Christian Bale isn't playing Batman. He is Batman.

Rating: 10/10 (3 August 2012)

First of all I want to say, I was a little hesitant seeing this movie. Partially because while the films were great I had a few Nitpicks on it. Specifically the way Bale and to an extent Nolan made the portrayal of Batman. Bale had to play multiple roles, there was Bruce Wayne public mode: The Drunken Billionaire Playboy, Bruce Wayne private mode: the sad angry man before he becomes the bat and then The Batman, the near legendary figure that criminals tell scary stories about. Bale was good at both Bruces and body language wise (such as the Joker interrogation.) he was a good Batman, but that voice was so irritating. The fight scenes were barely visible because during the fights someone always blocks the camera, all you could see was the fist being raised and the guy on the receiving end falling over. When rises came around I saw some surprising changes, one Bale's Batman voice became less irritating and more intimidating. When he interrogated Bane he actually sounded ticked off and not just pulling an act to scare him. 2 I could see the fights, more specifically the fights between him and Bane, and they were better than what Begins and Dark Knight did. The free for all in the climax looked almost shot for shot like a modern day version of Enter The Dragon's final fight. The fixed nitpicks aside, Rises is by far the best of the three, sorry Heath you are a great Joker, but Rises was the better movie. Now all we need is a good editor to fit them all together like they did the Godfather Saga.