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| starring=Christian Bale<br/>Tom Hardy<br/>Anne Hathaway<br/>Michael Caine<br/>Gary Oldman<br>[[Morgan Freeman]]<br>Joseph-Gordon Levitt<br>Marion Cotillard

| runtime=165 minutes

| gross=$1,066,927,456 (worldwide)<ref>http://movies.yahoo.com/news/dark-knight-rises-rallies-revive-box-office-64m-161257782.html</ref><ref>http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=batman3.htm</ref>

'''The Dark Knight Rises''' is a 2012 [[superhero]] film and a sequel to Christopher Nolan's previous films ''[[Batman Begins]]'' and ''[[The Dark Knight]]''. It is the third and final film of Nolan's current Batman film series and stars [[Christian Bale]], [[Michael Caine]], [[Gary Oldman]], [[Tom Hardy]], [[Anne Hathaway]], [[Morgan Freeman]], [[Joseph Gordon-Levitt]] and [[Marion Cotillard]]. The film was released on July 20, 2012. It is rated PG-13 for "intense sequences of action and violence, some sensuality and language". The film has currently grossed over $1 billion worldwide, making it the second top-grossing film of 2012 behind ''[[The Avengers (film, 2012)|The Avengers]]'', the second top-grossing film of [[The Dark Knight Trilogy]] as well as the 9th highest-grossing film worldwide of all time.

*[[Marion Cotillard]] as [[Miranda Tate]]/[[Talia al Ghul]]*[[Juno Temple]]*[[Liam Neeson]] as [[Ra's al Ghul]]*[[Cillian Murphy]] as the [[Scarecrow]]/[[Dr. Jonathan Crane]]

{{DEFAULTSORT: Dark Knight Rises, The}} ==2012 Aurora shooting=={{see also|James Eagan Holmes}}In the early morning on July 20, 2012, 15 minutes into a sold-out midnight showing of the film at the Century 16 theater in [[Aurora]], [[Colorado]], suspect [[James Eagan Holmes|James Holmes]] entered the theater and threw a gas bomb canister into the auditorium before opening fire on the crowd, killing 12 and injuring 58 others. Holmes was arrested by authorities in the theater parking lot shortly after the shooting, identifying himself to them as "[[Joker (comics)|The Joker]]" (a villain from the previous Batman film, ''[[The Dark Knight]]'').  As a result of the shooting, film distributor [[Warner Bros.]] issued a statement stating it was "deeply saddened" by the massacre and canceled the premiere of the film in [[Paris]], [[Mexico]] and [[Japan]],<ref>http://news-briefs.ew.com/2012/07/21/warner-bros-cancels-dark-knight-rises-premieres-mexico-and-japan/</ref> in addition to removing the trailer for the film ''Gangster Squad'' from screenings of ''The Dark Knight Rises'' and pushing the release of it back to early 2013. [[Christopher Nolan]], director of ''The Dark Knight'' Trilogy, commented on the shooting as "savage".<ref>https://www.facebook.com/ChristopherNolan.info</ref> [[Batman]] actor [[Christian Bale]] privately visited victims of the massacre in the week following the opening of the film on July 24, 2012. Security was stepped up in movie theaters nationwide over the opening weekend of ''The Dark Knight Rises'' in response to the shooting. 

{{spoiler}}''The Dark Knight Rises'' is considered to be one of the [[Essay:Greatest Conservative Movies|best conservative films ever]] due to it's its depiction of [[Occupy Wall Street]]-esque protesters as the villains <ref>https://www.wnd.com/2012/07/occupy-batman-storms-gotham-city/</ref> who, under the lead of terrorists Talia al Ghul and Bane, orchestrate a takeover of Gotham City and force capitalists from their homes before sentencing them to a grisly "exile" from the city. In addition, Batman's alter ego Bruce Wayne's company, Wayne Enterprises, is shown in the film to have a significant drop in stock after investing in an [[environmentalist]], progressive business endeavor to install a clean energy source reactor to power Gotham City, which is revealed to hold a nuclear bomb in it's its core deliberately created by the villain Talia al Ghul to destroy the city. Finally, Batman is shown in the finale as willing to sacrifice himself to save the people of Gotham from destruction by nuclear annihilation, despite the city having branded him as a villain for the murders caused by Two-Face in the previous film, ''The Dark Knight''. This is not unlike [[Jesus]] enduring death on the Cross to save us from our sins. However, renowned conservative commentator and [[RINO Backer]] [[Rush Limbaugh]] aptly pointed out that the movie, released just a few months before the [[2012 presidential election]] featured the villain ''Bane'', a character who first appeared in Batman comics in the early 1990s, and whose name resembles [[Bain Capital|''Bain'' Capital]], the former company of Republican candidate [[Mitt Romney]]. If this was intended as a not-so-subtle attack on the Republican party, it is consistent with Christopher Nolan's financial and verbal support for leftist politicians in both the United Kingdom and America. ==References==<references /> [[Category:Greatest Conservative Movies]]