10 Best Opening Scenes From Movie Sequels
2. The Dark Knight Rises - The Plane Hijacking
In true Christopher Nolan fashion, the director of The Dark Knight saw his mind-boggling bank heist in his Batman Begins sequel and raised it a full-blown plane hijacking in The Dark Knight Rises...whilst the thing was still hurtling through the air!
Simultaneously introducing us to Gotham's latest big bad, by the name of Bane (Tom Hardy), and setting in motion plans that would eventually lead to the film's climactic conclusion, the masked villain and his henchmen outsmart a bunch of CIA agents on an aircraft. This then leads to a stunning sequence involving the plane being literally pulled out of the air by a larger craft, before the merciless former League of Shadows member kidnaps nuclear physicist Dr. Leonid Pavel and leaves no survivors as the vehicle plummets to the ground.
Nolan knew he had to deliver the jaw-dropping goods in the opening stages of this insanely anticipated follow-up, and, unlike the folks in the aforementioned falling plane, he undoubtedly stuck the landing.