Risible

Rating: 1/10 (10 December 2012)

What is it about sequels? You get 3 excellent movies (Die Hard) followed by a 4th that's just awful, or 2 fair to middling movies (Mission Impossible) followed by a 3rd that's laughable. The Dark Knight faithfully follows the trend. While the first 2 movies were quite watchable, if not great, the third is just plain risible. It's summed up for me towards the end when, after it seems that the whole universe knows that Bruce Wayne is Batman, Commissioner Gordon, confidant to both Bruce and Batman, experiences an epiphany. "Wha...? Bruce?" As though to say, Who would have guessed? Well, everybody actually. At least, everybody with even a pinhead for a brain.
The various plot holes and laughable scenes and dialog have been well-covered, but I see that the film is still on Best Of 2012 lists, so what do I know? I watched Get the Gringo in the same week, and while that was also risible, at least it was intentionally so, and was reasonably entertaining. Better than The Dark Knight, anyway.