#Not a Hiptser

Rating: 4/10 (14 January 2014)

I should say that I did not give this movie a relatively low score because I was "trying to be different" or whatnot, in fact most of the time I agree, and am glad that I agree (makes me feel more sane/normal) with the rest of the population. I love the dark knight series, Nolan movies, and I like to think that I generally have good taste in movies...
now, it is also possible that my expectations where simply so high that they were unattainable; part of me expected a similar jump in quality like the one from "batman begins" to "the dark knight," and this no doubt also contributed my disappointment to the end of the trilogy. But let's get on with the first main problem.
I rather liked the non-conventional ending message of "The Dark Knight"- where most movies tell us that saying the truth is the most important thing no matter what, but tdk recognized that there are situations in which "the truth isn't good enough" and that a people sometimes deserved better. A great way to end a film.
And then the dark knight rises comes along and almost seems takes it all back by saying, "Oh no, we made mistake, you need to always tell the truth, and never lie" making the film appear much more conventional and in a way diminishing the ending of tdk.
This point is more personal opinion, but I think the joker was the best villain in the trilogy, Bane didn't have any flaws (aside from his voice), but I personally felt the jokers chaotic and unpredictable character (and actions) made him a more memorable villain.
I know this has probably already been mentioned, but some of the (main) plot point elements were just a little too unrealistic (in the realm of super hero movies) for my taste, the whole sending of the ENTIRE police force down the tunnels to find bane was simply not logical, any militia would instead block the exits, set up guards and possibly send in a small scout team.
The part were bane defeated batman for the first time was pretty cool, it was during batman's "recovery" where I had a problem. Normally the hero has to learn something, or learn to do something, that is then used in order to have a different outcome in the second confrontation. Here the "thing" batman had to do was (imo) very underwhelming
Basically all batman had had to do was jump a ledge. When he made the jump I couldn't hep but think "well that was fast, are you sure you're ready to take on Bane again? Will this newfangled jumping ability really help you take down a enemy twice your size?"
Another personal opinion, but I feel that the whole "nuke" thing has already been overdone. The ending of tdk was very good, particularly the part in which each boat had the other boats detonator, or the part where Harvey Dent Turned- the ending of tdkr on the other hand, had no such moment (at least not for me). In fact several scenes gave me a negative emotion
1. The charging scene. This scene really broke my immersion with the film because it was just so unrealistic; no modern police force that uses firearms is going CHARGE in another similarly armed force, it just doesn't work anymore since weapons no longer take more than a minute to reload. This scene also bothered me because I felt that the more realistic alternative would've actually worked better (normally would consider excusing such a thing if it helped with the films emotional impact).
Having the cops take positions over any available cover and slowly struggling (with sacrifices) to take more ground, doesn't sound too bad, or hard to do.
2. Banes Defeat. As you can probably guess by now, I didn't like how Batman beat Bane in a fistfight. This is not supposed to happen. Batman is simply not stronger than bane, what batman IS, is that he is smarter than bane, an ending where batman outsmarted or/and used his gadgets to defeat bane would have been much preferred.
in the end Tdkr was not a terrible film, it had some good moments (the intro scene with the planes was terrific) but I certainly don't think its one of the best films of all times.