A well capped end to the trilogy, bringing everything full circle and story closure

Rating: 9/10 (20 July 2012)

TDKR: Christopher Nolan pulls off the PRESTIGE with TDKR.
Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called "The Pledge". The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course... it probably isn't. -----Batman Begins The second act is called "The Turn". The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret... but you won't find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn't clap yet. Because making something disappear isn't enough; you have to bring it back. -----The Dark Knight That's why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call "The Prestige"." -----The Dark Knight Returns
Far from flawless, inferior to TDK, but it stands OK on its on and as the capper to the Dark Knight Trilogy its pretty grand. Most grievances remain, Bales Batman voice is unchanged and awful, the suit / cowl are a bit strange, the romances are tad forced. Bane is a tough swallow, his mask is atrocious and his voice with the treble cranked through the roof is ghastly. What works almost astonishingly well is Catwoman aka Selina Kyle. A kinetic ride to the end.