Hollywood As Large As It Gets

Rating: 8/10 (20 September 2019)

Director Christopher Nolan and brother writer Jonathan Nolan work up to four years to dysect the DC graphic novel series "Knight Fall" to assemble the essentials of the ''Bane vs. Batman"; here portrayed by young and eager Hollywood actors Christian Bale and Tom Hardy respectively, who get denied the sciene-fiction overdrive, including secret ooze of superpowers and hyper gadgets into space, when director C. Nolan remains his rigid, but spectacular hyper-realism, course for in-camera live-action shots as he remains to his todate last movie ''Dunkirk".
Nevertheless two and a half hour plus running time are well spent, especially at IMAX theaters, which every spectator gives the 'whoas' at least in certain scenes of mega-confrontation in the subterrranean sewers of Gotham City, thanks to final collaborations with long-time friend and partner cinematography Wally Pfister. Which keeps "The Dark Knight Rises" above Hollywood summer blockbuster average is its direct connection to the Nolan's masterpiece, at age 37, "The Dark Knight", where he led late actor Heath Ledger (1980-2008) to unforgettable stardom in letting him run free in his interpretation of an unlimited anarchistic as iconic nemesis character.
Watching "The Dark Knight Rises" over and over again over the last seven years, despite the commited, revisiting character-spines, ensemble cast including Gary Oldman as Commissioner Gordon, Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth, Morgan Freeman as Wayne-incorporated Lucius Fox and then again new supporting actors Marion Cotillard, Anne Hathaway as Catwoman, who suffer under under sexed directions,, recalling Michelle Pfeiffer's performance in Tim Burton's "Batman Returns" of summer 1992.