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Tim Grierson Reviews 'The Dark Knight Rises'    • Share:  Tim
Grierson Reviews 'The Dark Knight Rises' Photo Source: Ron
Phillips/Warner Bros.  For a lot of Batman fans, "Batman Begins"
and "The Dark Knight" were dreams come true: sufficiently dark
and compelling takes on the Caped Crusader that made other
comic-book movies look childish and glib by comparison. Sadly,
the trilogy's finale, "The Dark Knight Rises," isn't quite as
terrific, undone a bit by some wobbly storytelling, but it's
still a class-act thriller. The film takes place eight years
after "The Dark Knight" -- Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) has hung
up his cowl for good, but the arrival of the terrorist Bane (Tom
Hardy) in Gotham City forces him out of retirement. Even at 164
minutes, "The Dark Knight Rises" struggles to resolve all the
lingering plot lines from the last film while introducing a
plethora of new characters -- including Anne Hathaway and Marion
Cotillard as two very d