It's all about the storytelling. It's about the narrative. For me it's never about the action, about the explosions. it's about the human aspect, the emotions, the morals, the thoughts, the conflict that happens inside.
And The Dark Knight Rises delivered. Full of conflicted characters, their imperfections took turns in the spotlight. Portrayed by a stellar cast, you had the police inspector's story - his burden of deceiving the public about the truth about Two-Face; the junior police who came from an orphanage; Batman who was thoroughly "destroyed" and went into hiding; Catwoman and her struggle to start anew; Bane, a mercenary from a dark place with a soft spot for a kid and the kid who turned out to be much more than meets the eye. It was thrilling see their fates and destinies woven together. Their steely determination made their struggle to come up on top of each other gripping to witness.
Christopher Nolan knew what was important. This movie didn't rely on marketing like The Avengers, which turned out to be nothing more than a really cliched, Power Rangers-esque flick; or the strength of it's actors (Hello Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield). It was a solid story that pulled its weight and plenty of punches, and not just literally!
Inception was all about a dream within a dream and TDKR is kind of like that - a story within a story. The most gripping was the "fable" of the kid escaping the prison. We are taken through it via multiple story-tellers and that leap of faith was just so vivid, so insistent that I couldn't get it out of my head. It tied up the movie really well - look forward, jump without a safety net, then only you can leave the darkness, escape, start afresh.
Which, at the end of the movie, was exactly what happened for all the good guys.
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