Dark Knight Rises gets 97% Rating on Rotten Tomatoes

Dark Knight Rises Review – Disappointing

It’s not every day that a movie earns a 97%* rating (* keeps fluctuating) on the world’s most second most popular movie review site.

Yes, the early reviews for The Dark Knight Rises are out on Rotten Tomatoes.

And they’re mostly gushing, overflowing with praise.

Unless a meteor strikes the planet between now and Friday, The Dark Knight Rises will likely be the biggest grosser of 2012.

Here are excerpts from a few reviews for The Dark Knight Rises:

* Wall Street Journal

It’s hardly news, but worth repeating, that the filmmaker and his production teammates do breathtaking work: they’re headed by the cinematographer Wally Pfister and the production designers Nathan Crowley and Kevin Kavanaugh. And it goes without saying that the staggering commercial success of the previous two films will be matched or exceeded by this one….”The Dark Knight Rises” is notable for many things—thrilling chases, supercool vehicles, majestic vistas, an epic scale that hasn’t been achieved since “The Lord of the Rings,” a redemptive climax that brings an end, more or less, to a complex saga. The most stunning thing about the film, though—and this is said not by way of praise, but with anxious wonderment—is how depressing and truly doomy most of it is.

* Rolling Stone

The sheer scope of Nolan’s vision – with emotion and spectacle thundering across the screen – is staggering. The Dark Knight Rises is the King Daddy of summer movie epics.

* Hollywood Reporter

Big-time Hollywood filmmaking at its most massively accomplished, this last installment of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy makes everything in the rival Marvel universe look thoroughly silly and childish. Entirely enveloping and at times unnerving in a relevant way one would never have imagined, as a cohesive whole this ranks as the best of Nolan’s trio, even if it lacks — how could it not? — an element as unique as Heath Ledger’s immortal turn in The Dark Knight. It’s a blockbuster by any standard.

* Daily Mirror UK

Bleak, black and brilliant.

Now for a critical review:

* Associated Press

“The Dark Knight Rises” is plot-heavy, obsessed with process, laden with expository dialogue and flashbacks that bog down the momentum and _ dare I say it? _ just flat-out boring at times….Nolan’s approach is so coldly cerebral that it’s a detriment to the film’s emotional core. It’s all doom and gloom and no heart. There is no reason to care about these characters, who function more as cogs in an elaborate, chaotic machine than as real people whose souls are at stake.

Christopher Nolan, Dark Knight Rises

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7 Responses to "Dark Knight Rises gets 97% Rating on RT"

rakeshbaba July 16, 2012 at 10:55 pm

which is the world’s most popular movie review site?

SearchIndia.com Responds:

Swami, Bisi Bele Bath thumba thindare ithara prashne keluthira!

Look at the URL in your browser bar. 😉
rakeshbaba July 17, 2012 at 2:27 am

got it,it was an honest mistake
Naveen July 17, 2012 at 11:51 am

Here are a couple of hillarious batman clips from the 60’s. These are more fun than the dark and gloomy Nolon series.

😀

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEtCW9SS0ls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bToozNqJuIg&feature=related

SearchIndia.com Responds:

Watched both. Not bad.
gandhiji July 17, 2012 at 4:26 pm

Dark Knight ~~Rises~~ Falls to 87%.
- KLX2012 July 18, 2012 at 2:08 am
  
  And leads to ugly backlash from fanboys- slander, death-threats, etc.- so much so that RT had to shut down comments and it made the news.
boopalanj July 6, 2013 at 1:25 pm

I just read this article on RT – nicely put forth by the editor in chief.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_dark_knight_rises/news/1925558/the_dark_knight_rises_–_this_is_why_we_cant_have_nice_things/

SearchIndia.com Responds:

You write: I just read this article on RT – nicely put forth by the editor in chief.

I’ve read the piece in your link and all I can say is – Small minds are impressed by the most mundane things!

In what f*cking way does the above piece expand the body of knowledge or benefit anyone to know that RT is going to embrace Facebook style comments, that RT will ban users for threats and hate speech, that critical reviews are fine blah blah blah. 🙁

Drivel, Drivel and More Drivel.

99.9% of commenters are scribbling garbage these days and to register MY protest I am banning all comments on the magnificent SI blog for eternity!
- boopalanj October 6, 2013 at 12:03 pm
  
  This one reply made some real damages to my reputation around 🙁
  
  SearchIndia.com Responds:
  
  Rumor has it that SI has stopped tippling! 😉

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