subject: Critique Of The Dark Knight Rises [print this page] Christopher Nolan just released the conclusion of his dark and more realistic trilogy of his take on Batman. While the series is no slouch, the final chapter leaves some things to be desired, especially in the plot and dialogue departments. While it is a great film and series, as a movie just ok, and as the third film in the trilogy it only gets the job done. So read on for a critique of The Dark Knight Rises. Warning: there are spoilers ahead.
While the opening scene in the hijacked airplane is a spectacular over the top action scene, the dialogue and deliveries are groan worthy, ruining the action. Was it part of your plan to get caught? the officer drawls vacantly to Bane. And are they cops really so stupid as to just take a hooded prisoner aboard without checking who he is first? After all, they captured and stormed the plane anyway, why couldnt have Bane just rappeled in with the others? This is poor plotting at best.
Anne Hathaway does a great job at portraying Selina Kyle (AKA Catwoman) but her quest to clear up her name feels as weightless as her acrobatic movements. The carrot of a program that can wipe her out of every database in the world is just ludicrous to any thinking moviegoer. She could have just been stealing things because that is what she is good at. It would have made her turn at the end that much more dramatic.
And the wedge driven between Alfred and Bruce Wayne felt rushed and forced. Both actors did as good of a job as they could with the script but the strained relationship just was not given enough time to develop for it to have any weight.
Another abysmal plot point was having Bane happen upon the truth about Batman and Harvey Dent by finding it in Commissioner Gordons pocket is just ridiculous. Having it wash down the sewer and a henchmen just happen upon it would have been more believable. Another related plot point was that the bad guys spent all their time and effort to build explosive concrete into the city just to trap the police there. And just how did they get away with months of being in the sewers without anyone finding out? Even the street kids knew about the project, you are telling me not one snitch went to the police in all those months? And is there a more convoluted way to get rid of the police? And how does blowing up a stadium foster a movement of the people against the establishment, after all Bane, and not the police is the one blowing things up around them.
The movie was not all bad though, Joseph Gordon Levitt was spectacular as Robin, and it was a cool decision to have him become the replacement for Bruce Wayne as Batman at the end, though it was not much of a surprise. The fight scenes between Bane and Batman were visceral and engaging. More information on movies such as The Dark Knight Rises and actors such as Christian Bale are available on the internet.
