The Dark Knight Rises

My sister strong dislikes the recent Batman film. I wonder if she is just trolling me; the intense vitriol in her words is more potent than usual.

For me, The Dark Knight Rises is the most 'Batman' of the Nolan canon, if that makes any sense. Batman Begins introduced us to Gotham City and its masked protector with a great mix of comic mythos and murky realism; it combined the 'otherworldly' feel of the comics (high technology, the mystical nature of the League of Shadows, a man in a crazy rubber suit) with the ever-pervasive class divide of our world. The Dark Knight had a great feeling of intensity and escalation, with the Joker's mania increasing with every scene. However, it felt to me more of a crime saga that also happened to feature a man in a crazy rubber suit. The Dark Knight Rises contains, in my mind, the best elements of its predecessors - the mythology and fantasy of Begins with the escalation and scale of TDK.

.......and a man in a crazy rubber suit : )

Tom Hardy's Bane from The Dark Knight Rises