Attached to full IMAX prints of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol is a six-minute prologue to Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, the eagerly-anticipated closer to Nolan’s Batman trilogy.  This excerpt sets up the hunt for Bane, a ghastly brute who requires a nightmarish breathing apparatus, which also serves to define his horrifying visage.  Designed and shown to start the public drooling for The Dark Knight Rises, does it do its job?

Spoilers lurk ahead, for both The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises prologue!  Continue at your own peril…
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