The Dark Knight Rises
4K Ultra HD
Blu Ray
Director: Christopher Nolan
Actors: Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Plot: Eight years after the Joker's reign of anarchy, Batman, with the help of the enigmatic Catwoman, is forced from his exile to save Gotham City, now on the edge of total annihilation, from the brutal guerrilla terrorist Bane.
Disc Release Date: 19 December 2017
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The Dark Knight Rises demolishes 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray with a reference HEVC / H.265 encoded 2160p transfer. The UHD Blu-ray was reviewed on a Samsung UE55KS8000 Ultra HD TV and a Samsung UBD-K8500 Ultra...
The accompanying DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track may not be the immersive Dolby Atmos / DTS:X track fans were hoping for, but that's really no big thing when you consider that the lossless offering still...
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As with the other Nolan releases, the Ultra HD Blu-ray disc for The Dark Knight Rises remains bare bones, with the accompanying Blu-ray set affording the same substantial supplemental features as the earlier...
Christopher Nolan rounds out the definitive Batman series with an ambitious, flawed and suitably epic conclusion. If there was ever a candidate for a film that demanded to be split into a Part 1 and Part...
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Christopher Nolan rounds out the definitive Batman saga with a fitting conclusion that has but one flaw - it could have made for not one but two excellent movies - which, in the grand scheme of this outstanding...
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All of the virtues that Ken Brown's review of the standard Blu-ray catalogued are on vibrantdisplay in Warner's 2160p, HEVC/H.265-encoded UHD disc of The Dark Knight Rises. Toborrow some of Ken's apt description:...
The UHD disc contains the same muscular DTS-HD MA 5.1 soundtrack heard on the Blu-ray....
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The UHD disc has no extras. The included pair of standard Blu-ray discs are identical to the 2012release and contain the same extras listed in Ken's review....
Baneful ConclusionReleased in 2012, The Dark Knight Rises concluded Nolan's Batman trilogy and was probably itsmost divisive chapter. After Batman Begins surprised with its fresh take and The Dark Knightdazzled...
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Whether one shares my former colleague's opinion that the third chapter of Nolan's Dark KnightTrilogy "delivers on all fronts" or feels, as I do, that the film's weird mixture of apocalypse, dystopia and...
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Batman fights for the soul of Gotham on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray with another absolutely stunning and gorgeous HEVC H.265 encode that overshadows its Blu-ray counterpart and is undeniably the only way to watch...
Batman struggles to understand what Bane is saying with the same DTS-HD MA 5.1 soundtrack enjoyed on the Blu-ray, and while an object-based audio option would have been a much-welcomed upgrade, this track...
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All the same supplements are ported over from previous home video releases, which can be read in more detail in our review of the standard Blu-ray HERE....
In the second installment to Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, the visionary filmmaker set the bar incredibly high, not only creating the rare sequel that surpasses its predecessor but also giving moviegoers...
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Although The Dark Knight set a new precedent in comic-book film adaptations, The Dark Knight Rises thankfully lived up to expectations and thoughtfully expanded on the grounded-in-reality universe set...