MSN - Rating "4/5":

"The Dark Knight Rises," director/co-writer Christopher Nolan's final installment in his groundbreaking pop culture trilogy adapted from the "Batman" comic books, is good enough to make you forget your superhero movie fatigue, in the event that you're suffering from such a condition. And even putting genre considerations aside, this is a pretty well-sustained piece of epic moviemaking. I'm not foolhardy enough to compare Nolan to the David Lean of "The Bridge on the River Kwai" or the Francis Ford Coppola of "Apocalypse Now," but it's pretty clear that the cinematic canvas Nolan aspires to fill is pretty much that size. I don't wanna damn with faint praise by saying something like "he doesn't disgrace himself in trying to fulfill that ambition." It's honestly too soon to tell just how "The Dark Knight Rises" will fit into the epic movie canon. But it's a very, very good large-scale action/crime movie with a degree in high technology and a will to make you believe in costumed crime fighters.

As for what's not to love, or why this movie isn't getting a perfect rating? The movie crams in a little more superhero-movie-as-civics-class stuff than I subjectively needed, although I understand how it's kind of crucial to the larger moral thesis Nolan's trying to attach to his story. Call me parochial, but I'm not sure the world actually needs the Tolstoy of the superhero movie, if such a position is even tenable.

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The Wall Street Journal:

'Dark Knight': A Grim, Spectacularly Black Beauty "The Dark Knight Rises" is notable for many things—thrilling chases, supercool vehicles, majestic vistas, an epic scale that hasn't been achieved since "The Lord of the Rings," a redemptive climax that brings an end, more or less, to a complex saga. The most stunning thing about the film, though—and this is said not by way of praise, but with anxious wonderment—is how depressing and truly doomy most of it is. Batman, played by a marvelous actor with a singular gift for depicting pain, suffers mortally. Dark comic books have always been around, but with a difference; as pictures and words on paper, they've allowed readers to choose their own degree of involvement. "The Dark Knight Rises" allows no choice; it's immersive and[..]aultive to a degree that could only have been achieved by the conjunction of a quintessentially somber comic and a filmmaker with a complementary sensibility, marshaling the vast technical and financial resources of an entertainment conglomerate. During the Great Depression, moviegoers flocked to escapist films with glittering dancers, happy endings and upbeat songs like "Happy Days Are Here Again." For whatever this movie may say about today's world, it rises to a different occasion and dances to a different tune. Happy days are done and gone.

Well, I just learned two new words.

[pic] Perfect word (parochial) to add to the troll artillery.

Christy Lemire -[..]ociated Press - "2/4", calls it a "Epic Letdown":

This is the problem when you're an exceptional, visionary filmmaker. When you give people something extraordinary, they expect it every time. Anything short of that feels like a letdown.

I've never liked this Broad's milk toast[..] reviews... Whole things reads like a broad who's never been low or depressed... And she can't grasp with why it's so dark.

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Originally Posted by youknowmystelo Well, I just learned two new words. [pic] Perfect word (parochial) to add to the troll artillery.

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Originally Posted by Illstreet Christy Lemire -[..]ociated Press - "2/4", calls it a "Epic Letdown": I've never liked this Broad's milk toast[..] reviews... Whole things reads like a broad who's never been low or depressed... And she can't grasp with why it's so dark. [pic]

[pic] she don't know what's it like to be trapped in the dungeon.

LoveFilm - Rating "5/5":

If writer/producer/director Christopher Nolan felt the avalanche of anticipation heaped upon this third instalment of his take on the Caped Crusader, it’s only spurred him to greatness. With all the qualities of its predecessors, so much to revel in and so few flaws, The Dark Knight Rises is a crowning triumph. So it’s as much about the intimate and the personal as it is about the wow-factor of the action and spectacle, and with such fine players, Nolan can keep his script clipped and efficient. Which means an awful lot of story can be told in the two and half hour runtime. It would have an epic feel in and of itself, but as it rounds out this three-film Batman legend – smashing crime, thriller, fantasy, action genres (and more) together as it goes, TDKR is immersion into an absorbing, fascinating world. And surely bound for glory. Which is good not just for Nolan, Bale, et al (and Warner Bros’ swelling bank account), but for us and cinema in general, because it raises the bar of what’s possible. It raises the level of what we expect and demand, even from a film that on the surface looks like a summer blockbuster. The Dark Knight Rises is so much more than that, of course. It’s movie-making at its finest: supreme technical expertise in so many departments, storytelling of a masterful degree, and – in short – utterly satisfying.

Originally Posted by Illstreet Christy Lemire -[..]ociated Press - "2/4", calls it a "Epic Letdown": I've never liked this Broad's milk toast[..] reviews... Whole things reads like a broad who's never been low or depressed... And she can't grasp with why it's so dark. [pic]

The funny thing about her is that for the most part, I find that she's usually on the level and consistent. I actually like reading the majority of her reviews, and thinks she brings in an interesting perspective. BUT, this review... doesn't seem like a well-though-out opinion. Bane needs to be a "secksier" villain? So, she wants a terrorist to be "secksy"?

What the f*ck? Needless to say, I'm disappointed in her[..]essment of the film.

Originally Posted by DaOmega_1 The funny thing about her is that for the most part, I find that she's usually on the level and consistent. I actually like reading the majority of her reviews, and thinks she brings in an interesting perspective. BUT, this review... doesn't seem like a well-though-out opinion. Bane needs to be a "secksier" villain? So, she wants a terrorist to be "secksy"? What the f*ck? Needless to say, I'm disappointed in her[..]essment of the film.

No political points in her review either. Dismiss.

Originally Posted by DaOmega_1 The funny thing about her is that for the most part, I find that she's usually on the level and consistent. I actually like reading the majority of her reviews, and thinks she brings in an interesting perspective. BUT, this review... doesn't seem like a well-though-out opinion. Bane needs to be a "secksier" villain? So, she wants a terrorist to be "secksy"? What the f*ck? Needless to say, I'm disappointed in her[..]essment of the film.

By comparison, "The Dark Knight Rises" is plot-heavy, obsessed with process, laden with expository dialogue and flashbacks that bog down the momentum and — dare I say it? — just flat-out boring at times.

Go watch "The Avengers" again hoe... [pic]

Originally Posted by youknowmystelo No political points in her review either. Dismiss.

Yeah, hence "milk toast".

Review was extremely shallow.

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me after the movie lets out:

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Originally Posted by Rico23 me after the movie lets out:

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For those interested, they're doing a livestream of the Red Carpet premiere today...

Check it out...

Originally Posted by DaOmega_1 For those interested, they're doing a livestream of the Red Carpet premiere today... Check it out...

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3 rotten on RT

and its just monday [pic]


Why won't they let Nolan live?? [pic]

Originally Posted by Heisenberg 3 rotten on RT and its just monday [pic] Why won't they let Nolan live?? [pic]

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The Dark Knight Rises is an epic and lifts the comic book film, as the previous picture did to an art form. It is without question the year’s finest film thus far and could land in the Best Picture race. Frankly, Nolan shows everyone[..]ociated with The Avengers (2012), a good film, how things are done, by making another masterpiece that finishes his trilogy about the Dark Knight. Nolan has accomplished what George Lucas could not with Return of the Jedi (1983), making a third film that matches the previous two, that takes us further into the characters and the story... Bale has never explored the depths of the character Wayne/ Batman as he does within this film. He is simply superb. Can anyone ever question him as the best portrayer of the character again? This is a tortured man, beaten down by who he is, but what he has become, by what he feels guilty for. Bale is extraordinary in the part and about the voice…it works. Audiences will make this blockbuster a major success, and so they should. Nolan demonstrates what a real popcorn movie is, and has the guts to give it a darkness we expect from something like Apocalypse Now (1979) but not a Batman movie. He understood that the thing we kids loved as kids reading the comics, that we believed what we were reading WAS POSSIBLE, and then he did it on-screen. We believed, we still believe, and so does he. This one is a dark work of art.

FOUR STARS

[pic] how is that rotten dailymail review considered a professional review?