Eight years after the Joker was defeated, Bruce Wayne has given up the Batman mantle whenever a masked terrorist known as Bane enters the fray and enacts a plan to destroy Gotham. Bruce is forced to return to his identity as the Dark Knight, although for the toughest threat he's faced thus far.

It had been a long time since I'd watched this final chapter in the Dark Knight Trilogy -- and it, much like its previous films, has so much greater of an impact on me now than it did when I was a kid. The performances are top-notch yet again -- Christian Bale and Michael Caine offer possibly their best outings as Bruce and Alfred yet, and so many of the newcomers do great in their jobs. The way that Bane was handled was also very good, differing from other adaptations where he was just the muscle meant to get in Batman's way. I mean, he still is, but he's much more than that. I do feel that the plot wasn't as subversive as The Dark Knight's, but that's to be expected when that movie was SO GOOD. There's still a great deal of intrigue and deception at play here, and it wraps this trilogy up in a nice bow that cements it as one of my favorite trilogies of all-time. Highly recommended.

Content Concerns: The usual violence of the previous films is also present here, up to par with The Dark Knight. There are also about 11 uses of milder profanity throughout.

(December 2023) ( )

2312 ( )

The best out of the three. ( )

A big crazy guy gets himself a nuclear bomb.

I can't think of a single moment in the entire movie that provoked a "This is awesome!" response. For a Batman movie, coming from me, that is pretty bad. Although, if I hadn't seen the first two movies, I probably would have thought this one was great. But it doesn't manage to do anything that Nolan hasn't already done much better. And it's a shining example of why comic book movies shouldn't try to imitate The Dark Knight. Comic book characters are simple and naturally campy. If you take them seriously, but don't have a brilliantly intelligent script that warrants being taken seriously, the result will be... not so good. If Christopher Nolan himself can only get it right 2/3 times, the Zack Snyders and Marc Webbs of the world are doomed to failure.

Concept: A
Story: C
Characters: C
Dialog: C
Pacing: C
Cinematography: B
Special effects/design: B
Acting: C
Music: C

Enjoyment: C plus

GPA: 2.4/4 ( )

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