Christopher Nolan stated conclusively that this would be his last Batman film.īatman sequels (indeed, most superhero sequels) becomes circuses of competing super-villains. Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan, Emma Thomas and Christian Bale have made a massive effort to do so and almost get there but The Dark Knight Rises cannot help but fall in the other film’s shadow. The Dark Knight is an almost impossible pinnacle of achievement to have to follow up. The Dark Knight in particular became the single favourite superhero film of the 2000s in terms of fan response and gave Christopher Nolan a cult following. The Dark Knight Rises was the long anticipated third and final of Christopher Nolan’s trilogy of Batman films, which began with Batman Begins (2005) and continued with the massively acclaimed hit of The Dark Knight (2008). Back inside the city, chaos reigns as the public declare war on the police at Bane’s bidding. He activates the reactor’s core, placing the control in the hands of an unnamed ordinary citizen and announces a plan to return Gotham City to its people, blocking off all exits to the city. Bane then hatches his plan – he takes control of Wayne Industries in order to obtain its technological developments, in particular a fusion reactor that was built for a clean energy project but mothballed by Bruce because of its potential to be turned into a nuclear weapon. Bane defeats Batman, snapping his back across his knee, and banishes him to Ra’s’s prison, a pit in the desert from which he was the only person to ever escape.

However, she betrays him to Bane, a former member of Ra’s Al Ghul’s League of Shadows. Batman forms an uneasy alliance and attraction to Selina’s Catwoman. There Bane’s men use the stolen fingerprints to hack in and flush all of Wayne Industries’ money on the markets, ruining the company. Bruce puts on the Batsuit again as Bane conducts an armed break-in to the Gotham stock exchange. At the same time, the city is being plagued by a hulking, masked mercenary known as Bane who operates from a lair in the sewers. Afterwards, Bruce finds that her real mission was to steal a copy of his fingerprints and that she is Selina Kyle who has a lengthy record as a cat burglar. He confronts her but she gets away by jumping out the window.

During a society function held at Wayne Manor, a waitress manages to get in to the private wing where she steals Bruce’s mother’s necklace from his safe. Blaming himself for the murder of Harvey Dent, Bruce Wayne has disappeared from the public eye and lives in reclusion in a wing of Wayne Manor.

It is eight years since Gotham City has seen Batman.

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