The Dark Knight Rises
“The legend ends.”
Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation and is subsequently hunted by the Gotham City Police Department. Eight years later, Batman encounters the mysterious Selina Kyle and the villainous Bane, a new terrorist leader who overwhelms Gotham's finest. The Dark Knight resurfaces to protect a city that has branded him an enemy.
How The Dark Knight Rises compares
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of The Dark Knight, not taken from this film’s own record.
- #2 of 3
- Rank in the series by rating
- 4 years
- Wait since the previous film
- 29%
- Share of the series audience
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) ranks 2nd of the 3 rated films in The Dark Knight series, at 7.8/10 on TMDB against a series average of 8.0/10.
It arrived 4 years after The Dark Knight (2008), the longest wait between any two films in The Dark Knight series.
Its 24,943 TMDB ratings are 29% of the 84,823 cast across the series.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for The Dark Knight, comparing all 3 released films in the series. Last recalculated September 2026.
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