The Dark Knight Rises (2012) Review | A Really Risky Finale 

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Batman: “A Hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat a around a young boy’s shoulders to let him know the world hasn’t ended.”

Hardy: "You think darkness is your ally? But you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it."

I actually loved the way Bane was played in this film. Very serious and respectful reference to one of my favorite villains of the Batman

Michael Caine is the true MVP of this movie. He gives a phenomenal performance in his final turn as Alfred.

Tom Hardy being both Bane and Venom is crazy. You could never tell they’re the same.

As much as I can definitely see where some people find this to be the most flawed of the trilogy, I still find it to be the most emotional film

I honestly think there was a reason Nolan decided for Batman's career to be so short before he retired and how messed up his body was. There was this somewhat scientific article that pretty much determined that realistically Batman could only function for a month before his body would breakdown due to Injuries, his sleep schedule, his intensive workout regiment, etc.

This is honestly my favorite out of all of the Nolan films. It was a return to the noire storytelling.

I actually love this flick.... I find it hilarious that it calls out the 1% and became super popular with the whole Gamestop Stock situation.....

The Dark Knight Rises is my second favourite Batman movie. I know it has a lot of flaws but the things I love about this movie far out way the negatives. And it sends off Cristian Bale's Batman in a really awesome and emotional ending !!!

This is actually my second favorite of the trilogy right behind The Dark Knight. Bane is such a badass in this movie, has so many memorable quotes and the visuals in this movie are phenomenal. I honestly loved the way they ended this epic trilogy as well and absolutely loved the daytime fight between Bane and Batman, the stark contrast of their dark outfits in broad daylight was a nice change of pace. As far as Bruce being physically run down after hia short stint as Batman, I'd say it's purely believable. Jumping through windows, landing hard on his feet after jumping a great distance, the number of times he's taken a punch or crashed in his Tumbler. Anybody would be messed up after that...

I actually love this movie and is my favorite of the trilogy Bane was so badasss and used well he was like the general of a terroist group and they give us a hint at the beginning that bane is second in command “tough for a hired gun “then bane starts talking but never corrects him

Hathaway: "You think all this can last? There's a storm coming, Mr. Wayne. You and your friends better batten down the hatches, because when it hits, you are all gonna wonder how you thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us!"

I wish there was a 4th movie after Dark Knight with someone like Penguin. Also I think Bale said he didn’t want to do a Batman & Robin movie so that sucks. Also I’ve read ppl say a real life Batman would kinda have the same time frame bc it just wares out the body

I love this movie! It is one of my favorites. But it would have be really cool to have the dark night rises be split up into 2 parts. Ending the first part with Gotham being taken over by Bane and Batman in the Pitt. But in between the first and second part would be a Robin movie. With the cop trying to fight back against the criminals of Gotham and becoming Robin in the end. Then in part 2 of the dark night rises, Batman would come back and Batman and Robin would fight together to defeat Bane. That would have been epic! It would have made the story not feel as rushed and all. But I still love the movie!

I think an Arkham City-esque approach woulda been really cool. Don’t kill off two-face last movie and have Two-face scarecrow and bane face off in a gang war in the isolated NYC. Idk I’m just riffing, anyway I personally like this movie but I’m aware of it’s issues. Love the Batman reviews Chris 🔥

The dark knight rises is a great film. I think people got too spoiled with the dark knight. I definitely put this one over batman begins. All 3 are great movies though.

Dude... the fight with Bane in the sewer is amazing. Probably the best fight in all the films, definitely feel the impact

Loved this film, a much better conclusion to a movie series than most of what we get today! Yes, it has plot holes, but so did it’s two predecessors, and I’ve always had great enjoyment with this film!

Lol I agree with you on how they handled Batman getting his back broken by Bane. I groaned when I first saw that in theaters because I was like, “No shit he got his ass kicked, he’s been out of commission for 8 years.” It gave Bane a huge advantage and took away from bane fighting Batman at his physical peak.

this was the first batmnan movie I saw in theaters I was 11 years old with my 54 year old dad who didnt really know anything about batman and the theater was 90 minutes away but when we got home he said he liked it so much hed drive back to see it again. Ill always remember that anythime I watch this movie.

I rank this is as my second favorite of the trilogy because even though it is definitely the most flawed of the three films, its highs are really high, IMO, just barely beating out Batman Begins overall for me.

I actually prefer The Dark Knight Rises is better than Batman Begins. Hot take Ik

This movie was great! Tom hardy as Bane was phenomenal. And this was the greatest closer of any trilogy in movie history. A banger of a movie. Just wish we got Joseph Gordon levitt as Robin

I like this one bc it’s realistic bc think about it. After all that fighting and jumping through windows for at least Ah yr. You don’t think you’ll be messed up permanently. The pain he showed was real and the ending was actually decent I ain’t gone lie. Especially the scene where Alfred sees Bruce is still alive to end it. Great way to end the series in my opinion

Really think nostalgia plays such a huge part in our lives bc I grew up with this trilogy and think all three are miles better than all the others but others can still hold Batman and Robin and Batman forever dear bc that’s what they grew up with

Actually the injuries that Bruce Wayne sustained while Batman is realistic. Studies have proved that if Batman was real, he would only be around for a few years because of the physical strain of being, well Batman.

Where are you getting your 2 year timeline? Does it say how long he was fighting crime in Batman Begins and the time between the end of that movie and the end of the 2nd movie? I don't know I'm genuinely asking. We should also include the time he spent traveling the world training, going to prison and the time he spent training with the league of shadows. Those are all experiences that could have contributed to the wounds and damage to his body.

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There should’ve been a part two once bane broke Batman’s back. Everything was just bum rushed after that moment.

Nolan: "I want to do a realistic Bane. Not so sure about giving Tom Hardy the Venom goop." Sony: "Hold my beer."

I really loved Dark Knight Rises! I think they failed to completely stick the landing but still better than darn near %90 of superhero flicks. Love the channel man!

I haven't seen the dark knight rises but I'll seen this movie and Tom Hardy as Bane is impressive and the cast is just amazing with the catwoman!👍🦇❤🌟😍

Sorry I had to stop the video and comment this. All that damage to his leg was from the fall at the end of the Dark Knight. Also he didn't find out Bruce was Batman because of a look he gave him. When Batman left, so too did Bruce. I'm more surprised everyone else didn't figure that was odd.

Good stuff been waiting for this!!!

Been hyped for this vid all day! I love it when you do these review videos! Keep up the great work bro!

I always thought that if Heath Ledger did not die, some aspects of the script were improved and the film was divided into 2 parts, we would have had a better conclusion, for example something like this: The Dark Knight Falls: In my version Bruce would never have retired as Batman but he would not have been seen as Bruce in the span of 8 years if we would see here how Bruce has become addicted to his alter ego as a way of coping with the deaths of Harvey and Rachel and this would give Alfred's idea of ​​abandoning him even more solidity. Here I also emphasize that the city would still have large amounts of crime so at one point Bane would arrive in Gotham and release many prisoners from Arkham and Blackgate except the Joker and we would see Batman facing criminals that he faced in the span of 8 years and investigated who is behind everything, he also clarified that Bane would have an ally that would help him which would be the Riddler who has worked as a serial killer and places his victims in deadly Saw-style traps designed to test both the survival instincts like the human intellect. All this would serve Bane as a way to keep Batman busy while he develops his plan being the enemy behind everything and finally the Riddler locates and tortures the former accountant of Wayne Enterprises, Coleman Reese, to tell him that Bruce Wayne is Batman to later kill him and deliver this information to Bane. We would also see the introduction of Selina and Blake, I would leave Catwoman more or less as she is in the movie and showing clashes between her and Batman and a small attraction between them, and with Blake I would have made him the child that Batman and Rachel saved in Batman Begins and that during all that time he had been secretly investigating who Batman is until he discovered that it is Bruce. With the information of Bruce's identity in his hands Bane would also begin to destroy Bruce's life, using the fingerprints provided by Catwoman, Bane attributes the Riddler's murders to Bruce, who is arrested by the police and later released on bail. As a result of Bruce's incarceration, the Wayne family legacy is tainted and Bruce loses his fortune, and Bruce takes refuge in the Batcave and tries to find a way to exonerate himself. It is at this point where Batman would have his first fight with Bane, which would end just like the original with Bane breaking his back and the fight would take place in the Batcave, after which he would steal much of his armory and Bruce would be imprisoned in the pit and the The first part would end with Bane sealing off the city, revealing the bomb and saying that a citizen has the detonator, and also killing half of the Gotham police while the other half would lock them up in Blackgate by having the Riddler perform his experiments on them. cops torturing them and telling the truth about Harvey causing Blake to distance himself from Gordon. On the other hand, Selina has freed Joker from Arkham in exchange for his help in killing Bane, which he agrees to help defeat Bane, especially after learning that Bane supposedly killed Batman, which partly depresses and frustrates him. Like the mobsters in The Dark Knight, Catwoman turns to the Joker out of fear and desperation. The Dark Knight Rises: Here we would see in a more natural way how Bruce is recovering from his wounds and trying to climb the well and seeing him conquer his physical and emotional pain. In Gotham with the passing of the months a war arises between Bane and the League of Shadows, the Joker and his henchmen, Gordon and the few remaining police officers and Blake who has decided to create a group made up of people like the one who still follow trusting Batman that they would be like the equivalent of the Sons of Batman in Nolan's universe. Both Gordon and Blake's team would try to find ways to stop the bomb and another to try and get the people out of town. At the end of the first act we would see Bruce finally coming out of the well like in the original movie. During the second act we would largely see Bruce trying to return to Gotham and seeking help from a woman named Cassandra who trained him to control his pain in Batman: Gotham Knight (an anime film set between the years of Batman Begins and The Dark Knight). ). Unlike before, Bruce doesn't hold back his grief, but instead embraces it: the death of his parents, Rachel, Harvey, etc. Later, Bruce reconciles with Alfred, who helps him return to Wayne Manor, which is located on the outskirts of Gotham. Using the caverns in the Batcave, which are revealed to be attached to Gotham's sewer network, Bruce attempts to enter the city only to encounter the Scarecrow, who poisons him with his fear toxin. Here we would see Bruce demonstrate that he had conquered his physical pain by escaping from the well on his own, he shows that he has conquered his emotional pain by defending himself against manifestations of his guilt, which take on the guises of his parents, Rachel and Harvey. Bruce would defeat the Scarecrow and come out of the sewers and meet Selina like in the original movie and she would tell Bruce where he can find Gordon, Blake and the others. With the help of Gordon and Blake, Batman incapacitates the Riddler and they free the police officers. Also during all that time we would have seen how the Joker and his men would be terrorizing people and the Joker would be planning a way to finish off Bane. That same night Batman turned on a spare Bat-signal that he had in case it was necessary, which both people and criminals would see surprised, especially Bane and the Joker, the latter of whom begins to laugh out loud, happy knowing that Batman had returned. Finally we would see the fight for the soul of Gotham between the League of Shadows, the Joker's men, the Police and the Sons of Batman. Batman, Gordon and Blake would lead the Police and the Sons of Batman in the fight against terrorists and criminals and also Catwoman arriving on the Batpod to join the fight also clarified that the good team would also have weapons provided by Fox to help and the Joker had positioned his thugs on the upper floors to have an aerial advantage and tell them through communicators that there is a change of plans and that they be the air support of the police all while he is also preparing for the war and this would develop being all chaos and here we would see the rematch against Bane which would be much more violent and brutal where in the end Batman would defeat him and with Bane without energy to continue Batman would ask him about the detonator and Bane would reveal that there is no detonator and that he has been using the idea of ​​a detonator to manipulate people's fears and dissuade them from trying to enter or leave the city and then reveals that he flooded the central reactor room and in That moment the Joker would appear and hit Batman in the head leaving him half unconscious and in the end the Joker would kill Bane by administering a toxin that he had created through one of the tubes of his mask, which would be like a kind of laughing gas making that Bane died with a big smile on his face. The Joker would escape to the truck that had the bomb and Gordon, Blake and Catwoman would help Batman and the 4 together try to stop the truck and the Joker, and we would have the same chase and the two trucks would crash and since there was not much time left Batman would use the Batwing to carry the bomb away from the city but not before saying goodbye to Gordon as in the original film and Selina kissing her and also saying goodbye to Blake thanking him for giving people hope in his absence. The joker gets out of his truck and hearing almost everything, he picks up one of his weapons and goes quickly to hold on to that chain, standing on top of the bomb, Gordon, Blake and Selina try to stop him but Joker shoots near them to stop them who is about to leave with Batman since for him if Batman leaves he would too and in the end the 2 would die in the explosion. The movie ends with Batman being hailed as a hero and legend, with Bruce and his family's name cleared as Bane and the Riddler's frauds are revealed, Gordon retiring, and here I think we could fit a Barbara Gordon cameo as the new replacement. of his father, Alfred being in charge of the Wayne mansion taking care of the orphans of the city like the original movie, Selina starting a new life thanks to the zero account that Bruce gave her, seeing how the Children of Batman would still continue to operate and protect to the people and here we would see how many criminals in the city have begun to use clown masks as a sign of respect for the Joker and seeing perhaps a cameo of Harley Quinn as a possible replacement for the Joker continuing with his wave of chaos and finally Alfred, Fox and Blake vowing to carry on the Batman legacy by having Blake replace Bruce as the new Batman.

Sorry 3c films, but I have to respectfully disagree. You said it yourself this is a ultra realistic take on Batman, if someone like this really existed in the real world. I can’t see someone being Batman for long in the real world so I think him only being Batman for about 2 years makes sense in the world and story that Christopher Nolan was trying to tell

13:20 Thank you for being someone who has brought this up. I can stand his mouth always being open, makes him look totally clueless.

I think there was an early script where Batman needs Jokers' help to stop Bane. Man, what could have been...

A lot of people don’t realize Bane is super intelligent. He is one of the bats only villains who discovered his identity all by himself

Honestly, I just like this movie for meme-worthy Bane scenes.

I imagine the reason why he is walking with a cane is because he broke his leg when he fell off from that building with Dent at the end of dark knight.

The Dark Knight Rises is my second favorite of the Nolan Trilogy. I know it has SO many flaws in the details but it makes up for it in substance and emotional weight. I’m a huge fan of The Dark Knight Returns too and I like how Bane’s appearance is kind of modeled after the mutant leader.

You didn’t mention the ice Batman symbol in the beginning like you did for the others!! That signature trademark concluded in this trilogy in the best way of the 3

I remember going to the midnight showing and I was disappointed towards the ending of the movie and how Robin isn’t named Dick Grayson and so many others reasons I only watch it when I’m in the mood to see the trilogy

Bane is the most quotable villain of all time

The opening scene was amazing

This movie is Just a Masterpiece, After one of the greatest sequel( the dark knight) This movie proved that christopher nolan is a genius!!

I really like Dark Knight Rises, but my biggest problem with it is definitely Bane being side-lined into the role of henchman in the final 10 minutes of the movie. It completely undermines an otherwise really cool and intimidating villain who delivers nothing less than Final Boss Battle energy the entire movie.

I picture Joseph Gordon Levit becoming Nightwing after the movie in Nolan universe. Also, damn, why did you have to point out his open mouth, now I can't unsee it!

I love this movie so much, I think tom Hardys bane is great and this was really the first time I ever seen a hero lose a fight in a movie so that really affected me when I first seen it and I think both of the batman and bane fights are amazing and they're two of my favorite batma fight scenes, I'm still tied on this and the dark knight rises on which is my favorite batman movie......and Anne Hathaway is definitely my favorite catwoman

Well..... Chris I get we're your coming from but Christopher was very obviously going for a realistic take on a batman universe so if any buff guy with a lot of training was to be batman he'd definitely take a lot of abuse to his body even if he was only batman for a year and a half so the insane amount of damage he has makes sense to me at least but overall nice review

“So that’s what that feels like” 😂🤣

idk man.. this movie is really good and the ending is perfect with batman telling Gordon who he is

Why does everyone hate on this movie? Also no one said Blake would be batman. He's inspired by batman, but he's not becoming the next batman or something

I do agree with some of issues in The Dark Knight Rises but I actually when I saw this movie for a while I didn’t know it I liked this one more or The Dark Knight. But after rewatching all the Batman movies I have to say they The Dark Knight, Batman 1989 and The Dark Knight Rises are my top 3 favorites…for now until The Batman releases

My ranking is Dark Knight, Dark Knight Rises, and Begins.

Great review, totally agree with you. I was even more annoyed with this movie after reading Knightfall. It's like Nolan didn't like Batman at all. Such a shame :(

This man said “a good little trilogy”😂

Is he gonna do “Batman V. Superman” next?

Liam Neeson pulled a force ghost

Bale: (after Catwoman disappears) "So that's what it feels like"

Love your videos Chris

I honestly place Spider-Man 3 above Dark Knight Rises. You actually see Spidey throughout the movie, it's more packed than dragged out and it's a good moral lesson about ego. Peter finally gets it all and squanders it. Humility.

I just realized how much this trilogy is close to my heart

For those of you who hate the ending with Talia al Ghul, I’ve got you. I hate that so much I have a separate account in my head that makes sense. When Talia escaped the cave Bane stayed down there as she climbed up. Bane then is the mastermind for all of the stuff: not Talia. Later when band is fighting Batman Talia stabs him to help bane. Bane then chooses to stay with Batman, not being told to by Talia.

I enjoy this one the most out of the Nolan trilogy! Absolutely love it every time I watch.

I actually saw this movie in theaters when it first came out. It did took me a few years to rewatch the movie and understand it better

I really enjoyed your videos on this series. There has been a segment of the fandom growing louder in their dismissal of TDK Trilogy, and I won’t deny being slightly annoyed by it, since this series single-handedly changed the CBM genre for the better (yes that includes the MCU). Anyone who doesn’t get that either wasn’t here for or doesn’t remember the schlock that came before. BUT, I appreciated your take on things. Your arguments make sense, and you focused on why the movies didn’t work for you, rather than trying to claim they are somehow mediocre. I say this as someone who has his own hot take on the series: I actually think TDKR is the best of the three. It may not have pleased every fanboy (especially those that wrote their own perfect version of the movie in their minds before it even came out) but it’s an improvement on TDK by having more emotion, better action, by returning the focus to Bruce Wayne, and really perfecting the pacing of an almost 3 hour action movie so much so that that last 45min just flies by. Sure there are “plot holes” (most are nitpicks imo) but the other movies have them too, people were just more easily wowed and less critical of them. This one also seems to have aged the best simply BECAUSE it hasn’t been copied as much as the other two, and because the social commentary in TDKR continues to remain relevant, perhaps now more than ever.

Batman begins is my favourite out this trilogy, I do like how they keep using scarecrow

2018 Eddie Brock:Holy shit! 2018 Venom:You look terrible! 2018 Eddie:Well,that and also the damn mask is awesome

This review video: "👏👏 Brilliant!"

At the end of the dark knight 2008 he took a hard fucking fall taking out Harvey dent.

Chris where’s the Batman Vs. Superman review ?! I personally don’t like that movie very much and I was really looking forward to seeing your thoughts on it :(

Talus’s death was so anticlimactic lmao

This movie deserves more love from people

I had always just assumed that Alfred seeing Bruce and Selina at the end was just a vision or all in Alfreds head or a (day)dream or whatever

Where is Batman v superman

I still remember when I went to see this in theaters when it first came out. Almost from the beginning, I could tell that something just felt wrong. And that sinking feeling only got worse and worse as the film went on. The convoluted plot, the lazy "what a twist!" writing (OMG, Alfred totally telegraphed his later sighting of Bruce, whodathunkit?!), the cartoonish McGuffin ticking bomb at the end, the completely unbelievable circumstances of Bane's prison (who piped in the LOCAL Gotham cable feed and installed the fucking TV? Villainlink Inc.?), Batman teleporting across hundreds if not thousands of miles in just a few minutes and somehow getting into the city after the bridges were already gone, the police force not growing any beards or starving while supposedly being trapped for weeks, then proceeding to not use firearms in the big battle after, the Talia garbage that strips Bane of all his menace and power, and frankly the issues go on and on. I cannot *believe* the number of people who still claim that this is a great film that holds up against its counterparts in the trilogy. They are either the most unobservant people imaginable, or they are doing special pleading for this one movie and forgiving all its sins because they *want* the Dark Knight trilogy to be perfect.

I love the dark knight trilogy, but the dark knight rises is my favorite movie. I love how they made this real and made it better

This is actually my personal least favorite Batman movie. I find it really boring and unnecessary long. To be honest I rather watch Batman and Robin over this movie.

My favourite of the trilogy, with the most rewatch value. At least twice a year for me, just enjoy everything about it. BB and DK are great, but something about this one just got me.

It was the cowl that forced his mouth breathing when they switched it from Batman Begins. It covers his damn nostrils lol 🤦‍♂️

It’s the Return of the Jedi of the Nolan Trilogy. It’s not beating the 2nd movie & it’s not perfect but it’ll take enough risks to define itself as a epic & proper conclusion to the end of the trilogy despite plot holes & inconsistencies. However, it should’ve been much longer & Talia’s Death was *lulz.*

Call me crazy but I actually consider this the most entertaining of the three movies. I just really love to watch this movie. Dark Knight is superior because Heath Ledger's legendary performance but from start to finish I just enjoy this movie a little bit more

Batman got his back broken, his heart broken, his body broken and his bank account broken and yet this is still my favourite in the dark knight trilogy. 😀😀😀

Are you doing a Batman verse superman

i like how the prison acted like a lazerus pit

Hey Chris happy Tuesday man Hey did you ever sing "This is awesome awesome awesome" In the bruce climbing out of the Pit montage. Me and my cousin's would sing that Everytime we watch The Dark Knight Rises .

CB's Wayne/-Bane ends up with Rachael/-Selina/-Talia on Earth &/in heaven. Brilliant ending man.

What a huge let down this third movie was from the other two, and left a big sour taste in the mouth. I agree with many of your points, Chris on why this movie didn’t work. I also didn’t like the fact that Bane was just a puppet and like you said a henchman at the end. The whole injured knees thing did nothing to the story and they could have removed those two scenes and you wouldn’t miss a thing. We get It, Bruce hasn’t been Batman for years and is mentally and physically not prepared to return. The whole cave thing was the low point of the movie for me and I cringe every time those scenes pop up, this movie is just a slow burn to go through and is not enjoyable at all. I would have made this movie all about Two-face and establish what has happened to him and how he transformed and terrorized Gotham and to show how he truly was a hero who lives long enough to be the villain line that they set up in the last movie, but oh well. Doing these realistic versions of the world of Batman hinders the filmmakers on doing a lot of things, you basically are required to throw out more than half of Batman’s rogue gallery out the window. The grounded approach that they decided to revisit for The Batman only means that I think they will use and rotate the same 4-6 villains they possibly can to keep it as real as possible.

Man.. I feel like 3C just didn’t get this trilogy. Surprising

Hardy: "So you can back to die with your saga?" Bale: "No, I came back to stop you"

Can somebody actually explain the plot twist for Bane?! It was so confusing for me. 🙃

imo They should’ve done Riddler instead of Bane

I can’t like this movie. Aside from Batman and robin this is my least favorite

The most flawed ????? yeaaaa ok. This a classic idc lol. SB Scene, ann hathaway was flawless, i like Batman in the cavs getting back 💪🏽, the girl twist was predictable but great movie overall.

Also I know Keaton fans ( and I'm a Keaton fan ) will go Nuts but Christian Bale is Absolutely the best Bruce and again IMO the best Batman.