First thoughts...................

Rating: 10/10 (12 August 2012)

Wooooosh.Finally saw the TDKR yesterday. The wait for this movie was unrelenting and i would've seen it earlier but due to the month of Ramazan, the film opened late in our part of the world.
Ummmmmm, how to describe it? The most emotional and engrossing movie of the year so far. The movie opens slowly but builds up to fitting finale. There are quite a few surprises here and there . The use of nuclear bomb as a plot device has been done countless times before. Batman's apparent death in taking the bomb out of the city in a flying machine (Angels and Demons....anyone? ) but where Nolan succeeds is in the seriousness of the situation and its potentially harrowing consequences. I truly believed the bomb would go off and the city would perish.
Amazing performances from all the case but two of the actors deserve special praise here. Tom Hardy and Michael Cane. Also, Catwoman was good but looked a little cheesy. Nevertheless, Anne Hathaway pulled it off.
The score?...Amazing as always. Cinematography?...Top Notch.
So it is better than TDK? Is it a cinematic masterpiece? Is it the best trilogy of ALL TIME ?
Only time will tell.