Good one...

Rating: 8/10 (10 August 2012)

I just finished watching TDKR, and I am definitely impressed.
This is what movie theaters have been invented for, to tell grand, epic story lines, to display the good and the bad and those in between, to impress audio-visually, to paraphrase the "Zeitgeist" and to explore possible consequences of current events. Christopher Nolan put all that into this movie, plus serious character development.
So then why only 8 out of 10?
The Cons: Remember, the low budget "Terminator" was a great movie because Arnold actually hit and killed what he aimed for, mercilessly. No putting a box of bullets into the "Bat" and it only shows a scratch, while Selina returns fire and blows the batmobile with one bullet. "Heat" with Al Pacino illustrated very realistically the profound impact of automatic rifles in an urban battlezone. So how can the director spend gazillions on action-sequences and still make it look like a styrofoam and firecracker battle in plastic suites? This is beyond me. If you can't pull it off, hire someone who can.