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941 out of 1568 people found the following review useful:
Awful plot. People in this movie are sheep without character, 21 July 2012
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Author:
Srikanth Raju from Fremont, California
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I don't get what all the 10's are about. I don't see how this movie is
a 10, or rather even an 8. There are so many plot holes, the characters
are so one dimensional, action sequences OK at best.
Where do I even begin. Banes voice. I admit, I didn't get what he was
saying more than half the time, and even then I had to strain really
hard. It was just awful. There were jokes about not understanding Bales
growling, but this, this is something else. The movie would have been
better without him talking.
Catwoman! Suddenly she feels remorse and becomes goody goody at the
end, Oh the lord, this was about as predictable as rain in
Seattle(very, if you're unsure).
Talia, what a big face-palm. Might as well have made a movie when the
Batman woke up from a dream at that point. Can the plot get ANY more
clichéd? Thanks for popping up the MAIN criminal at the end of the
movie, who apparently had the hots for Batman.
Batman, his screen time is mostly groaning and screaming and getting
beaten around in boxing by Bane. He becomes a superior fighter by
jumping across the ledge? I think that's not how the body works. There
isn't any Batman stuff at all. Just punching and kicking. Muhammad Ali
would have been a better hero to fit that role (Yay, incoming dislikes
from people who don't know who that is). Also, big copter no one can
find, yea right.
Sheep followers wanting to get blown up. Ya, because getting evaporated
by a nuclear bomb is so awesome that every "mercenary" wants to do it.
Oh, but they didn't know that they'd be blown up.
All policemen going underground like a herd of cows because they want
to scout out the underground operations and therefore getting caught.
Sigh.
Big fight scenes. Police officers don't walk in formation with guns
against a bunch of mercenaries on higher ground and they all don't
start shooting at point blank range. No. That's not how police work. Or
any modern force with guns. That ONLY works in Lord of the Rings,
because they had SWORDS! Who wrote this script?
The other batman movies were good. The first one was great. The second
was good too. This one is ridiculous. I don't know how people can be so
blind to so many obvious flaws. Even with that, the best moments in
this film are...unimpressive. Did I go into the theater with high
hopes. Not at all. I expected average, I was disappointed to not find
even that.
Will be ever get another Prestige from these guys? I hope so.
1059 out of 1814 people found the following review useful:
Beautiful. Immense. Spectacular. Perfect., 18 July 2012
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Author:
MattTheMovieMan from Australia
I just came out of watching this movie about 30 minutes ago. It was a
midnight screening, and it is now 3:50 in the morning. I couldn't
resist coming onto this website and telling everyone about the
experience.
It was one of the greatest pieces of cinema I have ever seen. I'm not
just saying this as a normal audience member who enjoys a good movie or
two, but I am saying this as a man who has experienced the delights of
hundreds of films. This movie was one of the best.
This movie relishes in the emotional journey presented, in conjunction
with the various characters whom you just want to see more and more and
develop whatever connection with them as possible. I personally want to
possess the awesomeness that is Bane. The soundtrack definitely adds a
very special...edge, you could say, to the total film experience. The
"Bane chant" is definitely one that will always pump you up after
watching this movie.
I could go on and on about how great this movie is, but I have limited
space, and so will finish with this: This movie is absolutely
fantastic. You will not be disappointed should you see this film. I had
extremely high expectations and it delivered. While my optimistic
approach to judging this movie may stem from it being brand new and
fresh after what feels like a long 4 years since The Dark Knight, there
is no denying that this movie will be one to remember for years to
come. People worrying about it being overshadowed by the Dark Knight
need not worry. This film delivers just as well.
660 out of 1068 people found the following review useful:
A fulfilling end to a legendary trilogy!, 18 July 2012
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Author:
Akshit Markan from India
As this movie was the most awaited movie of the decade, I obviously
wanted to watch it as soon as possible. My friend won some contest
online and so, I got to watch it a few days earlier FOR FREE.
The movie is everything you want it to be. The story is very well told
and there is enough of Nolan-kind twists. Tom Hardy has some powerful
lines as Bane but the enhanced voice doesn't work at all. But, he still
does his character justice and performs to his full potential. For the
first time in the trilogy, Batman wasn't the strongest. This gave a
chance to Christian Bale to show off his acting skills without the mask
and he did a fine job. The veterans Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman and
Michael Caine went about their job as if it was just another day at the
office. But, a major surprise was Joseph Gordon-Levitt who portrays an
ordinary police officer and pulls of an unexpectedly awesome
performance.
The special effects, sound and action were out of the world. Nolan
spent a lot of money and he made it visible in the movie. The movie
connects all the dots from the previous movies and provides a fitting
end to the saga. Although, personally I liked The Dark Knight better.
But, TDKR certainly came very close it.
Finally, I would like to thank Christopher Nolan for portraying Batman
in a way no one ever thought was possible and for making one the best
trilogy of all time.
711 out of 1210 people found the following review useful:
It was okay..., 18 July 2012
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Christopher Reid from Australia
The best thing about this movie is how satisfying it is. It doesn't
leave you frustrated or confused. You can't really complain that it
didn't explore certain ideas or follow through. By deciding to have an
official ending to this trilogy's story, the themes surrounding Batman
are very fresh. We don't know where he'll end up. It's not the same old
thing about whether he can continue to be Batman or not, which was
already getting repetitive in Spider-man 2. The conclusions are not as
important as the feelings they invoke as they come about. Nolan is
especially good at capturing the complete tension of actually not
knowing what will happen and deeply questioning what you *want* to
happen and why.
This movie is bigger than the previous two, far more ambitious. There
are no obvious annoying weaknesses that usually come with films in
general, especially blockbuster action movies. All of Nolan's movies
have deep psychological themes and this takes those in another new
direction. I thought Inception was hugely original and insightful about
the way people think. That level of abstraction and depth is present in
this film. Bane bursts into it, his reputation is quickly established.
Nolan uses people's expectations and anticipation to the fullest. We
are left to wonder about what has happened in the 8 years since the
events of The Dark Knight. Why have the characters become the way they
are now?
In the latter half, it does seem like the movie is trying to pull off
so many different plot points and connections, but they all work. The
cast is very large and impressive. You don't see "good acting". You see
fascinating characters. They're just playing their part in the grand
story that's being crafted. There are many unfamiliar faces but they
all have a strange, unique look to them. We often see a person's flaws
and previous decisions coming back to haunt them. They find out the
hard way what mistakes they have made. Where their limits are. Where
they lose control.
The score is almost tribal, very raw and energetic. You don't get much
chance to pay attention to it but many parts of the movie are pounding
with excitement. There are countless quotable lines and disturbing
slices of dialogue. They cut deep. The Joker was a great character and
this is a very different movie but the themes are just as dark, only
perhaps indirectly. Underneath, it's very sinister. Writing and
efficiency appear to be among Nolan's greatest strengths. The story has
many layers that interweave and apparently they came in under budget.
Perhaps the most important thing about Catwoman is that she's
completely believable. When she beats up men, you don't roll your eyes.
She's feminine and powerful in her own way. She fits into the world and
we completely understand her motivations. She doesn't have a huge role
but a very important one.
I didn't find myself moved but maybe I'm too cynical. I was more
affected psychologically. Curious about humanity and all the different
sides of it you see in this movie. It goes to many extremes. I felt
humbled by my complete lack of life experience. What do I know about
anything? How could I possibly understand half of the characters? I
haven't been through anything or achieved anything compared to most of
them. Michael Caine gets a bigger role this time. He was always
critical but this time he's very much the emotional core.
I thought Christian Bale was overlooked in The Dark Knight especially.
The movies hinge on him. Bruce Wayne's just a man but also incredibly
inspirational. Bale's famous for completely committing to his roles and
it pays off. Tom Hardy is impressive as Bane but I suppose that's no
surprise. The rest of the leads are similarly awesome. There are many
references to the earlier films. Very few questions are left
unanswered. It's always nice when film-makers really think it through
and make an actual decision and get all the details right.
So anyway, I'll miss Batman (since the trilogy has ended) but couldn't
have hoped for a better, more epic and sincere finale to his story.
429 out of 679 people found the following review useful:
3 Areas of Disappointment, 24 July 2012
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Author:
DAVID KIM from United States
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My areas of disappointment : 1) Bane, 2) the threat on the city
(nuclear), and 3) the Mr. Nolan's surprising lack of storytelling and
bleak cinematic visual (even though he seemingly had the best filming
tools to deliver so.).
1) I only wished the Mr. Nolan did not abruptly reduce his newest
villain, Bane, to something so insignificant and small. The menacing,
intelligent, "brute force" was indeed a towering figure throughout the
movie until he presents himself as secondary towards the end of the
trilogy.
2) And the threat on Gotham City, a nuclear one, was surprisingly
unoriginal considering how innovative the poisonous vapor threat was in
"Batman Begins" or how chaos forced the protagonists of Gotham to make
extremely troubling decisions in "The Dark Knight."
3) Something breathtaking was so suppose to happen in either the plot
or in the IMAX grandeur. However, Mr. Nolan surprisingly failed to
deliver in both areas. Mr. Nolan did not make us hold our breath like
he did in the "Dark Knight" nor did he captivate our focus with his
playful plots and mind bending cinematic visuals as he did in
"Inception." In other words, I could not help but looking back at his
past films while watching the "TDKR."
There were a few other things that caught my immediate, negative
attention. But who cares. It is really over now. This was how Mr. Nolan
decided to end this truly life defining story. With that said, I am
simply stunned and truly hurt that the trilogy had to end . . . like
this.
davidwoongkim, Seoul
401 out of 634 people found the following review useful:
Dark Knight Rises falls short of greatness, 20 July 2012
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Author:
ammerender-singh from India
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I came out with slight disappointment after watching DKR for I had huge
expectations from Nolan after an exceptional TDK.
I am huge fan of first two installment of Batman Trilogy and I liked
DKR. It's a good movie but it could have been much better.
So rather than discussing its merit, which are many, I am pointing out
its shortcomings.
It's the weaker than other movies of trilogy and simple reason being it
lacks strong characters. DKR is all about storytelling just like
Nolan's Inception but not as efficient. And in doing so it fails where
Batman Begins and The Dark Knight had succeeded.
Batman Begins was all about fear, doubt, self-realization and
redemption where Bruce Wayne discovers his destiny as Batman. BB had a
story arc which set background for main characters Batman/ Wayne,
Ra's al Ghul, Gordon (to some extent) and most importantly Gothom City
and hence set stage for a fitting climax.
The Dark Knight explores the theme of chaos, morality and belief
effortlessly and establishes characters of Joker, Harvey Dent/Two Face,
Rachel etc. so effortlessly that people choose to ignore even some
major plot holes. Heath Ledger's interpretation of Joker was so
mesmerizing that it single handily carried TDK to path of greatness/
critical acclaim.
But Dark Knight Rises is all about story telling efficient but not
exceptional. Bane, Miranda Tate, John Blake, Peter Folly (Deputy
Commissioner), Selina Kyle characters are introduced but never
explored/ expanded - they just start working on their part - just like
cogs in the wheel. They are not so much part of the story itself but
just the agents which move the story forward.
Bane's character is dull and single dimensional and do not evoke any
fear or awe. He's meticulous, intelligent and strong and this is
established quickly in movie but after that he slumps into a just
another movie villain. Taila / Miranda character is never fully
explored. Even Wayne/Batman is devoid of any emotions in this one and
he feels so sure of himself that I start wondering if it's the same
Batman that I saw in first two installments. Only new character which
had some shades was that of Selina Kyle and Anne Hathaway did justice
to it. Add to that helplessness of Alfred portrayed superbly by Caine.
Other actors are good but there's not much for them to do.
There's no dilemma,doubt, love, choices, moral battles, hope, even no
chaos/fear- things which make characters and plot interesting ( at
least for me) and which made Batman Begins and The Dark Knight really
good movies. Even the theme of "Occupy Wallstreet" is very weak and at
best it's closer to London riots with its loot and arsoning. There's
even perfect order in Bane's revolution. Movie moves effortlessly from
one plot to another and to climax that it become at times predictable.
But maybe Dark Knight Rises was supposed to be like that only and Nolan
had too much to deal with in 2.5 hours. And maybe that's the main
problem with DKR too much is going on in the story that it seems
crammed at times. And when there are too many characters and so many
story arcs and it's tough to do justice to characters and story telling
at the same time. And this is when you start looking for plot holes,
slackness, predictability et al.
-----------------some spoilers-----------------------
Such as Bane's plan cement/explosive, Wayne- Miranda's romance, Blake
guessing Wayne's personality, Miranda-Talia twist, Batman doing Angels
& Demons stunt,Batman's escape from death, Blake as Robin (LOL) and
Alfred in last scene.
------------------spoilers end -------------------------
All movies have a style which depends on story and its story teller.
And there' no point of comparing different styles, say that of
Starwars, Godfather, Transformers or story tellers say Tarantino,
Cameron etc. Whatever maybe the style, good movies play to its
strengths story/screenplay, characters, style, pace or all. Try to
recall some good movies and think what you like the most.
Dark Knight Rises have a good story but lacks strong characters and
relies Inception's style which incidentally differs from style of first
two installments of Batman Trilogy.
And for me, soul of Nolan's Batman Series is its strong characters,
their underlying emotions and a theme which is much deeper and
meaningful than all fight, gadgetry and style. And this is where DKR
fails.
7/10
356 out of 548 people found the following review useful:
True Batman Fan's Worst Nightmare, 21 July 2012
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Author:
dolemite1992 from United States
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I have no Idea what to even start with about what was wrong with this
movie. Apart from the obvious Richard Nixon voice Batman has had in
every movie of this trilogy, now we also have a villain we can barely
understand .
They sit there and expect us to believe that with all the time Bruce
Wayne spent training and all the time he spent with Ra's Al Ghul he
doesn't even know who his daughter is who is very high up in the
League?
Then they use the classic bomb going to blow up the city. The bomb that
was built to be a fusion reactor. So why does it have a clear LED
display of the time on it? And why after flying it in reality about 2
miles off the coast no one is hurt. There is no radiation. No title
wave from the ocean. Just a cloud.
Then lets look at the spare Batmobiles that the enemies have. I find it
really hard to believe that I could blow up a batmobile with only one
missile yet his is pretty much indestructible.
Then when Bruce escapes prison he magically shows up in a town with
only one bridge that is guarded by the military. There were so many
aspects of the movie where things just happened. And we have no choice
but to accept them.
The biggest problem of all though, Robin. Why the people in the movie I
was in cheered when she said his name was Robin I'll never know. Let's
see what the main parts they got wrong were. Obviously the name. His
parents dying's back-story was nowhere near right. Robin was a trapeze
artist not a detective. I don't know why people like this movie. Maybe
because they are supposed to who knows. But if you are a true fan out
there then you will most likely hate this film for the crap it is.
This movie didn't feel like a Batman movie to me. There was no gadgets,
no detective work, no anything. Only thing that this movie taught me is
that now I know for a fact. DC cannot do special effects and in the
movie industry will always fall short to fans.
245 out of 345 people found the following review useful:
The Dark Knight Rises review which is tedious and overstretched and over-hyped and chaotic, matching the style of the movie, 26 July 2012
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Author:
renemioch from Amsterdam
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Don't waste your money, The Dark Knight was terribly awesome, every
scene in that film as stand alone is better than this film.
It was overcrowded with characters, half of whom don't really add to
the story, while taking up valuable screen time of the main characters.
It missed Batman, this was essentially a film about Bruce Wayne and his
problems. The story isn't just about good versus evil (which worked
great in The Dark knight and helps focus the film's plot) but wants to
explore all kinds of societies problems such as the stock market, evil
bankers ('I have my money under the mattress' ("you evil bankster") and
Occupy. Rather then exploring these themes thoroughly it just touches
them and then moves on forgetting all about it. Further more, the
action is really, really weak! This is a big issue for me since I love
action movies, maybe other people will not care as much. But the
fighting scenes between Batman and Bane are laughable. Just hitting
each other in slow motion, my god, the guy threatens to kill 12 million
people but Batman adheres to his code?? It worked great in The Dark
Knight, since the Joker was essentially creating chaos, not direct
annihilation of a city, but in this film it is totally out of context.
That scene where 300 cops run into a fortified position of bad guys
armed with AK-47's? OH REALLY?! Where were Batman's gadgets? Not the
overblown helicopter thing (my god what an inconspicuous piece of
engineering) but the subtle stuff, the smoke, the batclaw, whatever.
Just like 007 missing Q, it just doesn't work. They had to repeat some
amazing turn with his bike twice in the film just to show something
reasonable interesting in the way of action, in Avengers this would
have been in the background, once. Blurred. The stadium scene. Mehh,
seen it already seventy times in the trailer. Oh.. The film drags on
for an amazing 165 minutes! They would have had a better film cutting
it with 60 minutes. It would have helped them focus and cut unnecessary
scenes (alot you say? Yes!).
But the biggest problems with this film is the random stuff that
completely sucks:
- Openingscene: kidnap that doctor? OK. huh whats with the tube and the
blood, ehm why do only Bane and that guy hang there after it crashes
down when moments before there were like 6 bad guys in the plain on
ropes? Huh oh never mind next scene!
- Why why WHY does Bane hate batman so much? It is insinuated for most
of the movie that Batman killed his father, but in the end it shows
Bane has no real connection to Batman what so ever? Strange..
- And that prison/dark pit, in which no sunlight ever shines? ITS LIT
UP WITH THE SUN THE ENTIRE FILM!
- Why do they keep talking on ice where everybody who steps foot on it
falls through and dies? Thanks for saving me, lets continue the talk
over there where we won't DIE?
- Yeah let's kill the bad guy, not by batman but a support character,
introduce the real villain, and kill her in a car crash 5 minutes
later. And damnnnnn the acting in that scene deserves a razzie.
- Better love story than twilight!
- Yes Batman, everybody knows you are Bruce Wayne, you can start
talking normal, saves you the cough the day after.
- Bane.. ? Like three people SAY Bane is amazing big etc. But as a
viewer, you don't see it, you just don't feel the menace, nothing.
Because Bane isn't AT ALL MENACING OR BIG OR SCARY!! His voice, what a
failure. Born in the Darkness! .. 140 minutes later, oh no, he wasn't?
Or was he? No matter, he's dead. Let's not mention him again in the
rest of the film.
- Robin. Don't get me started. SAVE THE CITY! EXODUS! DRIVE A BUS WITH
15 CHILDREN TO THE BRIDGE AND FAIL IN GETTING THEM ACROSS HAHAHAHAHAHA!
- Lucius Fox was in this movie?
- Let's insinuate that Bane's goones are terrible and so committed and
'where does he get these guys?' Oh lets not explain that, lets move on
to some surgeon in a prison in a foreign country, whos story we don't
CARE ABOUT! AT ALL! PEETIME!
- Government does not negotiate with terrorists! Next scene, 'they made
a deal!' Sigh
- Etc
185 out of 232 people found the following review useful:
Choose your punishment Mr.Nolan, Death or Exile?, 30 August 2012
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Author:
Jackie Robinson from Australia
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I'm not one for writing reviews, but the positive response this movie
is getting makes me uneasy. I'm really worried about the general
population.
The acting is just shocking. Michael Cain delivers a good performance,
but because everyone else is so terribly 2 dimensional, his character
seems almost comically overacted.
The story is cliché, poorly written and the time-jumps are just bad.
Why is Bane pushed aside in the last 15 minutes of the movie and an
intelligent, interesting character turned into some girls thug (some
girl we know, or care, nothing about). It's bad, I didn't know Nolan
was capable of anything this poor. The movie would have been far better
if Bane was a real person trying to incite a real revolution. And I
find the glorification of the rich in this film interesting at a time
when their is global social unrest towards them in real life. Is this
propaganda or what?
Why don't the bad guys use their guns? Don't they know that just
pointing them at batman doesn't do anything? And walking closer and
closer to him until the gun is almost touching him also doesn't help?
And then using their gun as bat instead of as a gun is also stupid? And
the background combat is also lame. I saw way too many punches that
actually didn't touch the face of their victim. It's just poor and
unacceptable.
Why the hell do all the cops just walk towards the enemy in a big mass?
Only the first line can fire? One grenade in the middle of them will
destroy them? What kind of city sends all of their cops down a hole?
Even if they somehow decided doing this was a good idea, they wouldn't
send 10 thousand cops leaving the city unprotected. How about the army?
When Batman tells robin (LOL) to get people off the Island, why does he
go and grab 10 kids? Out of a city of millions? Where the hell is the
cities population? Why don't we see anyone except Bane and a few of
this thugs? How does Batman keep appearing exactly where he needs to be
at exactly the right time without explanation? Who the hell is
cat-women and why do we care? Why does the bad chick (who's Banes boss
apparently) keep yabbering with her finger on the detonator, instead of
just pressing the damn thing? It's not 1990, those things just aren't
acceptable.
Oh god the prison scene, It's been a long time since I've wanted to
vomit and kill myself at the same time, but this did it. Cliché to the
maximum. And when Garry drops the bomb diffuser just out of fingers
grasp, on the moving truck. Man, come on Nolan, were you even a part of
this film or did you just pay others to do it for you and pick up the
pay-check? Did anyone who's raving about how good this film is even
watch it? Makes me depressed.
I could go on and on but I can't be bothered and nobody is going to
read it. This should be a 6 on IMDb, and that's generous. People are as
stupid as the movie.
216 out of 325 people found the following review useful:
The god-awful third part of a good trilogy., 26 July 2012
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Author:
promin1792 from United States
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After seeing and liking the first and the second part of this trilogy, the third came off as a disappointment. There are only a few things that actually work in this movie - Hathaway an Levitt gave very nice performances, and were convincing despite of the ludicrously cliché lines they were given. Before seeing the movie, I presumed that (based on the reviews I had read) they had only minor roles, but the two of them guide the plot. Also some action sequences were well executed. But only a minority of them. The majority was illogical and confusing. In comparison with the second movie which I found to be, in its core ( even with the occasional shabby lines), an intelligent and elegant movie, this one lacks action. Of course that a movie shouldn't be judged by the amount of action, but in lack of it there must be a good storyline. This movie has none. Its plot is full of gaps, frustratingly illogical. One of the things that induced from me a great snore was the jail and childwhoescaped subplot. The idea of the jail is absurd. Whose prison is it, why are there no guards? Oh, I know it's inescapable... but please. Its location is outside of some ancient city walls, but very near it, and a modern complex is build only yards away (you can see it on the edge of the screen when Bruce escapes but I will get to that). Bane (the Big Bad of the movie) escorted Bruce to the Asian jail himself, made all that way just to tell Bruce that he will torture his soul, and went back to Gotham, in the US, in the matter of hours. Why making that journey? It's impractical as hell. Furthermore, the man in prison, who are paid by Bane to keep Bruce alive (the man actually uttered the line I'm paid more to keep you alive, when Bruce asked for death), are helping him fix his dislocated spine (no, it's not broken) and escape. Why? After a few tries, Bruce manages to climb the well and emerges on the surface. He throws some big, fat rope back in the pit. Where did that rope come from? Was it left outside just in case someone climbed to freedom so he can free all the other prisoners? Bruce himself had no rope that was the whole point. Is the prisoners safety rope actually tied at the surface? If so, why no one climbed the rope itself? Hell, my brother with whom I watched the movie actually thought that he threw down the safety rope to make sure nobody else would escape. Then Bruce, with no money, no passport and no knowledge of the native language returns in the terrorist occupied and military guarded Gotham. He also, at the time, has no Batmobile, Batcopter or any other Bat-based vehicle. How did he get into the city? Fortunately, once in the city, he found his Bat-copter lying on the roof of a middle-height building, a huge thing covered only with a nett, and visible from air. With all the riots in the city, is it possible that nobody had stumbled upon it? Also, once in the Bat-copter, he encourages the not-long-ago buried police forces (who all have clean clothes and are clean-shaved after being underground for months) to attack the terrorists, but instead of helping them by shooting the enemy from air superiority, he lands the Bat-copter and seeks Bane for a fistfight. Is this not idiotic? The only action scene that was good was the one after the stock-market attack when Batman made a dashing escape. But, not even this scene can be compared with the ones from the second movie which were thrilling, masterfully directed and longer. They were also simpler, there was no atom bomb, there were just guns and explosives, but it worked better, it was more realistic, and darker. Unfortunately, what replaced action is load of parapsychology, the endlessly recycled story of the orphan Bruce, with many annoying flashbacks from previous films. You know the movie is not doing well when there are flashbacks involved. What got on my nerves a lot was also that all lectured Bruce, the man who sacrificed everything to help Gotham and do good. Alfred was particularly pathetic. Bane is truly a poorly done movie villain. The comic book character is said to have some intelligence. This was not present here. The opening scene, the delivery of the plan of doctor Pavel's abduction: Bane has executed a pointlessly expensive and complicated operation where he sacrificed unnecessarily three of his man, chopped up a plane and then used the already seen skyhook (The Dark Knight), when he easily could have attacked the plane on land. The romance between him and Coltirald's character is also redundant. His and Cotillard's background story could have been left unexplained. Even with it, both of them lack motivation. The rest of the movie Bane makes impressive entries. Actually a lot of the movie is about walking on the street, walking through the sewage, etc. And entering rooms. The romance between Bruce and Cotillard character was redundant and not probable (I accept this only if Bruce wanted a quick shag after a long time of drought). The explosion, beside the unnerving need of certain directors to explain in word what we understood in picture (someone actually had said Explosion! after we've have already seen the mushroom), was not realistic (no waves). But, as a whole, the movie is sufferable, just don't expect anything great. The thing I hated the most is that Batman is missing from this film. Bruce was more out of the suit, than in it. Seems to me that Nolan became a little bit too cocky with all the praise for the two previous movies. It's a shame because the movie could have been a lot better if he hadn't.
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