The Dark Knight Rises is a HORRIBLE Nolan Batman

Rating: 5/10 (18 June 2013)

I'm stunned at how bad The Dark Knight Rises is; it's no where nearly as good as the first two, not...even...close, and no where nearly as good as I expected it would be.
BATMAN IS BARELY IN IT!! What the...A BATMAN MOVIE WHERE BATMAN'S HARDLY IN IT!!
Batman is barely the main star, and it's much too much Bruce Wayne. I don't get it, Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan, Bane being the main focus is one huge mistake. The Bane character is clearly good, he just does not belong in this Batman movie; it's a bad character adaptation. Bane doesn't stay true to the Batman villain franchise. The entire Batman formula is trashed in The Dark Knight Rises. Bane's too much think and not enough fight, maybe Bane needed less compose and more crazy; Bane needed some venom is what he needed. The whole damn movie needs some venom. It lacks luster. The Bane character also suffers because he's never really met with challenge by Batman. What the...not a single one of Bane's "master" plans ever get thwarted; shouldn't have Batman returned some serious ass-kicking to Bane spoiling at least some of Bane's evil schemes? Yes. Batman is tragically underutilized and when Batman does finally show on screen, it's BAAAAD, suffering from no depth and no detail in the action sequences, no story. There's no story developing in detail which was excellently present in The Dark Knight, but The Dark Knight Rises' story development is vague and...full of holes...really holesy...missing points of interest. There's no dynamic connective consistency like there is in The Dark Knight, the supporting intangibles are WEEAAAAK. The Catwoman character and the Miranda character are HOORRIBLLLE. They brought nothing, and took everything. Why did all of Gotham City's cops go down in the sewers? Please, tell me. Why does the National Security appear in The Dark Knight Rises? I thought what happens in Gotham stays in Gotham, like Vegas. This Batman franchise has gone astray. Anytime a good moment does occur in The Dark Knight Rises, it feels out of place, like some last dying remnant of The Dark Knight. Every single character in this movie dies to absolutely zero effect. Foley, Miranda, Bane, and especially Batman, or does he die, oh who cares?
With one fail release, The Dark Knight Rises has forever stained the Nolan's legacy. Chris Nolan's potential to be in the same class as Scorsese, Cameron, or Kubrick is apparently gone. Batman Begins as well as The Dark Knight were movies that were made for the fans, The Dark Knight Rises was made for the Nolans, and the same could be said for Inception. As the Nolan's stature increases their films are aiming less to appease the audiences and are becoming more self-serving. Their interpretations are growing less and less imaginative, as if they are prisoners in their own steel-trap minds. The Dark Knight Rises is 25% crafted masterpiece, 75% aimless agony. The movie is not capturing or engrossing at all. It's seriously bad, call it what you want, but it's seriously bad, for a Nolan Batman.
Batman Begins was great, The Dark Knight was really awesome, The Dark Knight Rises is relative filth.