Polytechnique vs The Dark Knight Rises

The Dark Knight Rises has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 7.1/10 for Polytechnique). Polytechnique is the shorter watch at 1h 17m compared with 2h 45m. Polytechnique is the older of the two (2009 against 2012). Both are crime, drama, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Polytechnique posterPolytechnique2009 VS The Dark Knight Rises posterThe Dark Knight Rises2012
PolytechniqueThe Dark Knight Rises
Audience score★ 7.1/10★ 7.8/10
Year20092012
Length1h 17m2h 45m
GenresCrime, Drama, ThrillerAction, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country–United Kingdom
DirectorDenis VilleneuveChristopher Nolan
Main castEvelyne Brochu, Johanne-Marie Tremblay, Karine Vanasse, Natalie Hamel-Roy, Maxim GaudetteTom Hardy, Ben Mendelsohn, Aidan Gillen, Matthew Modine, Michael Caine

Synopsis

Polytechnique

A dramatization of the Montreal Massacre of 1989 where several female engineering students were murdered by an unstable misogynist.

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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