It's the final movie in the Nolanverse of Batman. How does it hold up?
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My college puts on movies for a dollar every month. This month's movie was The Dark Knight Rises. Now I saw this back in theaters when it came out, but due to reasons of TMI, I had to leave during the big fight scene between Bane, Batman, and other characters at the end causing me to miss some valuable plot points. I was able to make it back to see how it ended, but it just wasn't complete. Now that I have seen it all the way through, time for a full review.
As you may or may not know, this movie takes place 7 years after the events in The Dark Knight. Gotham is clean for the most part, Bruce Wayne has become a shut in, and Batman is no where to be found. But before we learn that, we see Bane hijacking a plane in order to get a scientist who is an expert in weaponizing fusion. Bane then takes control of Gotham's sewers and severely hurts Commissioner Gordan. When Bruce finds out about this, he comes out of retirement to stop Bane. But in order to do this, he must work with the Cat Woman, whom we find to be a really morally grey character.
Each film we find Bruce fighting some personal issue that is personified as the villains. In Begins, it's fear; in Dark Knight, it's morals; in Rises, it's his own physical limitations. Bruce wane is becoming old. One of his knees is bad causing him to need a cane, and later a super prosthetic knee thing, and he just isn't in the shape he used to be. This compared to Bane's super strength and super ability to fight. He also has special training in fighting, which I won't spoil what. Speaking of Bane, his goal is to "return Gotham to the people, and fight the tyranny of the corrupt." But the biggest thing for me was that he sounds like a muffled Sean Connery. Basically Connery crossed with Darth Vader. Just thought I'd put that out there. Cat Woman is an interesting character. Her actions are fueled by self desires. Like Bane, she isn't to fond of the rich people, but her goal is to leave her life of crime with a clean slate. Go somewhere where no one knows who she is and it being impossible for people to know who she is. We don't really know if she's really all that bad or not.
Now to tell you what happens, without telling you "what happens." Unlike Scarecrow who just wanted to make everyone afraid and crazy, Joker who just wanted to watch the world burn and show that anyone could become corrupt, and Harvey Dent/2 Face, who proved Joker right, Bane has a much deeper back story. In order to understand his reasoning, and to make the big plot twist at the end, we need to know how he came to be. Unlike it Batman and Robin, shutter, this time around Bane has free will and is the big schemer, and his back story is what fuels his reason for wanting to take down Gotham. And that Plot twist, it's just super "didn't see that coming." Also during the fight, Batman says something almost exactly like what Bane said earlier in the movie.
Now this movie has been called "The Greatest Conservative movies of this decade," and I don't disagree. But to get into that, I'd need to do copious amounts of spoilers and that won't work for me here. If you want to further look into it, here's a link to an article. Lots of spoilers though. You've been warned.
So to wrap things up, this was a good end to a good trilogy. They really tied things up with the Batman character, while still leaving it open for a different super hero. Hint hint. Sure hope they use him since Nolanverse is a great version. Well this has been Pokematic signing off and bu-bye.
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