"Impossible" !

Rating: Null/10 (17 December 2012)

When Bane sees the Batman burning sign on the wall he utters" "Impossible", that's pretty much sums up most of this last chapter to Batman trilogy that began so great in the last two films.
This last chapter was very very disappointing?. First lets look at the casting of "Anne Hathaway" as the so-called "Cat Woman"?. That was the biggest joke to me in the whole film. Anne Hathaway was trying so hard to play this street wise tough chick; almost over acting her scenes that just got worse. I am sorry to say she is not much to look at physically or in the face, with all the make up and sexy outfit; her over-acting with her fight scenes was just awful. I don't know how people get casted in a movie as are large as this, maybe its all about the right agent who can make the deals with people like director Nolan.
Nolan did something similar in the second Batman by casting "Maggie Gyllenhaal" as Rachel by replacing "Katie Holmes" due to her pregnancy, but again Maggie Gyllenhaal was a miscast, she did not have the gracefulness and poise of the character of "Rachel" who grew up like Bruce Wayne. Nolan casting "Maggie Gyllenhaal" as Rachel is as bad as casting "Anne Hathaway" as Cat Woman. My choice would have been "Olivia Wilde" who is visually stunning to look at, as a Cat Woman should be. Olivia Wilde has a also has done films like "Tron Legacy", where she is physically capable of a such a role.
The second casting errors were "Joseph Gordon-Levitt", who is working a lot these days, I just could not see him as "John Blake" and John Blake does not become "Robin" in the Batman story. There was also "Matthew Modine" who really just walked through this film, he was awful even playing dead at the end.
As far as the story, that's where it gets really bad and pot holes one after another. My first issue was why did we start 8 years into future, it's been four years since the last film, that is plenty of time for Batman to have gone missing.
There is a scene where Batman goes to the hospital to see his doctor and his doctor shows him X-rays in how how badly he is hurting all over, he has no Cartilage in his knees along other issues such as even liver. So here is you are given information that Batman is not well. yet two minutes he is jumping out the window to see his old friend Commissioner Gordon, who is the most consistent character in all 3 films.
So we have been informed that Bruce Wayne's injuries being Batman has finally caught up with him. Yet, when he has the fight scene with Bane, when Bane brakes his back and puts him the Pit of a prison. This is where the film really gets stupid; there is a time issue in this film from the time Batman has a broken back to the time he makes it back to Gotham. Again remember he is already in poor health with now a broken back, then his back heals very quick, then he tries to climb the pit and fails again with a bad back again, the he recovers so well to jump with a with out rope in a such a short time to make it back to Gotham. That is as Bane said best: IMPOSSIBLE.
Then there is the character of "Thalia" or Miranda, the daughter of Ra's Al Ghul. When Batman was beaten by Bane, she is still pretending to be Miranda; yet Bane has already taken over the city, she has no reason to pretend anymore, she has all she wants to destroy Gotham. Again, how long was Miranda/Thalia in custody while Batman healed?.It can not be 3 or 5 months considering the time the cops were trapped in the tunnel below, this is the biggest plot hole in the whole film.
When Batman got stabbed by Miranda and sitting there listening her while she has the knife in him?. This is not a reaction of Batman who beats 10 men at a time; so no matter how shocking it was to find out she is the daughter of his former enemy, was it so hard to push her off when she is talking to him, considering Bane is also down and helpless?.
There was several scenes and references to the "Auto Pilot" of the Bat plane that has none. Yet we see the plan blow up while it drops the Atomic bomb, so where ever Batman jumped off in less two minutes of the bomb going off while in mid air it has to be a fast jump to survive, given the radiation of radius of a atomic bomb, again as Bane would say: IMPOSSIBLE.
We are given this last sinister look of Batman while he looks at the sky as he explodes, we later see him in European Cafe across from Albert had mentioned. This is where I think the film really failed, why can't Batman die, why does he had to live?
I really liked the character of Bane, I wish there was more scenes with him and Thalia to show her attraction to this insane character. However, we spent too much time with characters like "Blake" and others like special ops caption Jone played by Daniel Sunjata, who got killed as soon he was on the screen, what was the purpose of these characters?
I really don't know what happened with Nolan and what he was thinking when he did this last fill of Batman series? . When you watch this it makes you wonder if this is the same director who made the last two films, its really was a failure and poor way to end a great trilogy.