Why do we fall?

Rating: 8/10 (20 July 2012)

At last we have the conclusion of Christopher Nolan's take of the batman franchise.
After two successful films from following the Bruce Wayne's origins on becoming the dark knight and taking on his most famous and psychotic villain the Joker, we are finally brought Bane "The only villain to break the bat". Now this film was an successful end to the trilogy that I am glad to say I was apart off during the beginning but that is not with out its flaws which I will get more into throughout my review.
The Dark Knight Rises take place eight years after the death of Harvey dent in which Batman has been victimised in being a murderer to Gothams "White knight". Bruce Wayne has recluse himself from the outside struggling to cope with the death of his child hood sweetheart and have his own city betray the batman. Christian bale makes his final appearance as Bruce Wayne/Batman a performance of his career showing why we have taken such a point to why this batman series has been the most anticipated series yet and why Christian Bale has marked his place for this role.
Michael Cain returns as Alfred and not having much on screen time as others, the time we do have with Alfred are very emotional as we have done in the past 2 batman films. We see such a passionate and dedicated man Alfred really is to keeping his promise to Bruce Wayne's parents that he will take care of him.
Gary Oldman and Morgan Freeman performances are more or less the same we have seen in the past two films if not less.
Anne Hathaway plays as Cat woman who has had much criticism from the announcement that she will be playing cat woman. DO NOT let these criticisms fool you, She plays cat woman amazingly well and nails the performance perfectly.
Tom Hardy's performance as bane I felt was a little let down (due to the mask) All we can see from Tom Hardy is that he is a well built person and makes the physical side of bane as what we know. As I said with the mask I felt let his performance down besides the expressions we see from him, vocally there was not much there and I felt they could of just got a well built person to play bane.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays fellow Police office John Blake. Through the film I felt that there was going to be a twist with his character as we see him very interested in the batman and when we find out that he too was an orphan, alarm bells started to tick in my head but I will leave it as that.
Other cast members who I have not gone through also did a very good job.
For the final verdict on this conclusion of the dark knight. I felt not as much let down from the expectations of the film but I did not feel pleased as I did when I saw The Dark Knight. Now I do not know if this was the performance from the late Heath Ledger as the Joker who made us all believe he was mad and made his character his own. I am just hoping that this is the end of an amazing trilogy and a truly amazing experience.
So I will be giving The Dark Knight Rises 4/5