A decent balance of AWESOMENESS!!

Rating: 9/10 (23 July 2012)

Actually killing somebody and breaking somebody's spirit are different things. bane broke batman's spirit too, but he rose to the occasion, re-discovered what it was to be Batman again, didn't he? if say some psychopath kills some people, terrorizes a city, turns one or two of its leaders/role models - yes, the spirit of the people of that city might break. people might lose hope. but they don't die. period. hope can be reborn. broken spirits can be repaired. but if someone kills all the people in that city, poof! they are gone. ashes. dust. which presents a more real threat? i think the latter. see joker's attack on gotham was a psychological one while bane presented a more real threat. if i am held hostage in my city, i am thrown out of my home and then i have to live under the constant threat of martial law and a nuclear bomb exploding any second, i think my spirit would break. i understand your gripe with bane - he isn't The Joker. but that is the reason why the joker is the best batman villain, if not one of the most iconic villains in entire pop culture. if you walked into TDKR expecting bane to unleash the same psychological warfare on gotham as the joker did, then that was foolish because bane is a completely different animal. The character of Joker and Heath Ledger's performance elevated TDK to a level, which few movies can touch and such magic happens only once a while. TDKR might not be at the same level of TDK but it is a damn good movie. Christopher Nolan has finally given a comicbook trilogy which is on par with some of the most iconic trilogies like Star Wars, The Godfather, LOTR.