BAT needs the CAT this time !!

Rating: 8/10 (20 July 2012)

I had the privilege of watching "The Dark Knight Rises" on IMAX screen and the 70 odd minutes footage shot with IMAX camera.
The movie opens with the introduction of the most talked about villain of the movie, Bane who abducts a Russian nuclear physicist while Bruce Wayne spends his days crippled and low in morale. The cop John Blake brings the need for Batman to Bruce Wayne amidst the mysterious deaths happening at the city sewage outlet and the murder attempt on Commissioner Gordon conducted by Bane's mob. These events ignite the desire in Bruce Wayne to return to Gotham city and remove the peril cast upon Gotham City. In the due course, it is learned that the Bane is a rep. from The League Of Shadows whose interest lies in destroying the crime stricken Gotham city to restore balance in the human civilization. The arrival of the Batman is when Bane attacks the GSE(Gotham Stock Exchange) and tantalizes the taste of Bane's intellect. The cat-woman/Seline is employed by Bane's mob to steal Wayne's fingerprints to manipulate his stock holdings where Bruce is forced to be out of the Wayne Enterprises, depriving him of the support to/from the Applied Sciences department. Lucis Fox, as always, comes back with his latest innovation, The Bat, which is put to most use towards the climax. Miranda, who eventually romances with Bruce, saves the interests of Wayne Enterprise in the nuclear head which is part of a nuclear fusion project along with Lucis Fox, on the request of Bruce Wayne himself.
Catwoman cheats again on the Batman and sells him to Bane, who brutally beats down Batman and locks him up to get hold of his state of art artillery along with the nuclear war head. John Blake, made a detective by Commissioner Gordon, rambles around on the search for Bruce Wayne and finds that a large scale explosive deployment has been done by Bane while the Deputy Commissioner takes all the police force through the maintenance system to smoke up Bane. There comes the rugby match which gets affected by the serial bombing conducted by Bane alongside other city's bridges and places of prominence. This locks up the police under ground and further, the nuclear bomb threat limits the military action.
During his stay at the prison, Batman realizes that Ra's Al Ghul is behind the motive of Bane's to destroy Gotham and also learns about his past.
The Batman returns to action after enough hardship to escape from the prison on the advice of a doctor and finds Gotham in utter chaos after Bane manages to release all the criminals locked up due to Dent's act. With the help of the realized cat-woman and Det. Blake, he releases the police to action and fight the criminals. Batman now has the win over Bane in a fight, who finally gets killed by the cat-woman. 'The Bat' helps the batman to pull over the nuclear bomb to the distant seas and save Gotham finally.
The continuation on TDKR seems most likely after the reappearance of Bruce Wayne, united with Seline and Alfred and the inclusion of the Det. Blake as 'Robin'
Christopher Nolan brought in enough drama into the movie to make it a fitting end)may not be an end as such) to the trilogy, but few instances in the script put the TDKR a line behind the TDK.