The Dark Knight Trilogy Movie Review From the Batman Begins to the Dark Knight Rises

The Dark Knight Trilogy Movie Review From the Batman Begins to the Dark Knight Rises

Yesterday, I got around to watching The Dark Knight Rises. I figured it was a good a time as any to rate The Dark Knight Trilogy. This movie was similar to the old batman movies and comics. However, it differs on a lot of major issues. For orderly purposes, I will begin with the Batman begins. The movie starts with Bruce Wayne's parents getting murdered. Pushing back a little, the movie shows you why Batman dresses like a bat. As a child, he fell down a well and got attacked by Bats. Since then he has been afraid of them.

After his family's murderer gets killed, Bruce Wayne goes on a soul searching mission. His lover girl's remonstrances struck a cord in him. Rachel Dowes made him realize that he did not understand the criminal mind. During his search to understand criminals, Bruce Wayne got recruited into a ninja organization. The so called the League of Shadows had been destroying civilizations throughout the ages. Gotham City was their next target. They taught Batman to master his fear of bats.

Once his initiation was finished, Batman destroyed the League of Shadows, except for the leader. Unlike them, he was not ought to destroy Gotham. He wanted to save them. For the rest of the movie, Batman has problems with the League of Shadows. They were a problem that never really went away. In this film, the featured bad guy was The Scarecrow.

Like the original Scarecrow, Dr. Jonathan Crane was know for his insanity gas and his scarecrow mask. Good guy wise, the character Lucius Fox had a greater emphasis. He was the intelligent mind running Batman's show. He designed for him most of his high tech equipment. In the first film, he made Batman's car and armor suit. In the last movie, he made Batman's fancy airplane, aka The Bat.

Now, onto The Dark Knight movie. This movie begins with the antics of the Joker. In this movie, the Joker acts like no ordinary thug. As a matter of fact, he was far more organized than the original Joker. Unlike the original, this Joker simply wants to see the world burn. He was not interested in money... or so he claimed. Although in the third part Bruce Wayne seemed to be in dire need for some Debt Consolidation as he was loosing his house and company due to his lack of regard.

The second bad guy paired up with the Joker is Two Faced. He showed up in the last part of the movie. It becomes pretty obvious who became Two Faced, when one of the character is burnt half way. It's also a real bummer Rachel Dawes' end. Frankly, I liked the Joker the best. It was funny how he said that madness was contagious.

Speaking of the Joker, I remembered that the Joker inspired James Holmes. For those that do not remember, Holmes was the Dark Knight killer. He struck in the middle of the Dark Knight Rises movie. Thinking about it, The Dark Knight Movies were not responsible for the kid's insanity. It was not the movies' fault that a crazy person chose them as his theme song. Like most of you may not know, all insane people have a theme. This is well noted on the Joker's character. He is the card in the deck that should not be there.

If he gets inside the deck, the Joker usually screws up the entire game. That is all I have to say on The Dark Knight movie. Now, onto the Dark Knight Rises. This movie features three bad guys: The Cat Woman, Bane and The Scarecrow. I found it interesting the absence of the Joker. If the Scarecrow (who was in Arkham) was out, it was natural to expect that the Joker would have been released as well. I remember that in the second film, Batman told Harvey that Scarecrow was from Arkham's asylum. Needless to say, it was implied he was returned there. Thus, it was also implied that Bane released prisoners not only from Jail, but from the Asylum.

Plus, if Bane wanted to destroy Gotham, obviously the perfect instrument for its destruction would have been the Joker, not the Scarecrow. I suppose the creator of this film did not think that far ahead. Then again, having both the Scarecrow and the Joker running amok seemed like too much for the Batman. I guess it's no use pondering on what might have been. Above, is a comic showing what a fan thought really occurred.

What I liked best about the movie was the mythical child of Ra's al Ghul. According to the movie, this child was the only one to escape that fancy Asian, prison. For most of the movie, we were led to believe that Bane was that mythical child. The kid's true identity was truly amassing.

Selina Kyle was also pretty interesting. Like in the comic, Bruce Wayne liked that cat burglar a lot. She was solely responsible for getting him out of his 8 year hermitage. I thought it was a bit awkward how she met him. She was acting as a maid to steal his fingerprints. When she brought him dinner, Bruce showed his presence by shooting her with his crossbow. For being Batman, Bruce Wayne was  not too subtle in this occasion. Considering their eccentric personalities, Batman and Cat Woman made the perfect couple.

Needless to say, this movie had a happy ending. However, Bruce Wayne had to suffer a lot to get his happy ending. In most of the movie, Batman  was getting a royal beating. I think that is everything worth mentioning. Overall, the Dark Knight Trilogy movies were about sacrifice. Batman had to give up a lot of things for the common good. In any case, the Dark Knight Trilogy deserves 5 stars rating.