The Dark Knight Rises

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The Dark Knight Rises

PG-13

Released Jul 20, 2012

2h 45m

Action

Adventure

Mystery & Thriller

Fantasy

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It has been eight years since Batman (Christian Bale), in collusion with Commissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman), vanished into the night. Assuming responsibility for the death of Harvey Dent, Batman sacrificed everything for what he and Gordon hoped would be the greater good. However, the arrival of a cunning cat burglar (Anne Hathaway) and a merciless terrorist named Bane (Tom Hardy) force Batman out of exile and into a battle he may not be able to win.

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Critics Consensus

The Dark Knight Rises is an ambitious, thoughtful, and potent action film that concludes Christopher Nolan's franchise in spectacular fashion.

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J. Hoberman

ARTINFO.com

The Dark Knight Rises not only celebrates a caped Übermensch but is itself, as a commercial enterprise, something beyond good and evil.

Feb 25, 2019

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Candice Frederick

Reel Talk Online

The Dark Knight Rises is the taut and satisfying finale to a beastly franchise that not only proposed new interpretations of a beloved tale, but it also re-engineered what we imagine a superhero movie to be.

Rated: B+

Sep 8, 2017

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Jason Bailey

Flavorwire

Nolan somehow never loses control - this is an accomplished and tremendously confident filmmaker, both in the execution of his thrilling chases and action beats, and in his manipulation of the complicated, multi-faceted narrative.

Jun 21, 2016

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Joseph Tomastik

Loud and Clear Reviews

A strong, exceptional film that deserves to be looked at with similar awe and reverence as the other two entries in the Dark Knight trilogy.

Oct 5, 2024

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Martin Carr

CBR

Saved by some top-tier performances from Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt - The Dark Knight Rises suffers from over-indulgence elsewhere. A fragmented plot diminishes the impact of Nolan's DC swansong, and robs it of momentum.

Rated: 7/10

Sep 14, 2024

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Tania Hussain

The Hudsucker

[Nolan's] films are a pure and genuine model for what story and setting should be as well as, creating a human touch to the whole aspect of these legends we’ve read in comic books.

Jul 28, 2024

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Fandango Customer C

A good sendoff to the Nolan trilogy.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

12/31/24

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PayPal U

Im a Batman freak. Unfair of me to rate anything to do with it. I am just a bit biased.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

09/24/24

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Tony

This movie is a masterpiece, it shows how a broken man can rise up and still do whats right.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

05/02/24

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Virginia B

The movie I saw was The Dark Knight. There was some mixup between Fandango and Regal theaters. So my five stars is for The Dark Knight, which is what I saw.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/12/24

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Jonny W.

AMAZING and underrated film!!!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/01/23

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I really wanted to like this movie. It’s just everything in this movie I have seen before. This movie is new to me yet I feel like I watched it 100 times. The Dark Knight Rises is the conclusion of the Dark knight trilogy. I did not Christian Bales Batman. His voice is too human like which is just a personal preference tbh. I don’t like his action scenes. His Bruce Wayne is good tho. The best scenes are when it is Bruce not Batman which is odd because it’s 3 Batman movies and I feel like we only got 1. TDK. This movie is the definition of safe. You may ask well Sean what stuff in this movie have u seen before? To start Bruce Wayne decides he wants to hang up the cowl. Seen that before? Oh idk maybe Spider-Man 2? What about the fact that there is a big bad that has no motives at all and just fights to fight? (Bane) I remember seeing that in 40% of CBM these days but specifically Toad in X-Men 1. There are definitely good things about this movie but it is just all to familiar. The best thing is the stadium scene with Bane. Hold on a second. Scarecrow was never fully used, joker died and Bane just turns out to be a glorified henchman. The treatment of villains is ridiculous. The worst thing about this movie is the handling of the 3 hour runtime. Everything is stretched out so far. This feels nothing like a Nolan movie. It does put me at ease knowing he got to end his universe on his own terms.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/19/25

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Synopsis

It has been eight years since Batman (Christian Bale), in collusion with Commissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman), vanished into the night. Assuming responsibility for the death of Harvey Dent, Batman sacrificed everything for what he and Gordon hoped would be the greater good. However, the arrival of a cunning cat burglar (Anne Hathaway) and a merciless terrorist named Bane (Tom Hardy) force Batman out of exile and into a battle he may not be able to win.

Director: Christopher Nolan
Producer: Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven
Screenwriter: Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co: Syncopy
Rating: PG-13 (Intense Sequences of Violence|Intense Sequences of Action|Language|Some Sensuality)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery & Thriller, Fantasy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 20, 2012, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 7, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $2
Runtime: 2h 45m
Sound Mix: SDDS, Dolby Digital, Datasat

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