After 4 years of waiting... Batman returns to end his legacy in the film "The Dark Knight Rises". Unfortunately I came in late by 15mins, but since I was able to see the long trailer of the movie with Bane and his men invading a plane, so I was able to get a gist of what happened with the parts I missed.
The movie starts 8yrs after Batman's disappearance from Gotham, 8yrs after his friend Harvey Dent died, Gotham finally has enjoyed 8yrs of peace under the Dent Act. And with the Batman, Bruce Wayne also decided to lay low and be on a recluse with which the fall of his business. A new villain, Bane, finds about Gordon's secret and decides to resurface and take on the stock market hostage, and with it Batman is forced to return to Gotham. He was able to stop Bane and his men but only to find out that his stock was his target and had it bankrupt forcing him to turnover his company. Suspecting that John Daggett, his business rival, was working with Bane. He turnovers his business instead to Miranda Tate.
Alfred leaves the mansion after telling Bruce that he always envisioned seeing Bruce in a restaurant with a lovely wife (this part really gave me the chills). As Batman is led by Selina Kyle to Bane's lair, he instead got beaten up by him and sent to the prison were Bane was able to escape, a prison that was always considered inescapable. While Bruce was trying to recover and escape, Bane takes over Gotham, cutting off all bridges, trapping all policemen underground, making all the prisoners escape, giving what the rich have to the poor, and basically creating chaos all around Gotham. All with the help of a Nuclear Bomb he had created as a warning to anyone who tries to leave Gotham or enter it without his permission.
After months of training and trying to escape, Bruce finally was able to manage so by accepting his weakness. He then asks for help from Selina, Gordon, Blake, and Lucius Fox to liberate Gotham. While battling Bane, he then finds out that Bane wasn't the child of his former master but Tate was. He eventually was able to stop Tate and was able to retrieve the bomb but found that they didn't have the capacity from stopping it to explode. He then was forced to fly the bomb and have it explode on the sea, and since the Bat didn't have autopilot with it he had to manually fly it to a safety zone and have it explode.
The film ends with all the people of Gotham knowing that Batman died for them, and with it they built him a statue as a reminder of the hero who saved the entire city. Alfred, Gordon and Blake had a funeral outside the Wayne manor was divided to pay for the debt and the rest to be given to Alfred, the manor itself was turned into an orphanage. Lucius finds after six months that Bruce programmed the autopilot on the aircraft. And Alfred finds Bruce and Selina in a restaurant in Italy, as Blake inherits the Bat cave.
The Dark Knight Rises is easily considered as the best of the trilogy, I enjoyed it from beginning to end without realizing that the film was almost 3hrs long. It even reached $745 million + in gross profit. Catch it while its still showing in your nearest theaters.
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