Christopher Nolan returns to the "Dark Knight" franchise with yet another spectacular movie experience

Rating: 10/10 (21 November 2012)

Set eight years after the events of the Dark Knight, Bruce Wayne (no an aged recluse) is forced to return as batman due to the emergence of a new evil in the form of Bane(played by Tom Hardy).
The film is flawlessly acted. The ensemble cast of Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine, Tom Hardy, Morgan Freeman and Gary Oldman( among others) all play their roles convincingly. The film truly is a spectacle, I have seen this film on three occasions and the epic grandeur of each set piece never ceased to amaze me. I truly do not understand the criticims of this film, so I would like to address them.Some people claimed the film was "dreary" and overlong. I disagree, the whole purpose of the film was to be "dreary" and heavy. Bane is the first villain in the series that can match(and is perhaps superior) Batman both physically and mentally,as an audience we're supposed feel a sense of hopelessness and to downgrade a film for that is unjustified as many films have that very same purpose eg.Pursuit of Happiness I do not the film is too long because every scene is vital to the film and removing one would render it "incoherent", as well films such as Titanic and Avatar have longer running times and were cinematic successes. I tried earnestly to find plot holes but I still could not. Those who claim the film does not add up, obviuously did not understand the plot and perhaps have become accustomed to being fed answers without any requirement to think. Christopher Nolan devotes himself to his films and treats them with great care. His direction and stroytelling is evident in this film and is one of his strongest films to date, although a prefer the "Dark Knight" purely for the performance of Heath Ledger which Tom Hardy was narrowly beaten by in the villain stakes.