Another Great Batman Flick

Rating: 7/10 (3 October 2019)

Dark Knight Rises is great! Tom Hardy as Bane is a superb experience. There is a threat the first time you watch the movie, that maybe Batman could actually lose. You feel that this film might be the superheros downfall. You think that possibly the city will start to think for itself, and do away with superheros for good. The world may start to govern themselves, and be happier for it.
However, Batman does save the day in the end, and puts order back to the supposed chaos.
Bane is wonderful. I really enjoyed him as a villain, and I think he was a good contender to the Joker villain from the first film. The Riddler might have been a better person, but the Dark Knight Rises takes you out of the ordinary hero-saves-the-day mentality. This puts the entire city at peril, and you see them rising up. It's not Bane doing the criminality. It's the entire city, the poor and down trodden. They rise up against the powerful.
Still, these high thoughts do not make the movie any greater than 7 stars, possibly 8. Some great sequences, action, and some intensely dark situations.
7 Stars