Not bad - but definitely overrated

Rating: 1/10 (5 August 2012)

Christopher Nolan knows what he's doing and in The Dark Knight Rises, he does a great job of distracting the viewer from what's really going on. Which is, quite frankly, A MESS.
The 'storyline' is even more sprawling and incoherent than The Dark Knight. It's an extremely lengthy movie and yet because there are an infinite number of plot strands, none of them are involving enough - and there's not really enough time spent on any of the characters, including Bruce Wayne/Batman.
There's one setting - it's a prison, I won't spoil anything - except that the prison feels completely out of place in a Batman movie. The film spends far too long there and it feels like a completely separate film, and in my opinion it would make a great film on its own - but it doesn't fit in this story at all, which should all take place in Gotham.
The main villain Bane (Tom Hardy) is a major disappointment after Heath Ledger's Joker - his face is covered with a mask and his voice is ridiculous.
But like Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight, I do feel that there was one redeeming feature to The Dark Knight Rises and that is Anne Hathaway's Catwoman. She's a much-needed breath of fresh air, energy and even comedy in an otherwise uninvolving film.