Third films in a series don't have the best track record. Spider-Man 3 was a confused, over-blown mess, Terminator 3 was a pale imitation of what had gone before and even Return of the Jedi had bloody Ewoks. Given the quality of the previous two Batman films though, hopes were high that director Christopher Nolan and writer/brother Jonathan could buck this trend and turn in a worthy end to their Batman tale. Set eight years after the events of the end of The Dark Knight, Batman has retired following a significant drop in major crime, thanks to the inspiration the citizens of Gotham took from Harvey Dent's battle against crime. Crippled both emotionally and ...  Read the complete review

The Dark Knight Rises is the final part of director Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy and was co-written with his brother Jonathan Nolan and David S Goyer. Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) has retired the Batman and hasn't donned the mask and cape for eight years. He has been forced to do this to protect the image of the late district attorney Harvey Dent - who Batman was erroneously believed to have murdered. Dent was actually the insane maniac Two-Face but the enacted Dent Act has put hundreds of the most dangerous criminals in Gotham behind bars and cleaned up the usually crime infested city. So Dent is thought of as a great man and the Batman is a fugitive vigilante who  Read the complete review

One of the most highly anticipated films of the year, 'The Dark Knight Rises' is the ultimate conclusion to Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy. For the last six months, we have bared witness to trailer after trailer and a gazillion different posters and promo material. No doubt, this must be the most hyped movie of 2012 and it has finally arrived. Upon hearing it would be shown in IMAX, I was desperate to grab those tickets as I've never seen a film in IMAX before. Entering the cinema, I was extremely excited for the upcoming 164 minutes, over 60 of which were shot exclusively for IMAX, bringing that extra on-screen WOW. Eight years after the ...  Read the complete review

This film is set 8 years after its predecessor, The Dark Knight. Batman, aka Bruce Wayne, is now a recluse, and struggling to get his body back to physical health after his ferocious battle with The Joker. Gotham City is surviving well without him, at peace thanks to Batman taking the fall for Harvey Dent's murder, even though it's come at a high personal cost to Batman, who is now shunned by the city he strives to protect. However, Bruce feels that Batman needs to make a comeback when a mercenary known only as Bane appears in the city, threatening the inhabitants of Gotham and causing destruction all around him. But Batman finds himself struggling to better Bane, and ...  Read the complete review

Film only review This third entry in the Christopher Nolan vision of Batman is as far removed from the campy third film in the Warner Bros series during the 1990's as you can get. Where that film had reduced Tim Burton's moderately colourful Batman with dark undertones to a schyzophrenic rollercoaster of mayhem, Nolan has managed to retain a cohesively dark tone to his trilogy that gives the film a feeling of continuation that wasn't present in WB's original series. This film catches up with Bruce Wayne eight years after Batman fled the scene of Harvey Dent's death. Painted as a murderous villain to protect the Dent Act, Wayne is now holed up in ...  Read the complete review