The Dark Knight Rises is entertaining, a good way to end the trilogy.

Rating: 6/10 (20 June 2013)

I'm usually not one for super hero movies but I think Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy is particularly enjoyable. Not only is it action packed and features quite a number of very respectable actors, but the plots are more complex than your typical "good-guy-defeats-bad- guy-and-saves-the-world" story you see so often in super hero movies. I was wondering if this film would be able to follow The Dark Knight. Heath Ledger's Joker was legendary. Tom Hardy as Bane was quite scary though, a great villain to end the trilogy with. He was extremely brutal yet demonstrated intelligence and cunning despite his brutality. I would definitely not want to cross paths with him.
I've always preferred Batman to the other super heroes. I guess what I like about him is that he doesn't have magical powers. His super power is being super rich. Not that anything he does is realistic, but the fact that he's not magical makes him seem a little more believable than the others. That's what I like about him. Also there's something really captivating about his dark persona. He's an angry super hero. He wears all black. It's almost as if there's a little bit of villain in him as well. I think blurring the lines between good and evil a little bit makes him more appealing to me as well.
I really don't want to say too much about the film because I don't want to spoil it for anyone who happens to read this and hasn't seen it yet. I really enjoyed it though. I particularly liked the portrayal of Cat Woman, played by Anne Hathaway. Instead of depicting her as a woman one step beyond "Cat Lady" with a black suit and kitty ears, they focused more on the fact that Selena Kyle is a burglar. Her outfit suggested cat, with binoculars that looked like cat ears when put on top of her head. Yet not once did anyone call her Cat Woman which I really liked. I think Cat Woman can be made quite silly in many films (ex: Halle Berry in Cat Woman; she looked like a cat stripper). This Cat Woman was my favorite though.