In Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, Nolan explored both the tortured soul of a vigilante and the possibility of justice in a world with so many colliding values.īruce learned that revenge was selfish, that justice, as one character put it, was about harmony. Nolan's Batfilms come out of what fans regard as the third wave, the postmodern, grown-up era beginning with Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore's Watchmen. This may be a comic-book movie, but it's weighty stuff. Yet he's oddly taken by this incorrigible bad girl who thinks society leaves her no choice but stealing from the rich. I'm not reading into this: The sentiment is voiced by Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle, aka Catwoman, who preaches class warfare to Bruce after he catches her rifling his safe. Nolan means to draw parallels to our own society - wealthy people living high while beneath them, in the sewers, apocalyptic forces gather, embodied here by a masked muscleman called Bane, played by Tom Hardy.īatman's enemy in The Dark Knight Rises is the brutish Bane (Tom Hardy), who delivers a beating that sends Bruce Wayne back to the gym. With the scum now off the street, business flourishes while the gulf widens between rich and poor. He took the blame for the murder of district attorney-turned-mad-avenger Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight, to protect Dent's reputation.Īnd that rep is not just intact but the inspiration for the Dent Act, which the mayor of Gotham City boasts put thousands of bad guys in prison with little in the way of due process. It opens with Christian Bale's Bruce Wayne a recluse, hobbling around his mansion, in mourning for a lost love, his superhero persona dormant for eight years. Welcome to Christopher Nolan's third and allegedly final Batman picture, The Dark Knight Rises - that so-called rising taking hours, by the way. The canvas is epic, the themes are profound, the execution is. With: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Anne Hathaway, Juno Temple
Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, some sensuality and language
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