Feeble

Rating: 2/10 (2 August 2012)

Three questions I have to ask myself:
Why? Why do I put myself through such torture as to watch this kind of feeble mediocrity. A couple of years ago I posted a comment on The Dark Knight, and if memory serves me right I grudgingly said it was just about OK. Even then I was being charitable, but hey ho. With this one however I only have myself to blame. I knew it would be pointless, but still I went. Which adjective to choose? I want to say "portentous" but that won't do. Describing something or someone as portentous, however negatively meant, usually means that the target at least has something, some behaviour, some expression, to be portentous about. To describe a nullity like this movie as "portentous', well you might just as well describe strawberry jelly in the same way. I could level criticism at any character, at any plot point, but why bother. Suffice it to ask how could something with so much sound, fury and action, be so glacially slow? When Batman was in that silly prison, only good manners prevented me from leaping out of my seat and crying "for God's sake climb up the damn chimney you miserable ***** !"
Second question; What? What do people actually see in this, what are they taking out of it. The movie has garnered a lot of praise and a lot of criticism (not helped by the terrible events in Colorado), but everyone regardless of their stance, seems to take it seriously. Why? What are they seeing that I am so patently not? It cannot be plot, it cannot be acting, it can't really be the action and effects. So, what?
Third question; When? When will I ever see another of these ludicrous comic book movies that are being churned out, again? I can answer that one. Never! (at least I hope so!)
One last thought; compared to this "trilogy" the Tim Burton Batman was a masterpiece; good plot, well structured, well acted (the two Jacks and Keaton actually knew what they were doing) leavened with humour and real wit, something this latest movie could sorely do with.
The only conclusion I can come to about "The Dark Knight Rises" is that in this dumbed down age it offers a offers a totally spurious and bogus level of ersatz profundity and intellectualism that the audience, who are used to no better, lap up and think is the real thing. But actual entertainment (which movies like this are meant to deliver)? No way.