15 Massively Underrated Movies From The 2010s

12. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

The Dark Knight Rises may have been a commercial success, becoming the second Batman movie to gross over $1bn at the box-office, and it was mostly well-received by critics. Except, of course, when compared to The Dark Knight.

It'd be hard for any movie to live up to the best comic book film ever made, but TDKR does an admirable job of trying by being a different kind of story, with a villain who is methodical where the Joker thrives in chaos, and tying the whole trilogy back around to Batman Begins in a nice full-circle narrative.

The film's reputation, however, only seems to have declined further and further since its release, with ire directed at its numerous alleged plot holes, its ending, and again the fact it's not The Dark Knight. And it's true that it isn't as good as its predecessor and it does have some problems, but this is still - for the most part - masterful blockbuster filmmaking from Christopher Nolan.

The scale of it is epic, it escalates things in a realistic fashion as possible, and brings strong echoes of iconic comic book moments while also further examining Bruce Wayne, with a fitting climax to everything Nolan had built across his whole trilogy.