complete and fully realized

Rating: 10/10 (22 July 2012)

I'm glad I watched Batman Begins the night before I went to The Dark Night Rises. With Heath Ledger's interpretation of an anarchist joker ranking as one of the best movie villains of all time the second movie stands alone not just from the franchise but from most movies. The first and the third however fit together nicely Batman Begins is the construction of Christopher Nolen's Batman myth and The Dark Night Rises is the deconstruction. Of course there are a few things I would have liked to be different but most of the story was great. It seems the third chapter in a trilogy is the most difficult and Mr. Noland has done a better job than most closing out this franchise.