Dark Knight Rises: Film Review (No Spoilers)

Was it any good, should I watch it? Yes!

Will I need to have watched the previous two films to understand? Not entirely. But I would recommend that you do else you will be at a loss half of the film’s conversation.

For me it’s felt like a long wait for this installment in the Batman collection, and oh boy oh boy have things changed in Gotham, but it was a goodun’ let me tell you. Not perfect, no. Not my favourite (at least not currently) but it was a very good fix undoubtably for any masked man fan.

Knight Rises is a clever mix of the previous two films without feeling like a complete carry on. It had a new villain with a very well planned out meticulous plan that had ties with the previous films, it was these ties that allowed the plots twists, thus making it a great grand finale – should it remain so. The second half of the movie has better fluid action, the pace at the beginning I found to be a little catchy although this was understandably (most likely) intended. I was eagerly awaiting the plane scene as previewed in the trailer but I found it to be lacking something on the big screen, whether that was suffocating sound that I felt was absent or perhaps it was that the scene has, essentially, been spoiled by the trailer.

The characters I felt were all played extremely well although there was a particular moment, that I won’t mention so as to avoid plot spoilers, when I wanted a little more from Mr. Wayne but perhaps I’m greedy as that clearly wasn’t the way they felt his character would be portrayed after all this time.

The addition of a certain masked man in the high chair for the court scene, now that was clever, a great tie-in. Personally, the ending was a sweet little touch.

By Scarlet Prentice