After several years District Attorney Harvey Dent's unseasonable death, Gotham is been somewhat successful in cleaning up its streets, but it's those who are in charge that have become crooked and the citizens are growing uneasy. There are just the poor and the rich, so clearly what we require is a revolution. As if on cue, a new bad person (villain) emerges, by the name of Banes by name, I would assume, because that is precisely what he ends up being to society. His charming proposition is to put an end to class inequality through tyranny and destruction. Things start spiraling out of control as normal law abiding citizens start taking what they think is truly theirs. The whole city of Gotham appears to be on the brink of self annihilation, so where is Batman when you need him?! Well, he is lying in a giant pit of a prison with a broken back, watching all of it happen prior to his eyes on the evening news it's the final piece to Bane's plan, letting Bruce Wayne suffer, both physically and mentally, while Bane and his minions consistently destroy everything.

Christian Bale's sometimes stony performance in previous movies is special in this concluding chapter, and he is joined by Joseph Gordon Levitt who plays the rookie cop, John Blake, with a childhood link with Batman, along with the talented Anne Hathaway who plays cat burglar Salina Kyle. Although she is never referred to as "Cat woman", except in an allusion by a newspaper headline, she does so much justice to the character and that bodysuit that you might never be able to imagine anyone else playing the part.

It is tempting to compare Bane's character to that of the late Heath Ledger's "Joker", and if you do, be prepared to be disappointed. There surely isn't the depth or charisma, but distinctly Bane is a force to be reckoned with, and kind of reminded me of my Russian hot yoga instructor when he was in a bad mood. The man is obviously pissed off about something.

The movie is dark and brutal. And yes, it is almost agonizingly painful listening to people hypothesize that this movie is clearly a doctrine of analogy of certain political party involved in this year's election. But let's speak about what is the most unsavory part of the movie and that is how you could take a looker like Tom Hardy and make him virtually unrecognizable and icky.

The Dark Knight Rises would doubtlessly go down in history as one of Christopher Nolan's greatest achievements, and would definitely please even the traditionalist fans who felt the Dark Knight didn't get the credit it was due during the 2008 awards season.