Awesome Conclusion to the Legend of The Dark Knight.

Rating: 10/10 (21 July 2012)

At a run time of 2 hours 44, it never gets boring and the movie is quite evenly paced as there's so much story to tell. There are a couple of important twists towards the end. Once again it proves that a powerful script is the most essential part of a great movie. Just like the previous movies, the visual effects are good, especially here the IMAX footage comprises of around half of the movie.
Michael Caine's performance as Alfred is perhaps one of the the best performances in this movie. Just like Batman Begins, Christian Bale has a bigger role in the continuation of Bruce Wayne's story, which was mostly missed out in The Dark Knight. Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character as an idealistic cop John Blake, has one of the important roles in the movie. Surprisingly, they have altered the voice of Bane to make it sound a little more more legible than it sounded in the prologue that was premiered last December. Sadly, Cillian Murphy's character Scarecrow needed a bigger role than the 3 minutes he has. Bane's ending could have been a lot better which is the only low point of the movie.
Scarecrow in Batman Begins was there to induce fear, Joker in The Dark Knight was there to create chaos, and Bane is here to inflict pain. This movie focuses on shades of post 9/11 world, where a powerful terrorist (Bane) feared by everyone, holds a whole city captive ensuring any outside help impossible. There are some shades of anti-occupy Wall Street movement too, where Bane's henchmen literally attack Wall Street savagely beating the rich, dragging them out and promising the good people of Gotham to claim what is rightfully theirs. There are few sequences in homage to Batman Begins (including the signature line 'Why do we fall...') and story does come round a full circle around Ra's Al Ghul and League of Shadows.
Well, it couldn't have had a better ending than this to conclude the legend of the Dark Knight. A city, where people begin to stand and fight for their own without fear. A city that doesn't need to depend on Batman anymore...