Need for Speed vs The Dark Knight Rises

The Dark Knight Rises has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 6.4/10 for Need for Speed). Need for Speed is the shorter watch at 2h 11m compared with 2h 45m. The Dark Knight Rises is the older of the two (2012 against 2014). Both are action, crime, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Need for Speed posterNeed for Speed2014 VS The Dark Knight Rises posterThe Dark Knight Rises2012
Need for SpeedThe Dark Knight Rises
Audience score★ 6.4/10★ 7.8/10
Year20142012
Length2h 11m2h 45m
GenresAction, Crime, Drama, ThrillerAction, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country–United Kingdom
DirectorScott WaughChristopher Nolan
Main castAaron Paul, Rami Malek, Dominic Cooper, Imogen Poots, Harrison GilbertsonTom Hardy, Ben Mendelsohn, Aidan Gillen, Matthew Modine, Michael Caine

Synopsis

Need for Speed

The film revolves around a local street-racer who partners with a rich and arrogant business associate, only to find himself framed by his colleague and sent to prison. After he gets out, he joins a New York-to-Los Angeles race to get revenge. But when the ex-partner learns of the scheme, he puts a massive bounty on the racer's head, forcing him to run a cross-country gauntlet of illegal racers in all manner of supercharged vehicles.

The Dark Knight Rises

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.

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