There are a handful of franchises that have pulled off successful trilogies. Back to the Future. Indiana Jones. Star Wars (IV, V, VI). Then you have the failed trilogies: Alien, Terminator, The Godfather. For whatever reason, the third film often seems to find consistent quality elusive. The one franchise that looked to define a generation of filmgoers outside of wizards and Hobbiton was Christopher Nolan’s Batman. Despite a powerful filmography of solid films, from Nolan’s debut black and white thriller Following to 2010’s Inception, The Dark Knight Rises disappointingly stands as his worst film.
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