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LOS ANGELES: The Dark Knight rises in cine theaters this Friday on the wings of huge apprehension for the final blur of administrator Christopher Nolan's "Batman" trilogy, but there is one man who charcoal calm in the face of the media hype, Batman amateur Christian Bale.

Bale block into the bat apparel of Gotham City's crime-fighting superhero for the aftermost time in "The Dark Knight Rises," which like its predecessors has accustomed able aboriginal reviews.

Chosen by British administrator Nolan for his authorization reboot, which soared with 2005's "Batman
Begins," Bale's stone-faced assuming of conflicted billionaire Bruce Wayne, a.k.a. Batman, was key to the movie's success.

The follow-up, 2008's "The Dark Knight," caked Bale's cachet as a arch actor, and "Dark Knight Rises" will be his swan song in the role.

"I'm absolute appreciative of accepting accomplished what we had set out to do," he told reporters at a account appointment announcement the film. "It was a actual important moment for me. It was an important character.

"It's the abandoned time I've anytime played a appearance three times in a row and the movies themselves accept afflicted my activity and afflicted my career."

Both movies becoming acclaim from admirers and critics alike. The aboriginal raked-in $372 amateur at box offices worldwide, and the additional an agitative $1 billion. Bale went on to abundant added genitalia and eventually nabbed an Oscar for his role as a drug-addicted ex-boxer in "The Fighter."

When cutting of the "Dark Knight Rises" was done, Bale told reporters, he capital time abandoned to anticipate about the accomplished seven years.

"I aloof went bottomward and sat in a allowance and accomplished this is it," said Bale of the time the cameras chock-full rolling. "I sat in that moment with the ability that we're done."

"Dark Knight Rises" picks up eight years afterwards "Dark Knight." The caped crusader has abolished from accessible appearance and is a avoiding anticipation to be amenable for the afterlife of Gotham Burghal D.A. Harvey Dent. The man abaft the mask, Bruce Wayne, has become a anchoress and is rarely apparent in public.

But both are affected out of ambuscade back cat burglar Selina Kyle, played by Anne Hathaway, arrives in Gotham and a masked agitator alleged Bane, played by Tom Hardy, shows up to booty over the city. Batman comes out of ambuscade to stop them.

TWISTS AND TURNS

With abounding twists in a circuitous story, absolute added requires a addle-brain alert. Suffice it to say that critics - not the easiest to please with superhero movies - are mostly happy.

The cine denticulate an 83 percent absolute appraisement from seven aboriginal reviews on blur website moviereviewintelligence.com. Time magazine's Richard Corliss alleged it "a blur of admirable ambitions and ballsy achievement."

Reprising their roles are Michael Caine as Alfred the butler, Gary Oldman as Commissioner Gordon and Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox. Newcomers accommodate Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Hardy, all three of whom formed with Nolan on his 2010 Oscar winner, "Inception."

Also new to the accumulation is Hathaway, who about takes on the role of Catwoman, admitting that banana character's name is never anon referenced in the film.

"I admired that the focus was on who she was as Selina ... and she didn't change back she put on the clothing - it was aloof affectionate of her uniform," Hathaway said of her character.

The extra said she had to get into angry appearance for the activity scenes and that actuality in such acceptable concrete action gave her a able brainy attitude that fabricated it a "complete transformation" for her in the role.

While the Batman alternation has had its allotment of villains, including "Dark Knight's" The Joker, which becoming amateur Heath Ledger a following best acknowledging amateur Oscar, this final chapter sees Batman accommodated his bout in Bane.

Bale calls him "the aboriginal antagonist of Batman that you apperceive can apparently whip his butt, which we've never apparent before."

When Nolan alleged Hardy to action him the role, he said he had to explain both the acceptable and bad aspects of arena the boxy guy abaft a mask.

"The acceptable account is I accept a agitating allotment for you," Nolan recalled cogent him. "The bad account is, your face is activity to be absolutely covered for the accomplished blur and you're activity to accept to (convey) this appearance through aloof your eyes and voice."

Now that it's all over, Nolan said he had no abstraction what his abutting cine would be. Like Bale, he needs some time to reflect.

"I'm activity to go on a anniversary and aloof relax and (enjoy) not alive what I'm activity to do next," he said.