It's about pain

Rating: 7/10 (3 August 2012)

Batman Begins was about fear, TDK was about chaos....here Nolan completes his Batman trilogy with a tightly themed disaster movie about pain.
Considering this was never planned as a trilogy, the links back to the previous films are set up perfectly. Bale and Caine give their best performances to date, Tom Hardy conveys the brutality and intellect of Bane brilliantly, but the big surprise for me is Anne Hathaway- who nails the character of Selina Kyle.
The film isn't without its flaws (a product of too many characters), but the last 30mins took me on a roller-coaster of emotions- a fitting end to the definitive Batman story.