IL CAVALIERE OSCURO - IL RITORNO

HOME BACK	IL CAVALIERE OSCURO - IL RITORNO (2012)	EMM#: 1093 Added: 06/01/2013
<- previous movie	Uno spettacolo epico-mélo che assurge Gotham a sineddoche del mondo, tra corruzione e tanto umano orrore.	next movie ->

IL CAVALIERE OSCURO - IL RITORNO Movie

2012

(8,6 out of 10)
Azione (Crimine|Drammatico|Thriller)
2 h 45 min - 165 min
Directed by Christopher Nolan

Watch Trailer
Play Now

	Christian Bale
	Gary Oldman
	Tom Hardy
	Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Plot | Cast | Goofs | Synopsis

Otto anni dopo la morte di Harvey Dent, Gotham è una città apparentemente pulita, ad eccezione della coscienza del commissario Gordon. Bruce Wayne vive ritirato, incapace di trovare un senso dopo la scomparsa di Rachel e il pensionamento di Batman. Glielo offre Bane, mercenario reso mostruoso da una maschera antidolorifica, che prima riduce la Wayne Enterprises in bancarotta e poi le soffia il segretissimo reattore nucleare convertendo il nucleo, pensato per produrre energia pulita, in un inarrestabile ordigno atomico. Mentre Bruce è rinchiuso in una prigione impossibile, con la schiena spezzata, Bane instaura a Gotham City una tirannia del proletariato che è un vero e proprio regime del terrore e affida il detonatore della bomba nelle mani di un cittadino misterioso. Come metterla con la glorificazione delle gesta di un ultra miliardario spendaccione in tempi di Occupy Wall Street? I fratelli Nolan decidono di tematizzare il conflitto anziché evitarlo. Alzare la posta del terrore in gioco, dopo lo scenario del caos affrescato dall'insuperabile Joker di Ledger e quello del caso impersonato da Due Facce, non era impresa facile ma il terrorismo si offre, da un decennio a questa parte, su un piatto d'argento, soprattutto se lo scopo è scatenare una guerra dei (due) mondi, ovvero una spaventosa guerra civile. Mai come in questo caso, dunque, Gotham è esplicitamente assurta a sineddoche del mondo (quello nord-occidentale) ed è una megalomania che ben si adatta al capitolo finale di una delle saghe più rappresentative dei temi e dei modi del cinema hollywoodiano contemporaneo, per quanto d'autore. Non sono pochi gli "spiegoni" né gli episodi ridicolmente inverosimili ma, in mezzo al racconto di tanta articolata corruzione e tanto umano orrore, così verosimilmente presentati (non si sa più se per una deriva antropologica o mediatica), le imperfezioni riportano alle esagerazioni da fumetto e quasi scaldano il cuore. Proprio come gli echi della tana delle tigri nel poliziotto di Joseph Gordon Levitt o quelli della casa-scuola di Xavier. Tra il secondo e il terzo capitolo non c'è apparentemente soluzione di continuità, ma a ben guardare la formula non è quella del seguito quanto piuttosto quella della ripetizione, che garantirà il gradimento dell'ultimo tomo a chi aveva già (giustamente) apprezzato il secondo, ma allo stesso tempo porta a riapprezzare il primo, che acquisisce in prospettiva il valore aggiunto di una maggior libertà e inventiva. Un piano ben congegnato, non c'è che dire, che nulla toglie, in fondo, allo spettacolo epico-mélo del film, ma può anche suscitare una legittima sensazione di appesantimento. Soccorrerà prontamente Alfred, con un Fernet Branca.

<br>Audio/visual unsynchronised<br>_________<br>When Bruce gets up to leave from his meeting with Fox in Fox's office, Bruce says 'No' before his lips move.<br><br>--------<br>When they take over the stock exchange, the bad guys enter the place shooting. It is noticeable that their machine guns are not shooting and yet we hear the noise and we see the ricochet of the bullets against the monitors in the ceiling.<br><br>--------<br>When the prisoners in the pit shout 'rise', their lips don't move synchronised to the shout.<br><br>--------<br>When on the plane the CIA Op, attempting to get information out of Bane's men, fires a handgun near the head of one of the men; however, the slide on the automatic does not move despite the sound of the gun firing, nor is a spent shell seen ejecting from the gun.<br><br>--------<br>When Selina Kyle leaves the party after stealing Bruce Wayne's car, you can see her driving with a smile, and the car's gears shift. She is not seen to change gear with her right hand, but that car, the Lamborghini, is not automatic.<br><br>--------<br><br><br>Character error<br>_________<br>When Bruce Wayne is at the ball with Selina Kyle, he corrects her pronunciation of Ibiza to "Eye-beeth-a". Although it's pronounced that way by many English speakers, strictly it's pronounced "Ee-beeth-a".<br><br>--------<br>Bruce consistently talks with his Batman voice when in costume, even when there is seemingly nobody there to hear it, yet when he visits Gordon in hospital he uses his natural voice. He may not be in costume, but he is clearly trying to protect his identity.<br><br>--------<br><br><br>Continuity<br>_________<br>As Bruce Wayne is meeting with Fox at his desk, his hand alternates between the top and the staff of his cane.<br><br>--------<br>The river alternates from being frozen to liquid and back to frozen during scene transitions.<br><br>--------<br>During the scenes at Wayne Manor (which was filmed at Wollaton Hall in Nottingham, UK) we see that the building is made of limestone. Yet during several scenes in the interior of the building, red bricks can be seen outside the windows, showing that the interior scenes were obviously shot at a different location or in a studio.<br><br>--------<br>When Bane's men steal the CIA jet, the fuselage is clearly much smaller when seen from outside than interior shots suggest.<br><br>--------<br>During the stadium scene, crowd appears full when filmed from the field or the stands, but entire empty sections are seen in the aerial shots.<br><br>--------<br>During the final street chase, the characters pass by the same Jos. A. Bank clothing store no less than three times.<br><br>--------<br>In the stock market scene, Bane's henchman that has the tablet that is downloading information is seen putting it in his bag. In the next shot he can be seen doing this again even though the tablet was already put in the bag.<br><br>--------<br>During Bruce's meeting with Fox in Fox's office before being introduced to the Bat, the book on the chair next to Bruce changes position between shots.<br><br>--------<br>When Bane blows a hole into the reactor bunker multiple pieces of debris are bouncing off the henchman.<br><br>--------<br>Just after Bruce Wayne loses his wealth, Blake is visiting him at home. At this point he has short sidebars. In the next shots his sidebars are long again.<br><br>--------<br>After Bane and his men attack the stock exchange, vehicle crash barriers are deployed on the streets. The one we see deploying has its open side towards the stock exchange. But when Bane and his men leave on their motorcycles, the open sides of the angled crash barriers are pointed away from the exchange allowing Bane to use them as ramps.<br><br>--------<br>When Bane's team blow the tail off the CIA plane there is a solid sheet of hardboard across the opening - from inside the plane it is completely open to the sky.<br><br>--------<br>As Blake runs into the hospital, he is seen to have a long shotgun with a wooden stock and a silver barrel. However, when he inside, he is seen to have a short black shotgun.<br><br>--------<br>Behind the police cars is written GPD which is short for Gotham Police Department but behind officers vests is written GCPD which is short for Gotham City Police department.<br><br>--------<br>When Catwoman shoots the cars blocking the tunnel, she beforehand puts on her glasses. In the next shot, she doesn't have her glasses on, just the mask.<br><br>--------<br>After James Gordon is injured after meeting Bane the first time, John Blake visits Bruce Wayne and tells him that James Gordon was babbling about an underground army and a masked man called Bane. Bane never reveals his name during James Gordon's visit in the sewers.<br><br>--------<br>The stock market exchange scene takes place during daylight. They established less than 10 minutes were needed to complete the exchange fiasco. Yet, when it's completed, its already night time.<br><br>--------<br>During the chase after the trade heist, Bane separates from his henchman and passes Batman on his left side; Batman turns to see him to his right side.<br><br>--------<br>In the opening plane sequence, the main CIA operative fires a gun right by one of the prisoners' head out the plane door. His gun does not recoil from the shot, but a gun shot is heard. Later, we see him recock the hammer, an action that would have been unnecessary if the gun had actually been fired.<br><br>--------<br>During the chase following the stock market robbery, the television headline alternates between "RETURN OF THE BATMAN?" and "THE RETURN OF THE BATMAN?" (with the "the" appearing and disappearing between different shots of televisions.)<br><br>--------<br>When the truck that carries the bomb is forced to crash the railing and fall down to the road below, we see no light pole. But in the next scene, we see a light pole knocked over by the truck as it falls.<br><br>--------<br>While Bruce Wayne receives ride from Police officer, smudge marks on the passenger window changes between cuts. One cut shows a full hand print.<br><br>--------<br>When Bruce is speaking to Alfred while sitting at a computer in the cave after he returns from rescuing Selina Kyle, his hair is lying unkempt over his left eye. However, when the camera moves to show Alfred and returns almost immediately to Bruce, his hair is neatly slicked back over his eyes.<br><br>--------<br>In the Batcave Bruce is looking for his thief Selina Kyle. In the fist mugshot she is little over 6'6 but her height in the report says she is 5'7 and in the next photo she is 7'2.<br><br>--------<br><br><br>Crew or equipment visible<br>_________<br>Chalk markings "S/T" could be seen in a shot of the police-thug battle in Wall Street. They were believed to be the markings for the police actors to know where to standby before film rolled.<br><br>--------<br>Following the scene where Bane's sniper goes into the sewer and Commissioner Gordon gives chase, there is an explosion. The blast comes up through the manhole and the cop (on the left) clearly has flame retardant jelly covering his face.<br><br>--------<br>When all the Gotham cops and Bane's gang are ready to start fighting (on Wall Street), a crew member appears on the left of the screen when the camera shows Bane's gang. He is there for a brief moment but you can see him and he has a radio around his neck.<br><br>--------<br>Camera reflected in glass doors outside stock exchange during the fight between cops and Bane's henchmen.<br><br>--------<br>As the shot pans over the hidden "Bat" near the bottom of the screen can be seen pieces of lighting equipment.<br><br>--------<br><br><br>Errors in geography<br>_________<br>During the Stock market battle, the camera pans back and shows a banner hanging with NYC on it.<br><br>--------<br>At one point, Wall St Subway station is clearly visible in Gotham.<br><br>--------<br>When Batman and Selina are on the roof, Los Angeles landmarks are visible including the U.S. Bank Tower and One Wilshire.<br><br>--------<br>When the Gotham police force takes on Bane's recruited prisoners, a banner clearly marking "NYC" is visible in the background.<br><br>--------<br><br><br>Factual errors<br>_________<br>When Bruce Wayne was checking his computer in the bat cave for the first time, one of the articles about Selina Kyle spelled the word "Heist" wrong. It said "Hiest" instead.<br><br>--------<br>When the bad guys are taking over Gotham, there are a number of bridges blown up. Some are suspension bridges that eventually have a small section of the center of the span blown away. A simple understanding of engineering would prove that stability is absolutely dependent upon the tension of the suspending ropes that stretch over the tops of the supporting towers. Yet, these bridges still seem to dangle out far beyond the towers with nothing to hold them up. With the cables cut, everything beyond the tower should have fallen immediately.<br><br>--------<br>In the football stadium when Bane grabs the microphone off the Official, it is the back judge who would not have a microphone - only the head referee would have a microphone.<br><br>--------<br>The front page of the Gotham Times headline reads "POLICE SUSPECT CAT BURGLAR IN JEWEL HIEST". Glaring misspelling.<br><br>--------<br><br><br>Incorrectly regarded as goofs<br>_________<br>Throughout the movie, the Gotham City Police Department uniform and cars show GPD and GCPD inconsistently. It is not uncommon for police forces to change vehicle liveries and/or styles of their uniforms every once in a while. New vehicles would be added to their fleet and given the new livery - to change every other older vehicle in the fleet to the same new livery would not be cost-effective.<br><br>--------<br>At the start of the film, when Selina Kyle inspects Bruce Wayne's desk, a picture of Rachel can be seen next to a picture of Bruce's parents. Later on Miranda Tate inspects a similar set of photos after Bruce broke into his own house. The second set of photos were different as they were not in Bruce's bedroom but more likely a downstairs lounge area.<br><br>--------<br>Early on in the film Bane makes a big point about how he was born in the dark and never saw light till he was a grown man. Later when we see the pit it is not only well lit but we get another speech about how the view of the sky is a key part of the prison's design. He never said he was born in the prison. Simply in the dark.<br><br>--------<br>In the film, the new fusion reactor developed by Wayne Enterprises is turned into a weapon, despite earlier concerns about the potential misuse of novel technology. However, the discovery of fusion power was not necessary to create such a "fusion" weapon - the fundamental principle of fusion has been used in thermonuclear devices for decades. More specifically, the weapon in the film was described as a "neutron bomb", a thermonuclear weapon which creates much radiation but has a relatively small explosive yield. It should be noted that such a weapon, stated by Dr. Pavel to have a 4-megaton yield, would still bombard Gotham's waterfront with deadly radiation even after being carried 6 miles out to sea. However, neutron bombs are based on fission, not fusion, because they rely on the radioactive material of a fission reaction to disperse radiation into the surrounding environment. Fusion produces significantly less radiation than fission and deals with much less radioactive materials. It is possible bane referring to the device as a neutron bomb is either a mistake by the character or mere hyperbole.<br><br>--------<br>After saving the Selina from Bane's men on the rooftop Batman parks the Bat in the cave followed by the scene where Alfred tells him about the letter and then leaves. When Bruce Wayne returns from the prison and saves Fox with the help of Selina and Fox asks where he had parked the Bat, it is parked on the rooftop of a building rather than where he had left it, in the cave. Batman most likely flew it onto the rooftop on his way to meet Selina in the subway, even though we don't see him travel there.<br><br>--------<br>It is not possible for Fox to know in which hour or minute exactly the nuclear device is going to explode as he didn't know at what time it was armed and countdown began. However, he was there when the reactor was activated, so he'd have a fairly good guess.<br><br>--------<br>Midway through the movie, there is an aerial shot of a Tumbler (Batmobile) being slowly driven down a snow-covered street. The vehicle features a set of 4 rear wheels, yet only a single set of tire tracks are left in its path. However given that the Tumbler is a real vehicle constructed for the movie (neither a special effect, nor fake constructed over another vehicle) this is probably how the vehicle leaves tracks at low speed. (Six-wheel drive is unlikely to be efficient in slow city driving.)<br><br>--------<br>In "Batman Begins" Lucius Fox says about the Batsuit: "This sucker will stop a knife." In "The Dark Knight Rises", Batman gets stabbed. However, in "The Dark Knight", Fox gives Batman a new suit that makes him more agile but also "more vulnerable to knives and gunfire". If Batman kept his old suit, it's likely that the knife would've been less effective.<br><br>--------<br><br><br>Revealing mistakes<br>_________<br>During the shootout in the alley between the cops and terrorists after Selina meets Stryver in the bar, one of the SWAT team appears to already have a bullet hole in the back of his flak jacket exactly where the sniper shoots him moments later.<br><br>--------<br>When Selina is fighting the goons on the roof and Batman comes to help her, her shoes go from being high heels to flats (especially noticeable when she runs for the Bat) - despite clearly making a point of her shoes being heels in the prior scene with Daggett<br><br>--------<br>During the stadium scene in Gotham City, at one point a logo reading "UPMC" (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center) is clearly visible next to Bane's head.<br><br>--------<br>During the "winter" scenes on the isolated Gotham, many streets have a dusting of "snow" only to have trees with green leaves visible a block away.<br><br>--------<br>Many instances of Bane's henchman attacking one at a time and not reacting at all when being ambushed.<br><br>--------<br>When the captured plane's fuselage is dropped it falls straight down towards the road below rather than moving forward as it should, given it's being towed by another plane.<br><br>--------<br>The final scene of the movie shows Alfred sitting in a café in Florence reading the Italian newspaper "La Repubblica". The newspaper is printed in black and white. That's the way La Repubblica is printed in foreign countries. In Italy and therefore also in Florence it can only be bought printed in color. This would be very obvious in this take because on the left and on the right of the big "La Repubblica" top line is always placed colored advertisement.<br><br>--------<br>One of Bane's mercenaries (on the far left of the rooftop fight scene with Catwoman and Batman right after it shows Daggett) falls down without being hit.<br><br>--------<br>In the final fight sequence, when Bane sees Batman and starts his speech, two people fighting behind him clearly aren't connecting with the punches.<br><br>--------<br>When Batman saves Blake from the ambush by Christopher Judge's character, he fights the henchmen. The guy to the very left never even encounters him yet is flown backwards and falls down as if he was attacked by Batman.<br><br>--------<br>In the football stadium explosion scene, the camera quickly shifts from a ground view of the stadium collapsing to a helicopter view. The end-zones of the football field change colors when it cuts.<br><br>--------<br><br><br><br>Spoilers<br>_________<br><br><br>The goofs below may give away important plot points.<br><br><br><br><br><br>Audio/visual unsynchronised<br>When Bruce returns to Gotham and meets Selina to give her the Clean Slate, when Bruce is speaking and the camera angle changes a couple of times to behind his right shoulder, his lips are not moving.<br><br>--------<br><br>Continuity<br>Throughout the trilogy, Batman noticeably wears thick black make up around his eyes when he has his mask on. However, when he returns The Bat to the cave for the first time, he talks with Alfred without his mask on, yet there is no sign of any make-up.<br><br>--------<br><br>Incorrectly regarded as goofs<br>After Bane takes the cowl off of Batman you can see Bruce's hair and then we see Bane toss the cowl down. Moments later we see Bane's men dragging Batman but his cowl happens to be on his head and with no harm done. This is because only the front part of the cowl is ripped off, leaving the back intact and you don't see his face as he is dragged away because of shadows hiding it.<br><br>--------<br><br>Incorrectly regarded as goofs<br>At the end, when they found out its program was tampered, Fox was running analysis on "The Bat", which would have been obliterated inside a nuclear explosion. This Bat however, is the original model, light blue, shown to Bruce by Fox during their meeting. Fox explains that "it does come in black," indicating that it is quite possible he had more than one of these vehicles in his possession at Applied Sciences at that time. Considering this, any software patch used by Bruce to fix the autopilot issue would have transferred onto all of the models, making it quite possible that the vehicle seen at the end is not the one piloted by Batman during the film.<br><br>--------<br><br>Incorrectly regarded as goofs<br>3,000 police officers are trapped underground for 3 months, kept alive by food parcels, yet when they are released, not one of them shows signs of significant beard growth. However, it is possible that they received razors with their food.<br><br>--------<br><br>Plot holes<br>Daggett's plan for hijacking Wayne's company could not have happened. Not only would it be fairly evident that Wayne was not on the trading floor that day, the fact that a terrorist had seized control of the Stock Exchange and hacked into their network would have cancelled all trading that occurred that day and called any trades that went through into question.<br><br>--------<br><br>Plot holes<br>Miranda Tate is revealed to Talia, Ra's Al Ghul's daughter, and that she was, in fact in on, if not the main schemer behind the entire revolt with Bane. She would have all the knowledge Bane had, including Batman's identity as Bruce Wayne. She also sabotaged all of the attempts Gordon and his men were making to over-throw Bane's army: lying about which truck was carrying the bomb, and the identity of the secret service men who came in undercover. Why then, would she not tell Bane that Bruce Wayne was back in Gotham and had sneaked out with Selina Kyle, who she knows is no longer affiliated with them, and Fox to regroup and resupply for an attack against them?<br><br>--------<br><br>Revealing mistakes<br>In the final scene, when the bomb is shown ticking closer to zero, smoke is seen emanating from it slowly as if the bomb were stationery. But in fact it is hanging by a wire and carried away into the ocean by The Bat at high speed, so the smoke should travel much faster.<br><br>--------<br><br><br><br><br>