A convoluted slow ride to Paris!

Rating: 3/10 (13 August 2012)

It is difficult to write a bad review of a Batman movie. The franchise, started for most of us in childhood, grew to reach major movie studio treatment. That being said, the Dark Night Rises is a laughable attempt at completing the Batman story. At a very long 2 hour and 45 minutes, I eventually felt I was being held against my will. In fact, by the end, I was hoping that Metropolis would once and for all be destroyed. As luck would have it, that did not come to pass. The movie was filled with plot holes, a ridiculous villain and contrived drama. As the clock on the bomb counted down from the overused 5 seconds, a silent cheer could be heard in the audience watching with me as the end neared. The plot line, hard to call it that as it is more of a plot meander, like a slow moving stream that carves its way snaking along the unremarkable flatness of the mid-west, covers far too much territory far too glibly. The only character that was actually fun to watch was that of Anne Hathaway, and not for the most obvious of reasons. Her snide and cynical portrayal seems just right for this abomination of a film. I lack the ambition to finish this review as it makes me relive nearly three hours when I was held prisoner by The Batman!