Boring, ridiculous and way overlong

Rating: 1/10 (14 October 2012)

The Dark Knight was great; well written and interesting. There are some good ideas in The Dark Knight Rises but they're spoiled by all the hammy, non-stop action and overblown emotion.
**Contains spoilers** Far-fetched: The foreign land from which Bane and chums hail should only barely be believable to someone who's never left small town America. Like a prison like that could exist anywhere.
Got a vertebrae sticking out of your back? No problem, just get hung from a rope for one scene. Do another scene of pull ups, and Bobs your uncle, cured.
Having a spot of bother getting out of a badly conceived prison? Just take the first piece of advice you get from a junky doctor with a lazy eye.
And predictable: Guided missiles chasing your plane? Just spend 5 minutes dodging between buildings to lose them. Yawn.
Fighting your nemesis? Start by getting your ass kicked, and then surprise everyone by coming back strong.
Bad guys, why use guns when you can get in a fist fight? Dead? Nope, of course not. (And don't bother to get up and say hello to your best friend if you're in the same restaurant and haven't seen each other for six months. Just smirk smugly at each other.)