Pretty cool, but not perfect to me

Rating: 8/10 (25 July 2012)

I have to say this movie was good. I'm gonna list my gripes about it but don't get me wrong, I'll probably pay money to see it another time at the movie theater. My first problem with it is that Christian Bale Isn't a good batman to me. He seems dry compared to all the other characters, and Batman is usually your favorite character. He's bad-ass, witty, he's the greatest detective. Batman in this movie sounds like he's battling throat cancer, he's supposed to mask his voice a little but I can hardly understand him. Batman in the animated series is the one I love, I don't think it would have been hard to make batman like that. Different casting, someone with a cool voice that doesn't take much effort to sound sinister. Another thing, Batman was so goody goody (I know this isn't just in this movie but I want to make a point of this). He isn't bad-ass. You know he wont kill anyone but even in the damn cartoon he tortured people. Criminal "I know you Batman, you wont kill anyone", Batman "you'd be surprised what you can live through". Also Batman was just so knowledge able. He knew everything about everything, he studied in the animated series, you got a hard working detective vibe off of him, and he debuted in "Detective Comics". So I felt Nolan should have showed that. It would have made Batman less dry to watch, but he wasn't a flat character in the movies.
Bane's character was menacing but his back story (Although it tied into the story nicely) was not Bane. I would have like it more if he was born in the prison and he constantly was being injected with morphine to avoid pain. That's how his character seemed to me, I believe they mention that he was too, but I feel like that should be part of his character more than the mask. That seemed like Darth Vader to me (I don't have a huge problem with that, I just felt going a different rout that was truer to his original story would have worked better). I love his voice by the way and his subtext, it screams evil. His philosophy is also interesting to hear, and his lines are quotable.
I didn't buy Catwomans interest in Bruce Wayne, although I believe her coming back for him. The romance seemed off a bit. Also the for shadowing for these movies is too obvious. There were surprises I enjoyed like when you see that Bane isn't ra's al ghul's son. I thought that was done nicely and I believed her leaking her story to him. Instead of a lot of movies where the person just tell them their past and I don't care yet. I give this movie a 7.5 out of ten or an 8. The Dark Knight deserved a 8.5 to me, but at the same time I don't really feel the need to compare the two. They both have completely different tones. The second Batman was a moral battle, this is a battle of will.