Fitting end to one of the best trilogies ever!

Rating: 10/10 (22 July 2012)

There can't be too much said about the brilliance of Christopher Nolan - the man is a genius, a true visionary. And the man doesn't seem to be able to make serious mistakes in the movie business... he amazes me always.
The Dark Knight Rises is everything I hoped it would be and perhaps even more. You see the brown-toned Batman Begins and think: Hey man, I love where he is going with this. Then the dark-blue-toned The Dark Knight shows us the power of chaos and we feel blue at the end, yet hopeful. And the conclusion is this greyish brilliance of The Dark Knight Rises.
Bane is in my opinion not as great villain as The Joker was in the previous film, but in a difficult and a bit thankless role, I think the masterful Tom Hardy has done a great job. Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman and the always wonderful Michael Caine do their parts so well always, and this time Michael Caine managed to make me weep at the movies. Really moving performance. Marion Cotillard and Anne Hathaway are great as well, and I love this version of Selina Kyle, although in my opinion Michelle Pfeiffer will always be the sexiest one :-) And yes, I think Joseph Gordon-Levitt was fantastic as well.
The plot is known to all but what I found truly great here is how events and persons and things are connected through all the films. I won't mention any of them because that would be spoiling things for some, but in my honest opinion I feel that there were no loose ends left. Everything comes together and at the end I felt grateful to Christopher Nolan and his co-workers for making this amazing film - one of the best this year. I will see the trilogy straight when TDKR comes to DVD/BlueRay. I will do that regularly.
Hans Zimmer is one of my favorite composers and he doesn't hit a fail note here. The "deshi pasha" chant is so powerful, love it. And even though I loved him working with James Newton Howard on the first two... this is fitting.
There is an escapism in going to the movies, most of the times for me at least. But due to so many things, this movie is reality related and I connect with it. And there are so many lines from Michael Caine here that I take to heart ...
Really moving, a very fitting end to an amazing trilogy. I will see it again... and again ...