Rising above the impossible

Rating: 10/10 (29 July 2012)

This review will be quite short. Batman was one of the icons of my childhood and probably my favourite superhero.
When I first watched the first Nolan Batman movie "Batman begins", I was feeling like "That's how you do a Batman movie!". All the Batman titles before it looked pretty shallow comparing to it, this was the first one with actual story and the cast was chosen not simply to attract people to buy tickets but to help communicate this story to the audience. So, "Batman begins" was definitely something that totally blew me away... When "The Dark Knight" emerged it totally blew away the audience because of... well you all know why - the movie was a milestone in cinema (at least for me). I really didn't see how it could be possible to create a Batman movie that would be better than those two and it felt like we had already seen it all... I mean... what possibly could Nolan add to it to make it better? After watching "Dark Knight Rises" yesterday, though, I felt like I saw a movie that was in a WHOLE different league than the previous two - in my scale of coolness it was 3 times cooler than the other two. So, yes, Christopher Nolan rose above the impossible boundary that he set himself and created probably the best movie I have ever watched or at least one for the Top 3 (and I have watched many...). Just go and see it for yourself.... It is literally epic!