The Dark Knight Rises

The Dark Knight Rises (2012) is the 3rd movie in the Christian Bale Batman trilogy. We have enjoyed these films and are sorry the ride's over. We don't like the villain in this one. We think his mask makes it hard to understand him, and we didn't find him interesting.

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Salon.com calls it a "huge, gloomy, magnificent (and fascistic) spectacle". Slant Magazine gives it 3 out of 4 stars. Empire closes with this:

With spectacle in abundance and sexiness in (supporting) parts, this is superhero filmmaking on an unprecedented scale. Rises may lack the surprise of Begins or the anarchy of Knight, but it makes up for that in pure emotion. A fitting epitaph for the hero Gotham deserves.

Roger Ebert says, "This is a dark and heavy film; it tests the weight a superhero movie can bear. That Nolan is able to combine civil anarchy, mass destruction and a Batcycle with exercise-ball tires is remarkable." Rotten Tomatoes gives it a score of 87%.