Ugh!

Rating: 6/10 (26 July 2012)

The Dark Knight Rises is a mishmash of at least three different Batman Comic story-arc's combined haphazardly into an incoherent mess.
The whole thing reeked of poor storytelling, an unclear vision, an overly bloated story and having to apiece raft of characters.
The photographic direction is interesting in places but all together doesn't have asense of its self or any consistency.
Nolan also gives the audience almost no credit to figure out anything for themselves, feeling the need to film an explanation for every question that is posed and thus very much dumbing the movie down.
It's not the worst movie ever, it has plenty of redeeming features. It just certainly doesn't even come close to matching the heights of Inception, Memento, The Prestige or Batman Begins.