The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Country: US/GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 164m
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tom Hardy, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Anne Hathaway, Matthew Modine, Morgan Freeman
Synopsis:
Having retired from public life for some years now since his successful martyrdom of Harvey Dent resulted in a period of relative lawlessness in Gotham City, Bruce Wayne, alias the Batman, determines to return to his caped crusading when a new threat of unprecedented magnitude emerges from his past. But it is a physically reduced superhero with dwindling allies who must now confront the monstrous Bane.
Review:
Nolan's deadly serious Batman trilogy draws to an inevitably momentous conclusion with this hulk of a movie, exploring further the dark psychology and throwing in the risky narrative gambit of a villain who is a tougher roustabout than our hero. But then insurmountable odds always were the mainstay of the comic strip genre. After a terrifying, and barely comprehensible, opener aboard a disintegrating plane (shades of Inception in all the tilting here) we move to Gotham and the Catwoman, unwitting instrument in the neutralisation of Wayne Industries. We are kept in suspense as to what it all means for some time, but when Bane makes his move the effect is impressive and the movie-making at this point is jaw-dropping in scale, but even so the makers retain their biggest coup for a climactic character turnaround you never see coming. The film follows the 'violence without blood' remit necessary for the PG-13 audience, which carries its own special ironies when you think about it, but ultimately it does make you wince and cheer at the right moments, helped along by Hans Zimmer's thunderous score.
Country: US/GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 164m
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tom Hardy, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Anne Hathaway, Matthew Modine, Morgan Freeman
Synopsis:
Having retired from public life for some years now since his successful martyrdom of Harvey Dent resulted in a period of relative lawlessness in Gotham City, Bruce Wayne, alias the Batman, determines to return to his caped crusading when a new threat of unprecedented magnitude emerges from his past. But it is a physically reduced superhero with dwindling allies who must now confront the monstrous Bane.
Review:
Nolan's deadly serious Batman trilogy draws to an inevitably momentous conclusion with this hulk of a movie, exploring further the dark psychology and throwing in the risky narrative gambit of a villain who is a tougher roustabout than our hero. But then insurmountable odds always were the mainstay of the comic strip genre. After a terrifying, and barely comprehensible, opener aboard a disintegrating plane (shades of Inception in all the tilting here) we move to Gotham and the Catwoman, unwitting instrument in the neutralisation of Wayne Industries. We are kept in suspense as to what it all means for some time, but when Bane makes his move the effect is impressive and the movie-making at this point is jaw-dropping in scale, but even so the makers retain their biggest coup for a climactic character turnaround you never see coming. The film follows the 'violence without blood' remit necessary for the PG-13 audience, which carries its own special ironies when you think about it, but ultimately it does make you wince and cheer at the right moments, helped along by Hans Zimmer's thunderous score.
Country: US/GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 164m
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tom Hardy, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Anne Hathaway, Matthew Modine, Morgan Freeman
Synopsis:
Having retired from public life for some years now since his successful martyrdom of Harvey Dent resulted in a period of relative lawlessness in Gotham City, Bruce Wayne, alias the Batman, determines to return to his caped crusading when a new threat of unprecedented magnitude emerges from his past. But it is a physically reduced superhero with dwindling allies who must now confront the monstrous Bane.
Review:
Nolan's deadly serious Batman trilogy draws to an inevitably momentous conclusion with this hulk of a movie, exploring further the dark psychology and throwing in the risky narrative gambit of a villain who is a tougher roustabout than our hero. But then insurmountable odds always were the mainstay of the comic strip genre. After a terrifying, and barely comprehensible, opener aboard a disintegrating plane (shades of Inception in all the tilting here) we move to Gotham and the Catwoman, unwitting instrument in the neutralisation of Wayne Industries. We are kept in suspense as to what it all means for some time, but when Bane makes his move the effect is impressive and the movie-making at this point is jaw-dropping in scale, but even so the makers retain their biggest coup for a climactic character turnaround you never see coming. The film follows the 'violence without blood' remit necessary for the PG-13 audience, which carries its own special ironies when you think about it, but ultimately it does make you wince and cheer at the right moments, helped along by Hans Zimmer's thunderous score.