The best trilogy of all time? Quite possibly… But definitely not the best of the three by far. Rises was amazing, but it just wasn’t good enough to get out of the shadow that The Dark Knight created. Tom Hardy is a great actor and I was all for him being Bane and breaking Batman, but the whole voice thing is still something I can’t believe Nolan thought was a good idea (at least he cut the terrible shot of the prisoners that was in the trailer). I didn’t see the original plane scene before MI4 (the bank scene was so much better), but compared to the first trailer, his voice was still hard to understand half the time, even in IMAX. The other half of the time when you could actually understand what he was saying, he just sounded goofy and the audio seemed weird and didn’t match other characters talking in scenes since you couldn’t see his mouth moving and they edited it. It probably wasn’t the best idea to completely leave any mention of The Joker out of the film and try to fill the massive void Ledger left with a giant incomprehensible villain, but like you said, maybe that was Nolan’s plan — make Bane sound even worse than Bale’s Batman voice to take the attention away from that now that Ledger isn’t around to steal the show.

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If it wasn’t for the epic ending that only Nolan could pull off I feel like it might have been about equal to Batman Begins. Anne Hathaway was great, not sure why there was so much hate with her original casting, glad she nailed the role, but her fighting along with Batman and Bane’s was a little weak. The Talia al Ghul twist could be seen coming from a mile away, especially since a lot of sites reported that Marion Cotillard would be playing the character like a year ago. But I only know who Talia is from playing the Arkham games, so people not familiar with the comics or games probably got a nice twist there. It was perfect how Nolan setup JGL to be Robin but then you realize Nolan is done with the Batman series so the setup was kind of bittersweet. Plus, it’s a crime that he became Robin and wasn’t used as either The Riddler or even The Joker. It’s probably best that they didn’t have him try to take over Ledger’s Joker role, but the two look identical and he would have been the one actor who could have pulled it off.

I’d agree 5/5, but it doesn’t rise above the greatest 5/5 ever, The Dark Knight.

Ledger did indeed play a great roll, but his death pushed it a bit farther. Bale, by far..has been an amazing Batman, aside from voice decisions a few times “made by Nolan” he owned the role, in all three movies. Im tired of him not getting credit. I go to Batman movies to see BATMAN. AN d he delivered everytime. Thank You Mr. Bale, I enjoyed every minute of you and your craft.