Nolan finishes trilogy in style

Rating: 9/10 (23 March 2016)

Christopher Nolan is one of the best directors around. He is top notch. He has so many great ideas in the new Batman Film. He translates everything that he has on his mind to the screen so effortlessly, with so much ease that I am impressed. Of course, always one of the strongest backbones of the Batman films directed by Nolan, is that the writing, the screen writing is state of the art. The idea of vengeance vs. justice in Batman Begins, the idea of chaos and fall from grace in The Dark Knight, the idea of falling and rising in The Dark Knight Rises, all of those topics are touched by Nolan. I am happy to tell you that I very much liked TDKR (The Dark Knight Rises). It has it all, it has a very strong villain in Bane, Tom Hardy, a solid actor, makes this hulk into more than muscle, Bane has a master plan and he seems to have control of the situation. Bane is a monster, but he has intelligence, this is different from The Joker in 2008, when the clown was chaotic and anarchistic, now Bane in 2012 has some similitudes in the ideas of chaos and anarchy, but Bane is so much precise and even very much heatless indeed. I must say that the first hour is mmm, a bit boring, but yes it is a 2 hour 37 minutes film and wow the last hour and half, WOW!! You know Anne Hathaway, a great actress, very good and beautiful. As the cat burglar, they never say Catwoman, wow she is femme fatale, she is smart, she is heartless, she is her own woman. She plays both sides, but what do you know, she has a conscience after all, she is a difficult woman and indeed she admires Batman's strength. And yes if you are a man and you like a pretty woman, Hathaway looks terrific, so sexy in the cat suit. I love the idea of Rising, I know everyone has fallen in their lives and if you haven't fell, you will fall eventually. But that is the message of this great film of Nolan, the message of Rising, of getting up. "Why do we fall, Bruce?" asked the father of Bruce when little Bruce falls in Batman Begins. "So that we can learn to pick ourselves up." And I am happy to tell you that Bruce Wayne does indeed pick himself up. But before rising, you must fall and I am telling you, the fall from grace of Batman in the middle of the film, against Bane is very difficult, very tough to watch, I was sad as a Batman fan to see my hero fall. But I was hoping for the end, to see him Rise. I also liked Levitt as the idealistic cop from Gotham Police that wants to help anyway he can. Gary Oldman also is solid as Gordon and Freeman as Fox is like always very good. Cotillard a very good actress, shows her charm. The fact of the matter is overt, the correlation between Batman Begins with TDKR is so great and strong that with flashbacks and with ideas from the League of Shadows, the ideas of revolution, a dark and false revolution that engulfs Gotham, they say Nolan used as inspiration "A Tale of Two Cities" a book by Dickens that describes the reign of terror that engulfed the French Revolution. Gotham is not only Paris in an idea of blood terror, but if you are an American you feel that the tragedy and fear that was created after 9/11, the attacks. Gotham is also New York. The film has action in it, good special effects and the film has a good climax. TDKR is a very good film, close to great, but indeed it falls short from the amazing spectacle that was 2008's "The Dark Knight." But the difference is very close, I love the trilogy of Batman. Amazing film, there is so much potency and magnificence, I love films that makes you think, think about life in general. And I give TDKR 4 and half stars, 90 percent, 9/10. Nolan, Thank you for this great trilogy, you are an amazing director, but you still got me with Memento with Guy Pearce as my favorite film that Nolan has made. Go watch this film and go see it again. I saw it and I want to see it again, good films are rare. TDKR is a great action show. And always when you fall, Rise.