Monday, 23 July 2012

The Dark Knight Rises [IMAX]

 

It was never going to be as good as The Dark Knight, however it is the best possible end to what is now a phenomenal trilogy.


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4 comments:

  1. Joe24/07/2012, 08:44

    hmmm. Not convinced. Tom Hardy was wasted and the whole thing was dull, bleak and phony-pretentious. And Christian Bale's clearly just doing the Batman voice to wind everyone up now.

    Anne Hathaway made Catwoman almost bearable though. Now THAT'S how skinny I like 'em...

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  2. Ed24/07/2012, 13:17

    Sounds just like its precedessors.

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  3. Joe24/07/2012, 15:06

    I loved the second one, but I think that's because the heavy, dark (turgid?) style was the perfect counterpoint to the joker. Even the plot of that film coming off the rails worked perfectly for me. The plot of this one made even less sense incidentally.

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  4. James26/07/2012, 11:33

    Fantastic, although it could have done with an extra 25-30 minutes to allow some of the plethora of sub plots to breathe a little.

    Bale gives his best Wayne performance from broken to triumphant via arrogant and defeated. Hardy is a phenomenal physical threat, but I felt the mask design caused his voice to seem detached. Hathaway was a great Catwoman; sexy, dangerous, rode the line of good and bad nicely. Caine is all heart (he made Helen cry twice) and has truly convinced me after I thought he was a little miscast in Begins. Oldman, as usual, is excellent and understated. But the real stand out was Joseph Gordon-Levitt. I was completely with his journey and I felt a bit smug that I'd called his character before the movie.

    It had a better sense of time and the psychological journeys of the characters were more coherent that TDK (am I the only one that thinks Dent going so fuckin psycho overnight was a stretch?), but it wasn't quite as magnificent as TDK; mainly due to there being nothing quite as magnificent as Ledger.

    For me, this is what mainstream mass market cinema should be striving for. Complex, coherent characters, a plot that requires your attention and has surprises, big ideas that don't distract from the fun and top notch spectacle and thrills.

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