Nobody Would Have Gone to See a Film Called "Batman Dies" !

Rating: 6/10 (2 April 2017)

Ironically, beautifully filmed in 70mm Imax. Rent it but do not attempt to watch it on free cable. It's 4 hours long with 78 min. of commercials skipped via fast forward. The storyline is too long and involved. "Bane's addiction" to the strength-increasing drug "Venom" is barely explained. Who is his "little sister"? An illogical plot-twist. In this version, both Batman and Bane were both trained by the same mysterious monks somewhere in Shangra-La. Bane is a "Liberal" who hates Big Money and the Rich Upper Class. He almost crashes Wall Street and blows up a sports stadium. Hundreds of innocent people die. He turns a fusion energy project into a nuclear bomb which will destroy millions. Batman picks up the "bomb" and flies it away from the city in his Batplane. (He dies?) Thus, future movies will have Robin as the hero. Bane likes to execute by breaking his victim's necks. I did not like it at all. If not for the EFX and Anne Hathaway as a heroic smokin'-hot Catwoman. Major Spoiler: She kills "Bane" in a hail of gunfire. She has no ethical "no kill code" to adhere to. Right up there with the Star Wars prequel wherein Darth Vader kills all the young Jedi knights. Nightmarish and disturbing. Mass murder, knives, bombs, and guns everywhere.