It Solidifies Nolan's Batman Franchise

Rating: 10/10 (19 October 2012)

The Dark Knight Rises is a superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan, who co-wrote the screenplay with his brother Jonathan Nolan and the story with David S. Goyer. Featuring the DC Comics character Batman, the film is the third and final installment in Nolan's Batman film trilogy, and it is the sequel to The Dark Knight.
Christian Bale reprises the lead role of Bruce Wayne and Batman, with a returning cast of Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth, Gary Oldman as James Gordon, Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox, and Cillian Murphy as Dr. Jonathan Crane. It introduces two main characters to Nolan's series: Selina Kyle,portrayed by Anne Hathaway, a cat burglar whose appearance in Gotham City sets in motion a chain of events that leads Batman to come out of retirement; and Bane,played by Tom Hardy, a mercenary whose objective is to destroy Gotham with a thermonuclear weapon.
It has been eight years since Batman vanished into the night, turning, in that instant, from hero to fugitive. Assuming the blame for the death of D.A. Harvey Dent, the Dark Knight sacrificed everything for what he and Commissioner Gordon both hoped was the greater good. For a time the lie worked, as criminal activity in Gotham City was crushed under the weight of the anti-crime Dent Act. But everything will change with the arrival of a cunning cat burglar with a mysterious agenda. Far more dangerous, however, is the emergence of Bane, a masked terrorist whose ruthless plans for Gotham drive Bruce out of his self-imposed exile. But even if he dons the cape and cowl again, Batman may be no match for Bane.
There was an opportunity here for Nolan to show us another way, to stretch the boundaries of what is possible in a superhero film. Instead, alas, the latter half of The Dark Knight Rises retreats toward conventionality.But nevertheless,it solidifies this three-part tale of the Batman legend as one of the best ever told.Added to that,it is an intelligent, gripping, complex and suitably satisfying end to what is now and could now regarded as the best comic adaptation trilogy of all time even this film it doesn't quite meet the high standard set by its predecessor.