villainous swagger. Finally, I wasn't the hugest fan of Anne Hathaway. She was still great but after hearing that she was selected ahead of Natalie Portman, I definitely would have gone with Portman. However it could turn out badly as Jake Gyllenhaal was a possible Batman actor and that would have been terrible. Esecially that scene in the Dark Knight where Bruce and Rachel (Maggie Gyllenhaal, his sister not his wife) kiss in his penthouse. Ewww incest.
So to rap up, The Dark Knight Rises is the best movie of the year even though The Dark Knight was better in my opinion. This movie is certainly worth the money they charge for it and I rate this at number 17 in my personal best movies i've ever seen list.