The Dark Knight Rises (2012) Review


The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

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The Dark Knight Rises is an ambitious, thoughtful, and potent action film that concludes Christopher Nolan's franchise in spectacular fashion, even if it doesn't quite meet the high standard set by its predecessor.
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It has been eight years since Batman vanished into the night, turning, in that instant, from hero to fugitive. Assuming the blame for the death of D.A. Harvey Dent, the Dark Knight sacrificed everything for what he and Commissioner Gordon both hoped was the greater good. For a time the lie worked, as criminal activity in Gotham City was crushed under the weight of the anti-crime Dent Act. But everything will change with the arrival of a cunning cat burglar with a mysterious agenda. Far more ... More
PG-13, 2 hr. 45 min.
 

Critic Reviews for The Dark Knight Rises

The story is dense, overlong, and studded with references that will make sense only to those intimate with Nolan's previous excursions into Batmanhood.
July 30, 2012Full Review Source: New Yorker | Comment
Anthony Lane
New Yorker
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There was an opportunity here for Nolan to show us another way, to (again) stretch the boundaries of what is possible in a superhero film. Instead, alas, the latter half of The Dark Knight Rises retreats toward conventionality.
July 20, 2012Full Review Source: The Atlantic | Comment
Christopher Orr
The Atlantic
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I'm not arguing that Rises should be Singin' in the Rain. But its Wagnerian ambitions are not matched by its material. It hasn't earned its darkness.
July 20, 2012Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor | Comment
Peter Rainer
Christian Science Monitor
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The biggest surprise may just be how satisfying Nolan has made his farewell to a Dark Knight trilogy that many fans will wish he'd extend to a 10-part series, at least.
July 19, 2012Full Review Source: NPR | Comments (8)
Bob Mondello
NPR
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Others will see it differently, but for me this is a disappointingly clunky and bombastic conclusion to a superior series -- Nolan's biggest and worst movie to date.
July 19, 2012Full Review Source: CNN.com | Comments (170)
Tom Charity
CNN.com
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The director and cowriter/brother Jonathan Nolan pay heed to Wayne's wounded emotional arc. And the film is a feat of painstakingly crafted closure.
July 19, 2012Full Review Source: Denver Post | Comment
Lisa Kennedy
Denver Post
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Christopher Nolan ends a near perfect trilogy of dark and intelligent Batman films with a near perfect third leg in a marvelous re-imagining of the Dark Knight...
July 31, 2012Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | Comment
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed
Perhaps the best way to summarize the movie is to borrow the final line from one of the comics that inspired it: The Dark Knight Rises is a good film. Good enough.
July 29, 2012Full Review Source: Television Without Pity | Comment
Ethan Alter
Television Without Pity
... Nolan thinks small in a big way... providing an imperfect yet satisfying conclusion, and that in itself is quite an accomplishment.
July 29, 2012Full Review Source: MovieCrypt.com | Comment
Kevin A. Ranson
MovieCrypt.com
Christopher Nolan's Batman saga comes to an end with this engrossing and absolutely spellbinding installment...
July 29, 2012Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews
The weakest of Nolan's three Batmans with offputting politics and a dull villain but its fascinatingly vertical construction and Catwoman save it.
July 28, 2012Full Review Source: Film Experience | Comment
Nathaniel Rogers
Film Experience
Rises a Satisfying Conclusion to Nolan's Trilogy.
July 28, 2012Full Review Source: Illinois Times | Comment
Charles Koplinski
Illinois Times
It gets away from the great Christopher Nolan for a time during the film's soft middle, but he brings the conclusion to his Batman trilogy home with a bang.
July 27, 2012Full Review Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer | Comment
Clint O'Connor
Cleveland Plain Dealer
All in all, the gifted (writer-director Christopher) Nolan's latest epic is typically well-constructed (despite a plot hole here and there) and beautiful to look at.
July 27, 2012Full Review Source: Movie Dearest | Comment
Fr. Chris Carpenter
Movie Dearest
Enjoying TDKR requires messiah-like trust in Nolan that he'll eventually reward us, as long as we don't get too hung up on all the plot holes and leftover genre tropes.
July 27, 2012Full Review Source: FilmDrunk | Comment
Vincent Mancini
FilmDrunk
A bit of a letdown, containing nothing close to the brilliance of the late Heath Ledger's performance in the previous film, but it doesn't glorify nihilism, chaos and anarchy like the previous film did because it's villains aren't charismatic.
July 27, 2012Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope | Comment
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope
The summer's most grandiose, grown-up, operatic superhero movie, one that makes others look, in comparison, like kids playing around in action-figure pajamas.
July 27, 2012Full Review Source: American Profile | Comment
Neil Pond
American Profile
A fantastic conclusion even if a bit bloated.
July 27, 2012Full Review Source: Oscar Guy | Comment
Wesley Lovell
Oscar Guy
Demonstra que um longa baseado em super-heróis pode ser adulto, investir no realismo e representar um passatempo escapista sem, com isso, desrespeitar a inteligência de seu público.
July 27, 2012Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena | Comment
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena
Nolan's final Batman film delivers grand excitement, grounded performances and the kind of conservative themes rarely embraced in blockbuster films.
July 26, 2012Full Review Source: Big Hollywood | Comment
Christian Toto
Big Hollywood
Complex and comprehensive, beautiful if bloated, is nonetheless superlative filmmaking and even though over 160 minutes manages to rivet the senses in every frame.
July 26, 2012Full Review Source: Spectrum (St. George, Utah) | Comment
Bruce Bennett
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
The Bane voice drove me crazy, but I still liked it.
July 25, 2012Full Review Source: Tucson Weekly | Comment
Bob Grimm
Tucson Weekly
In his last adventure under Christopher Nolan's guidance, the Dark Knight never quite rises to the occasion.
July 25, 2012Full Review Source: IFC.com | Comment
Rick Marshall
IFC.com
If Nolan has accomplished nothing else here, he has made one of the more human movies of this type.
July 25, 2012Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | Comment
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
A joyless, bitter epic without a hint of exhilaration.
July 24, 2012Full Review Source: Knight at the Movies | Comment
Richard Knight
Knight at the Movies
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A Fire Will RiseImmenseBatman Begins was a good movie, but nothing like The Dark Knight who was also a spectacular movie, but nothing like The Dark Knight Rises. Christopher Nolans work is the paradigm and example that blockbuster movies are way more than one liners and explosions, they are movies that restore failled ... more
November 26, 2010
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Pedro Holanda
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Dark Knight Rises follows Bruce Wayne 8 years after the events of the Dark Knight. A new villain arrives in Gotham under the name Bane who is building an empire under the sewers and setting up explosives around the city while Bruce Wayne is pondering about becoming Batman again to save the city.The Dark Knight Rises is ... more
April 14, 2012
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Michael Edwards
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