By: Greg Payne
We're four days away from the release of The Dark Knight Rises, the final chapter in Christopher Nolan's incredibly thought-provoking and successful Batman franchise, and a slew of reviews have made their way online. Following the gargantuan success of 2008's The Dark Knight, it was difficult to see how Nolan and co. would top that as they rounded out their trilogy, but the reviews have been overwhelming positive so far.
Through 20 reviews, The Dark Knight Rises is sitting at a pristine 95% on Rotten Tomatoes (that figure should change 16,435 times by the end of today), with only one negative review so far (more on this in a minute).
Well-regarded critics like Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter came through with the following praise: "Big-time Hollywood filmmaking at its most massively accomplished, this last installment of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy makes everything in the rival Marvel universe look thoroughly silly and childish."
The reviews, in general, highlight the emotional resonance of the film as one of its true strengths. Nolan, unsurprisingly, appears to have crafted a film built upon the humanity of its characters and a true sense of struggle, despair, and, one would assume, triumph appears to be coming through to viewers.
As for the negative review, I'm paying absolutely zero attention to it. Marshall Fine (who? Exactly) went the laziest route possible, saying the action, at times, is so "massive and thunderously clunky that I might as well have been watching one of the Transformers movies." This is basically the exact same first negative review that surfaced when The Avengers debuted in May. We all know how crappy the Transformers film franchise has been, with mindless action they key to its lofty box office numbers, but now, when no one likes action sequences in other movies, they take the easy way out and throw up an absurdly weak comparison to Michael Bay's giant robot movies. Pay this review no mind, as all other evidence suggests we're in for one hell of a movie.
If you want more The Dark Knight Rises, here's a spoiler-free 13-minute behind-the-scenes featurette. It basically outlines the story and has some nice insight from the likes of Chris Nolan, all of the major stars, and a handful of other producers and brass.
The Dark Knight Rises lands in theaters this Friday, July 20, and I'm sure we'll be seeing massive box office receipts.
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