De første anmeldelsene av "The Dark Knight Rises" fra utlandet har begynt å tikke inn, og det er ingen tvil om at kritikerne lar seg begeistre av Christopher Nolans Batman-finale: Det går i terningkast 5, 6 og 9/10 på skalaen.

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Gjennomgående i samtlige anmeldelser er savnet etter dybden Heath Ledgers "Joker" tilførte "The Dark Knight", men som kjent er det en umulighet å gjenskape denne. I siste del av Nolans trilogi har Gotham derimot fått to nye karakterer: Bane (Tom Hardy) og Selina Kyle (Anne Hathaway). Begge får skryt for sine tolkninger.

Christian Bale høster også store lovord for sin Bruce Wayne/ Batman. I finalen får vi se mer av mannen bak superheltkostymet, og det sies at Bale tilfører karakteren en hittil usett emosjonell dybde.

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Dette sier utenlandske anmeldere om "The Dark Knight Rises":

The director and his co-writer/younger sib Jonathan have cooked up their most ambitious scheme yet, bunging faith, idealism, social revolution (via Charles Dickens!) and a combustible crisis that could backbone an entire season of 24 into the blender. - totalfilm.com

And Christian Bale? Never more vulnerable, likeable or willing to get his gloves dirty, pushing to new emotional depths for his final Gotham go-around. - totalfilm.com

The film reasserts the primacy of its title character and the general excellence of Bale's performance, forcing Wayne to reckon once and for all with the alter ego he's fashioned for himself and Gotham in the name of justice. - Variety

This last installment of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy makes everything in the rival Marvel universe look thoroughly silly and childish. - Hollywood Reporter

Tom Hardy's Bane is a far more developed concept, a violent beast of a man with brains to match his physicality, certainly worthy of the Batman movie universe and a more formidable physical foe compared to the Joker or Scarecrow. - comingsoon.net

It’s also the most epic and lengthy one, and has the greatest inherent stakes and emotion. - ign.com

Bane more or less distills the status quo of America into a few depressingly succinct ideas, which form the basis of his plans: fuel his followers with a sense of fear, incite them to anger by suggesting betrayal, allow them the pretense of hope, and they will become believers. - indieWIRE

A fitting epitaph for the hero Gotham deserves. - Empire

And as our heroes swoop off into the sunset, we realise we’ve been witness to something truly impressive: a seven-year cinematic adventure which combined the epic and the personal in dizzying, inventive, sometimes perplexing, often enthralling, always imaginative ways.  - timeout.com

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