Perhaps a three-movie marathon is in order as the thrilling conclusion to Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy has arrived this week on DVD and Blu-ray.
This summer, Gotham City was rocked, not by Occupy Wall Street protests, but instead by Bane, a ruthless, masked revolutionary whose army took 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.
As an Oscar-contending capstone to the ambitious trilogy that kicked-off in 2005 with Batman Begins, Rises follows a broken and weary Wayne, grappling with the death of his love and his place as Gotham’s fallen protector. 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.
