it would be pretty hard to top the dark knight... and this doesn't come close. a fitting end to the trilogy in terms of entertainment value and fan service but the whole thing is pretty hairbrained. in attempting to combine the best of 1 and 2 it falls short, but there are moments. I thought anne hathaway's catwoman and tom hardy's bane were both great renditions.
I also love nolan's total inability to not cast cillian murphy in any of his movies.
still slaps. the first hour is a little incoherent, but once the interrogation starts it's a masterpiece til the credits. nolan loves his characters to verbally reiterate his movies' themes, which is welcome connective tissue between ever-escalating and phenomenally choreographed action sequences. hamfisted maybe, but not unwelcome as a nod to
comic books.
more impressive than anything is that the most powerful moments involve very few characters; no mass casualty events or leveling of cities. from scene to scene, i…
I'm happy this one held up. the high point of nolan's sci-fi career by a mile (interstellar, while fun, barely stood up to a second watch; tenet is a non-starter).
completely outlandish yet just grounded enough to keep the narrative (mostly) tight. some of the dialogue and line deliveries are awful but basically everything else rocks especially the cast. thrill ride from start-to-finish. if nolan's legacy is "popcorn movies that make you think," then this might be his very best.
for all the charms of the tim burton batmans (and even batman forever), there's just no comparison. this movie blends batman's human powerlessness with the genre's typical, large scale, day-saving set pieces in a careful way.
despite how self-serious it is, it has no problem using that straight face to pay homage to the legendary camp of its predecessors. while different, it doesn't reject those movies, but rather refines and further develops their language, marrying them to a new century's…
