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Entertainment > Movies > The Dark Knight Rises---a Movie Review
 

The Dark Knight Rises---a Movie Review


Where
is Robin when you need him? Or for that matter Spiderman?  Wait! Where
is Batman?? In this 2 hour and 25 minute movie we see way too much of
Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) not to forget Catwoman (Anne Hathaway) and
Bane, the villain (Tom Hardy), and  a young policeman (Joseph
Gordon-Levitt) plus the Commissioner (Gary Oldman), Batman/Bruce Wayne's
inventor Lucius (Morgan Freeman), a possible love interest in Miranda
Tate (Marion Cotillard) and various other characters but I thought this
was suppose to be a film about Batman, isn't it?

"The
Dark Knight Rises" is on its way to breaking records (if the shooting
today in Colorado doesn't keep people away from movie theatres) but it
is not half as interesting as Spiderman was, has a long, confusing plot
that goes in all directions and a not very interesting villain. Without
giving away any plot points two of them border on the ridiculous.

Michael
Caine, playing Wayne's butler/valet, disappears after being prominent
at the beginning with his hovering/worrying about Bruce being taken over
by Morgan Freeman with the latter not really offering anything
different in the part.

The
screenplay by Christopher Nolan, who also directed, and Jonathan Nolan,
goes into many and confusing directions. It can also bring up other
layers if you want to look at it politically with Bane (Bain?), the 1%,
the Occupy Wall street group and the destruction of Gotham city, which
certainly is New York here, bringing up scenes of 9/11, but don't waste
your time on those angles because your mind will be all over the place
until Batman, special effects,  stopping the world coming to an end
comes into play and off we go into comic book hero action.

Having
seen "The Amazing Spiderman" last week and "The Dark Knight Rises"
today I would recommend the former a lot more than the latter as it has
the better story, is shorter and though it also has an uninteresting
villain at least you can understand what he is saying.

posted on July 20, 2012 6:26 PM ()

Comments:

Thanks for the review. Very insightful. I have to admit that I was worried about how they were going to conclude the trilogy, and it sounds like that was for good reason. one of the troubles I have with some of these superhero tales in recent years is that we seem to have lost the ability to allow them to be tru heroes. They need to be human and full of faults rather than something superhuman to strive toward. I understand that it is a reflection of all the negativity in our modern daily lives. With that said I miss that innocent/naive ability to dream big and strive toward true goodness.
comment by trekbrarian on July 20, 2012 7:58 PM ()
I don't like to put spoilers in my reviews but 1) Batman in a possible 3some? One as Bruce another as Batman?? 2) Our hero getting beaten up not once but twice???
reply by greatmartin on July 20, 2012 8:36 PM ()

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