You can download the exceedingly pretty HD version at Apple, where the trailer officially premiered, or you can check out the version below, with an embed courtesy of ComingSoon.

Now that, ladies and gentlemen, is a fine bit of trailering.  It conveys principally that The Dark Knight Rises will be even more epic in scale than its predecessors, but strays away from revealing anything about the actual story and, in all instances but one, avoids showy money shots.  Instead, it builds a tone of foreboding and a sense that everything is about to go very, very wrong.  Despite only giving him one line and mostly showing him strutting, it also builds Tom Hardy's Bane is credible threat.  Anyone who saw the IMAX prologue prior to Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol this weekend got a good taste of the character, but you won't find any of that material here, which is wise.

We could spend a long time cooking up conjecture and speculation based on this trailer, but that's happening everywhere.  And it generally speaks for itself.  Though I do wonder exactly what Selina Kyle's role will be.  Nevermind, let's move on.

Christopher Nolan ends his cinematic take on the Caped Crusader, working from a screenplay by himself and Jonathan Nolan, based on a story cooked up by the directorial Nolan and his Batman Begins co-writer David S. Goyer.  All the pretty pictures in that trailer are thanks to series cinematographer Wally Pfister, while that hooky chanting was created by Hans Zimmer, who returns to score solo, without the assistance of James Newton Howard.

Christian Bale closes out his tenure as Bruce Wayne, along with Gary Oldman, Michael Caine, and Morgan Freeman.  Tom Hardy is a newcomer, as are Anne Hathaway, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Matthew Modine, and Juno Temple.

The Dark Knight Rises arrives on regular and IMAX screens July 20, 2012.