The Dark Knight Crises

Rating: 1/10 (27 July 2012)

Awful cuts, below average direction, pathetic screenplay, horrible dramaturgy. It has been a long time since I witnessed such a failure on the big screen. I decided to register on IMDb 10 minutes ago, because I am flabbergasted that someone could consider this feature 1st among all time motion pictures. Outrageous.
The whole movie feels like a classic hero movie we've all seen before. Full of bad clichés, most of them presented in a most ineffective way.
How can you turn a movie with Sir Michael Caine (very good), Morgan Freeman (good), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (best of them all), Gary Oldman (ok) and Christian Bale (below expectations Christian, you are capable of so much more than this) into such a fiasco?
Their presence along with Anne Hathaway (boring) and Marion Cotillard (good) is what saves the whole 2h+ dumb attempt at manipulating the masses into following a remotely tolerable fantasy.
I have seen better movies from Nolan, the way they stitched together bits and pieces of the story to patch up a leaking narrative is almost offensive.
No respect whatsoever for the intelligence of the public. They could have put in a much better effort to weave together the several strands of the adventure and they did not do so.
Just put a monkey with a mask to lead the bad guys, then...
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...reveal to everyone that behind him is a devious woman the hero has a relationship with.
Wow, what a cool message. We've never seen it before! Thanks a lot. We can once again cheerfully associate the fact you let someone close to your heart with the fact that she will stab you and be so stupid to go and try to kill other people.
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And please, put a lot of nice words into the mouth of the villain, so that whatever he says to defend the people from the banks will be considered evil, especially in connection to articulate arguments and perfectly defensible opinions about the bank crisis situation.
I hope this comes not out of fear of loosing personal richness that Nolan decided to sell the world this gross installment of the Batman Movies series.
What is the message here? No matter how much people suffer because of bank debt, or how articulate any defense of their rights against the politics that try and steal more from them, they are still monkeys with a mask and should be considered evil?
If you are going to try mass control in the internet era try harder. And for batsake, make a movie worth spending money and 2h+ to begin with, this at least can be asked of you.