The Dark Knight Rises (In theatres July 20)

This Friday, Gotham City gets rocked, not by Occupy Wall Street protests, but instead by Bane, a ruthless, masked revolutionary whose army takes the DC Comics megalopolis by surprise in The Dark Knight Rises. Inciting a violent uprising of criminals and the poor, including Catwoman, who engage Bruce Wayne and the city’s elite in a class war, Bane quickly puts Gotham under his boot.
The 99ers will love this one.
Of course, if the $1 billion-plus worldwide box office receipt for 2008’s The Dark Knight is any indication, most everyone will love this capstone to director Christopher Nolan’s ambitious trilogy that kicked-off in 2005 with Batman Begins. Rises is rumored to round out the story by including a connection to Begins’ villain—Liam Neeson’s R’as al Ghul—and leaping ahead 8 years after the Joker’s chaotic crime spree to a time of peace and prosperity for some and crippling poverty for others.
Bane forces the haves and have-nots to collide in A Tale of Two Cities-style throw-down that both Bruce Wayne and his alter ego will be hard-pressed to survive.
Christian Bale, Michael Caine and Gary Oldman return. Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway and Joseph Gordon-Levitt co-star. Rated PG-13. Watch the trailer below: