Absolutely fantastic but not as good as the dark knight

Rating: 9/10 (23 July 2012)

This film was one of the best in the last few years it had great story with a realistic dynamic for a comic book movie. A very strong cast with some great acting with Tom Hardy providing a sturdy presence in the role of Bane.
It is such a dark film, duh its called the dark knight rises, go figure, batman is at his lowest during the the first hour or so with Bane controlling Gotham, also with Bane smashing Batman into pieces during the first battle showed the calibre of villain Bane is, powerful.
Anne Hathaway did a lot better than I thought she would but I would have preferred if she wasn't in it all, she just didn't connect to the darkness of the film (devil wears Prada, princess diaries).
Joseph Gordon-Levitt was excellent as officer Blake, he really did seem like a hero in this, he was a likable character and the ending really put him in a good position.
However I can't help but compare this tdk and have to admit tdk is superior for many reasons. The fact that the Villain was immense- there was so much insanity in the joker he became less human, the fact that Batman is on his own (no selina kyle), a smart opening scene (bank robbery), generally tdk is the smarter movie.
Bane is a great villain but he was hyped up throughout the film and then BANG, he gets knocked out by blast from catwoman, he seemed invincible but then fell like a house of cards, disappointing, Bane's voice was also a problem, I understood about half of what he was saying but it just seemed that high volume made his voice garbled, sounding like it was coming straight out of my 15" subwoofer, not good especially since this is a dialogue and story driven movie, so that's why it doesn't get a 10 unfortunately, but still an amazing spectacle and who knows it might be better when watching it the second time.