Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale provided an exciting and heartfelt conclusion to the Batman movie series with The Dark Knight Rises

Rating: 9/10 (2 August 2012)

Just watched this, the third and final movie in the Christopher Nolan-Christian Bale series of Batman films. This one takes place eight years after The Dark Knight. Both the Caped Crusader and Bruce Wayne have been inactive during that time-enough time for a new terrorist named Bane (Thomas Hardy) to threaten Gotham City. There's also a jewel thief named Selina Kyle (Anne Hathaway) who may or not eventually be persuaded to join Batman when the eventual battle begins...This one takes its time in getting to the exciting conclusion but when it does, it's very worthy of a series finale! New characters played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Marion Cotillard are also worthy not to mention the additional return of Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox, Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth, and Gary Oldman as Commissioner James W. Gordon. There were also some other returning players that were a pleasant surprise to me but I won't reveal them here. Anyway, on that note, I very highly recommend The Dark Knight Rises. P.S. My heart goes out to all those 12 killed and 58 injured as the result of one man's massacre in that Aurora, Colo., theatre during the premiere midnight screening there. And since I live in the Baton Rouge area in Louisiana, I'm especially glad that one of those 58, 18-year-old Bonnie Kate Pourciau, seems to recover with positive attitude intact especially since she also saved fellow traveling BR friend, Elizabeth Sumrall, during that awful day.