When we get them, they're exciting, engaging, and (in IMAX), visually breathtaking. Strong performances from Hardy and Hathaway keep things interesting and Caine has an excellent scene in which Alfred confronts Wayne, but for the most part it's not the acting that drives the film it's the action sequences. But after eight years in hiding, Batman is still a wanted fugitive and his confrontation with Bane could be the catalyst that results in the destruction of Gotham City. When a series of seemingly unrelated crimes involving cat burglar Selena Kyle (Anne Hathaway) draws Bruce Wayne out of seclusion, he encounters Gotham City police officer John Blake (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), who thinks that something fishy is going onsomething that requires the return of Batman. These fears aren't unfounded, as Bane (Tom Hardy), an excommunicated member of the League of Shadows who intends to destroy Gotham with the reactor, abducts a Russian nuclear scientist who is able to convert the reactor into a weapon. Wayne Industries is on the brink of bankruptcy, having invested heavily with Miranda Tate (Marion Cotillard) on a new form of fusion reactor which could provide the city with clean renewable energy, but Wayne mothballed the projectfearful that with minor adjustments the reactor could be turned into a nuclear device. Police Commissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman) has helped push the passage of the Dent Act, which rounded up most of the criminal elements in Gotham City, and Bruce Wayne has been reclusive with only his trusted butler Alfred (Michael Caine) to keep him safe. Eight years after the events in The Dark Knight, Batman (Christian Bale) has vanished, having taken the fall for Harvey Dent's murder.

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