Amazingly done ending to the best superhero trilogy ever

Rating: 10/10 (22 July 2012)

I'm from the Netherlands and we Dutch people are quite down-to-earth. If we watch a comedy we nod approvingly if a joke is funny, if we're watching a drama we nod disapprovingly if something bad happens. In short, Dutch people aren't generally very enthusiastic. At the end of the Dark Knight Rises, however, there was applause. No kidding, actual applause. I had never seen this happen, ever. And it's not undeserved, because this is one amazing piece of cinema.
There might be some minor flaws in this film. Bane's voice sounded a bit odd at times, for instance. But then, no good movie is without mistakes. There's Pterodactyls in Citizen Kane, for god's sake! Look over the movies slight flaws and there's an amazing film underneath.
The story is compelling and much less "superhero" than the other two. Sure, you still have the typical comic-book characters. But the story's focus on the people behind those masks creates a much more realistic and emotionally compelling movie. And the movie achieves this without going too far away from the Batman's comic-book roots.
But there's another reason why this movie is such a great film. It complete's the trilogy. It rarely happens that movies based on comic-books contain an actual ending. This movie does, taking all the threads from the three movies and wrapping them up in a neat bundle.
In conclusion, it might be an unpopular opinion, but I find this to be the best Batman movie, ever.