Netflix Is Officially Removing Tom Hardy’s Divisive $1 Billion Epic

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This past summer, Christopher Nolan broke his personal box-office records with the fantasy epic The Odyssey. The movie grossed nearly $1.8 billion worldwide and received excellent reviews. It’s now considered a favorite in multiple Oscars categories. Nolan is coming off his first-ever Best Picture and Best Director wins at the Academy Awards, for the biographical thriller Oppenheimer. Released in 2023, Oppenheimer exceeded all expectations to gross nearly $1 billion worldwide. It also fell just $100 million short of becoming Nolan’s highest-grossing hit. Before The Odyssey, this title was held by The Dark Knight Rises, which is currently streaming in the United Kingdom on Netflix, but only for a little while longer.

The movie was released in 2012 and serves as the final installment of Nolan’s critically acclaimed The Dark Knight Trilogy. While the film opened to excellent reviews at the time, the response has mellowed over time. That said, the movie is still remembered for Tom Hardy‘s iconic performance as the villainous Bane. With returning star Christian Bale in the lead role, the film also featured Anne Hathaway, Gary Oldman, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Marion Cotillard, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

Four criminal masterminds. One of them was always going to be yours.
Here is who comes for you, why they picked you out of everyone available, and what they want from
the encounter.

Your nemesis does not want to beat you. He wants to know you
completely, and he is patient enough to wait for it. The frightening part is how good the
conversation is.

• Lecter is the most dangerous kind of opponent: the one who finds you interesting. He
  never raises his voice, because he has never needed to.
• You keep a great deal to yourself and you are careful about what you show. That reserve
  is exactly the door he would knock on.
• The films understood something other thrillers missed. The horror is not the violence.
  It is being perfectly understood by the wrong person.
• He would be unfailingly polite about all of it. That is the worst part.

Your nemesis is not after money, territory or revenge. He is
after a demonstration, and you are the person he has chosen to prove his point on.

• The Joker only picks opponents who believe in something. Your decency is not a defence
  against him. It is the entire reason he showed up.
• He has no plan you can predict and nothing you can take away, which removes every tool
  you would normally reach for.
• His whole argument is that you are one bad day away from being him, and you would spend
  the rest of your life proving him wrong.
• He would call it a magic trick. You would call it the worst night of your life.

Your nemesis respects you, which sounds flattering until you work
out what it means. He chose you because nobody else was worth his time.

• Moriarty is the original criminal mastermind, the template every later one borrows from:
  a mind the equal of the hero’s, pointed the wrong way.
• You enjoy being the cleverest person in the room. He is counting on exactly that, and he
  has already built the room.
• This is the rare nemesis who would be genuinely disappointed if you lost badly. He needs
  the game to be worth playing.
• It ends the way these things always end. Two people, one problem, and only one way down.

Your nemesis has no personal interest in you whatsoever, and that
is precisely what makes him unsurvivable. You are not a rival. You are a stop on the way.

• Chigurh does not negotiate, gloat or explain. He arrives, he asks one question, and the
  answer was decided long before you opened your mouth.
• You trust yourself to handle things. He is the one problem in the world that has no
  interest in how capable you are.
• No Country for Old Men rewrote the screen villain by removing the thing audiences
  quietly rely on: the sense that talking might work.
• Call it. He will wait.

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It now holds a “Certified Fresh” 87% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus reads, “The Dark Knight Rises is an ambitious, thoughtful, and potent action film that concludes Christopher Nolan’s franchise in spectacular fashion.” Produced on a reported budget of $250 million, the film grossed $1.08 billion worldwide, narrowly surpassing The Dark Knight‘s global haul of $1.05 billion. Nolan’s trilogy inspired several other studio tentpoles to take a grounded approach to their storytelling, with films such as Snow White and the Huntsman, Man of Steel, and Godzilla following not long afterward. You can watch The Dark Knight Rises on Netflix in the UK until November 7, and stay tuned to Collider for more updates.

The Dark Knight Rises

Eight years after the Joker’s reign of chaos, Batman is coerced out of exile with the assistance of the mysterious Selina Kyle in order to defend Gotham City from the vicious guerrilla terrorist Bane.