![]() Grant Morrison’s Guide to Batman on the Big Screen Bale, up to every challenge in a tough role, gives a hypnotic, haunting performance. The final chapter in the Dark Knight saga allows Bale to move deeply into Bruce/Batman’s troubled soul. This new era of crimebusting is built on lies, which is hell on Batman’s alter ego, playboy Bruce Wayne, who’s been living like a hermit in luxury – all his bat toys banished. It was Dent who died going psycho as the evil Two- Face, but Commissioner Gordon (the reliably superb Gary Oldman) persuaded Batman to take the blame as an impetus for severe new crime laws in Gotham. ![]() The director and his coscreenwriter, brother Jonathan Nolan, pick up the story eight years after Batman ( Christian Bale) took the rap for DA Harvey Dent. For nearly three hours, Nolan juggles themes that took root in 2005’s Batman Begins and reached doomsday perfection in 2008’s The Dark Knightwith the late Heath Ledger’s masterful, Oscar- winning performance as the Joker. The Dark Knight Rises is the King Daddy of summer movie epics. But the sheer scope of Nolan’s vision – with emotion and spectacle thundering across the screen – is staggering. Want to bitch? Start with the reactionary politics and that franchisefeeder of an ending. Audiences will be arguing forever about director Christopher Nolan’s capper to his Batman trilogy.
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