The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
The Dark Knight Rises is a 2012 action movie directed by Christopher Nolan, with a running time of 2h 45m. It stars Christian Bale, Gary Oldman and Tom Hardy.
Gotham has enjoyed eight years of uneasy peace, and Bruce Wayne has hung up the cowl, a recluse rattling around Wayne Manor. Christopher Nolan closes his Batman trilogy on an operatic scale: a masked mercenary named Bane, all muscle and menace behind a breathing apparatus, marches an army out of the sewers while a cat burglar called Selina Kyle works her own angles. Christian Bale plays a broken hero dragged back into the fight for a city that turned on him. The tone is grave, the stakes citywide, the action built practically with real vehicles and crowds.
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What is The Dark Knight Rises about?
Gotham has enjoyed eight years of uneasy peace, and Bruce Wayne has hung up the cowl, a recluse rattling around Wayne Manor. Christopher Nolan closes his Batman trilogy on an operatic scale: a masked mercenary named Bane, all muscle and menace behind a breathing apparatus, marches an army out of the sewers while a cat burglar called Selina Kyle works her own angles. Christian Bale plays a broken hero dragged back into the fight for a city that turned on him. The tone is grave, the stakes citywide, the action built practically with real vehicles and crowds.
When was The Dark Knight Rises released?
The Dark Knight Rises was released on 17 July 2012.
How long is The Dark Knight Rises?
The Dark Knight Rises runs 2h 45m.
Who made The Dark Knight Rises?
The Dark Knight Rises was directed by Christopher Nolan.
Where can I watch The Dark Knight Rises?
The Dark Knight Rises is available on HBO (Via Hulu), HBO Max, MAX (Via Amazon Prime), YouTube TV, Amazon and AppleTV.
Where to watch The Dark Knight Rises
Stream: HBO (Via Hulu), HBO Max, MAX (Via Amazon Prime), YouTube TV
Rent: Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home, Spectrum On Demand
Buy: Fandango at Home
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Cast
- Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne
- Gary Oldman as Commissioner Gordon
- Tom Hardy as Bane
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Blake
- Anne Hathaway as Selina
- Marion Cotillard as Miranda
- Morgan Freeman as Fox
- Michael Caine as Alfred
- Matthew Modine as Foley
- Alon Aboutboul as Dr. Pavel
- Ben Mendelsohn as Daggett
- Burn Gorman as Stryver
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A few thoughts on The Dark Knight Rises
For more of a lone hero shouldering a doomed city, play The Last of Us, where survival costs everything, or Red Dead Redemption 2, an elegiac epic of loyalty and reckoning. My Hero Academia carries the same weight-of-the-mask idealism in comic form, and the tv thriller 24 matches Bane's ticking-clock terror with a hero racing a countdown across a besieged metropolis.
Batman on the big screen across every era
The Dark Knight Rises closes Christopher Nolan's grounded trilogy, and these gather the caped crusader across decades of film. From Nolan's grave Gotham to Tim Burton's gothic city, Matt Reeves' rain-soaked detective and animated origins, they chart how many ways one hero can brood over a broken city.
Grounded, grave crime thrillers with citywide stakes
Nolan builds The Dark Knight Rises on real vehicles, real crowds and a city under siege, and these match that heavy, practical register. Cops, killers and fighters move through worlds where violence has weight and one wrong turn spirals outward, spanning a hard prestige drama, a ticking-clock series and an outlaw's long ride.
Brutal hand-to-hand combat and physical stakes
Bane breaks Batman with his fists in The Dark Knight Rises, and these lean on close, bruising combat over gadgets. Swordfights, martial arts and grim melee carry the tension, in stylish revenge cinema, wuxia grace and games that make every swing land, keeping the danger up close and personal.