An epic conclusion of the trilogy

Rating: 9/10 (7 July 2013)

'The Dark Knight Rises' took time 8 years after 'The Dark Knight', Gotham City has been in a peace moment after Joker's terror that almost destroyed the citizen. Batman who is accused responsible for Harvey Dent's death become a fugitive and never show up again. This time, new villain called Bane who is believed Ra's Al Ghul's apprentice in League of Shadow, ready to blow up Gotham with his nuclear bomb. Also almost all police in Gotham is trapped in the tunnel which makes Bane and his army easily take over the city. In this chaos situation, Batman who has been beaten once by Bane and send into a prison, must recover and rise to defeat Bane and shut down the nuclear bomb.
'The Dark Knight Rises' opens with loud and massive scene then become slow at next 30 minutes. It shows a process of how Bruce Wayne tried to be back in action after has been retired for 8 years. The real tense felt in the last one hour of the movie, the spectacle increases more until the end. And the last scene emphasizes there will be no more Batman sequel from Nolan. Many new characters also don't interfere storyline of the movie, besides all of them take their role seriously especially Anne Hathaway and Tom Hardy. Anne Hathaway is suitable as Selina Kyle, a selfish, beautiful, elegant and smart thief. Tom Hardy with only his voice and movement, has been successful to bring a fearless villain and could be a memorable one. It's quite hard to compare between Bane and Joker, both of them has their own way to rule Gotham although Joker is more unpredictable and ruthless that makes him more match as Batman's main villain.
Overall 'The Dark Knight Rises' is satisfying as the closing of the trilogy and once again Christopher Nolan has put it in a perfect way to end this. I must admit, Nolan's Batman trilogy is one of the best superhero franchise ever made which would increase the standard of this genre. His Batman trilogy is adapted with reality happens in life, not just a CGI entertainment that destroy a lot of buildings when fighting against bad guy and doesn't care about people in that ruin building. I've seen 'The Dark Knight Rises' 4 times already and still amazed by it's neatness in every element includes editing, visual effect, cinematography, costume design and sound effect. It could be tough challenge for every director chosen to reboot it, because Nolan's Batman is a simply masterpiece which is hardly for everyone to at least level it.