All three Dark Knight parts have been returned to Amazon Prime’s streaming program. These include Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012). Christopher Nolan’s trilogy counts for many DC fans one of the best superhero films of all time.
The Dark Knight in particular stands out with Heath Ledger’s terrific performance as the Joker. But you shouldn’t miss the other two parts eitherif you have an Amazon Prime subscription.
Now on Amazon Prime: In the Dark Knight trilogy, Batman fights against iconic villains
In Nolan’s Batman films, Christian Bale takes on the role Role of the battle-hardened bat. In Batman Begins, Bruce Wayne is a billionaire playboy, but then becomes a criminal-hunting Batman. At the beginning he is supported by Michael Caine as butler Alfred Pennyworth, Morgan Freeman as technology expert Lucius Fox and Gary Oldman as police officer James “Jim” Gordon.
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Bruce Wayne as Bat in Batman Begins
In The Dark Knight, Bruce Wayne has to take on the Joker. He’s trying to plunge Gotham into chaos. Batman has to go on the right path, because he walks between justice and revenge.
In the final part of the trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises, we first see a broken Bruce Wayne. He had to go underground because he would have to take on the crimes of another. But when the terrorist Bane (Tom Hardy) appears, he is forced to reappear on the scene.
Nolan’s masterful Batman trilogy shaped blockbuster cinema and is now streaming on Amazon Prime
After Batman Begins got off to a solid start at the box office, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises really came out on top. Both grossed over $1 billion. So the trilogy was a financial success. This was particularly formative for blockbuster cinema gritty, realistic approach, which Nolan brought with him to the comic book adaptation. Numerous other films have emulated this approach in the years since.
If you haven’t seen the films yet, you can now watch them with a streaming subscription on Amazon Prime. And if you already know it, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with diving back into Christopher Nolan’s fascinating DC world.
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