Staticblog reviews “The Dark Knight Rises”

DKR-37446r CHRISTIAN BALE as Batman in Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ action thriller “THE DARK KNIGHT RISES,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. TM and © DC Comics Photo by Ron Phillips

George Lang and I saw “The Dark Knight Rises” on Tuesday, and today he shares his take on Staticblog:

With “The Dark Knight Rises,” the final film in director Christopher Nolan’s meditative and brutal “Batman” trilogy, Nolan orchestrates an artistically brave, uncompromised conclusion. It does not top 2008′s “The Dark Knight,” but it sustains that film’s excellence, building tension throughout and ending the saga with equal measures of wrenching catharsis and cautious hope for Bruce Wayne’s beloved, beleaguered Gotham City.

I pretty well agree with George’s take on the film, which opens Friday and stars Christian Bale as Batman/Bruce Wayne.  Look for my article on the film’s inspirations, and on the comic-book origins of the Bane character, in Friday’s Weekend Look and here at Nerdage.

Check out George’s entire, well-written review at Staticblog.

- Matt Price