The Dark Knight Rises

The Dark Knight Rises is a 2012 BritishAmerican superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan, who cowrote the screenplay with his brother Jonathan Nolan, and the story with David S. Goyer. Featuring the DC Comics character Batman, the film is the final installment in Nolans Batman film trilogy, and the sequel to Batman Begins 2005 and The Dark Knight 2008. Christian Bale reprises the lead role of Bruce WayneBatman, with a returning cast of allies Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth, Gary Oldman as James Gordon, and Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox. The film introduces Selina Kyle Anne Hathaway, a sly, morally ambiguous cat burglar, and Bane Tom Hardy, a revolutionary bent on destroying Gotham City who forces an older Bruce Wayne to come out of retirement and become Batman again.

The story takes place eight years after the events of the second film in the Christopher Nolan Batman film series. The Dent Act, dedicated to the late district attorney Harvey Dent, grants the Gotham City Police Department powers which nearly eradicate organized crime. Police Commissioner James Gordon Gary Oldman feels increasingly guilty for covering up Dents crimes. He writes a resignation speech confessing the truth but decides not to use it.Bruce Wayne Christian Bale has become a recluse, broken by the death of Rachel Dawes Maggie Gylenhaal. Batman, whom Bruce deems no longer necessary, has disappeared. Cat burglar Selina Kyle Anne Hathaway obtains Bruces fingerprints from his home and kidnaps congressman Byron Gilley Brett Cullen. She hands the fingerprints to Phillip Stryver Burn Gorman, an assistant to Bruces business rival John Daggett Ben Mendelsohn. In return, she asks him to have her criminal record erased. Stryver doublecrosses Selina, but she uses the Gilleys phone to alert the police to their location. Gordon and the police arrive to find the congressman, and then pursue Stryvers men into the sewers while Selina flees. ........

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