The Dark Knight Rises – A climax that was needed

The most anticipated movie of this decade doesn’t leave you disappointed and doesn’t leave you wanting for more.  It’s a top effort from Nolan and company creating a very fine cinematic piece and an end that the series needed.  

As movie starts we can feel the tension in the air, yes we have waited for this for so long and it started where it ended. The city has Gotham has moved on in 8 years, making Harvey Dent a hero and Batman as a villain. Bruce Wayne is in tatters, he has become old and weak barely standing on his feet, hasn’t been to public gatherings, official meetings in years. Rachael has left a big hole in his life. As he says there is nothing out there for him.

We have some notable new characters in the movie. The first one is Bane, well Tom Hardy has a great screen presence but the mask has definitely stolen his on screen charisma, and the voice modulation is also very shrill, sometimes to blank. Ahh.. yes we have a worthy enemy for Batman. “Too big for you”.

A young cop played by Levitt plays an important part as Gordon is given rest for most of the movie, but the show stealer is definitely Hathaway. She is smart as Mr. Wayne admits, she is fast and she is greedy. She becomes a perfect bright spot in a movie which sets in a dull city. Perfectly opposite to Batman.

The regulars have done their jobs perfectly. Freeman as Fox is witty as ever, Caine almost makes you cry for his beloved Master, and Oldman has a lot to do in the end as the cops are trapped in the sewers.

The action scenes are superb. Batman has been missing a lot from the movie so his entry is superb and enjoyable. The launch of “The Bat” that comes in Black is legendary. The tone is set for a perfect finale battle as Bane overpowers Gotham and Batman.  Capture him to the darkest prison of all somewhere in Jodhpur, India leaving him to see his city rot with terror. And we wait for him to come back its all drama in that hour of movie with Bane creating havoc, Gordon and Blake trying to gather their limited resources and city living on edge of a nuclear explosion that is inevitable.

And yes batman rises for one last time for one of the best climax of modern cinema, the one on one with Bane was always coming, but Nolan always have some cards unopened till the end. I will write no more, don’t look for spoiler reviews, just go and watch the movie. But as I mentioned it will leave user not wanting for more as it shuts down any possibility of batman returning to save Gotham, but Robin that’s another story.