A Dark Night Falls over the beautiful saga of the Batman!! An utter disgrace!! (This Review contains massive spoilers!!)

Rating: 1/10 (6 September 2012)

Sometime when the supreme madness of the success that followed post TDK had subsided, Chris Nolan and co, after initially resisting, finally relented and decided to add a final chapter to the Batman Franchise and so in a supreme madness of the hangovers that followed, the plot for THE DARK KNIGHT RISES was most probably hatched albeit in a supreme drunken stupor. I mean if you manage to keep the nostalgia of the DARK KNIGHT aside, you can see the flaws in the plot in abundance. You have to admit, the first of Chris Nolan's reincarnation of Batman was realistic yet had that comical madness in it, a subtle blend of fiction and reality, a true piece of art, Batman Begins was a huge success, and then what followed was only stuff of the legend. The Dark Knight blew me over by miles and then just as I was beginning to wonder whether there will be another movie to match the astonishing beauty of the Dark Knight and I realized with a heavy heart that as with every great civilization, after you've reached the peak and the zenith of it's grandeur, the only way forward is actually downhill. It's an historical fact and Nolan's brilliant mind is no exception. The Dark Knight Rises begins and ends in hurry. Hurried dialogues, with absolutely no logical connection or sequence between subsequent events. Bruce Wayne appears now to be in a bad shape reluctant to step forward and then a single message from Commissioner Gordon suddenly infuses in him renewed energy and he is back!! Bane? ah Bane! the hopeless romantic, is a confused lot. He doesn't know what he wants but imagines himself at one time that HE IS THE LEAGUE OF SHADOWS But alas!! Ra's Al Ghul has excommunicated the poor chap from his group!! But what will Bane do?? his ego's the size of a mountain!! he needs to assert himself and so orders his henchman (the unlucky chap) to remain behind in the airplane, to suffice as his calling card to the authorities. But the authorities had no time to discuss about the plane crash at any point subsequently in the movie,(the movie is so haphazard and fast paced, you hardly know what's going on!!) Talia Al ghul plays along as Bruce Wayne's friend and his one time bed warmer all along albeit under a nickname and ten minutes before the end of the movie, she suddenly reveals her true character, her true motive (out of the blue, with no warning!!) and then takes her leave as mysteriously, taking the steam off of Bane's hard work with her, and then poor Bane fades into the oblivion with only two major scuffles with the Batman throughout the movie!! Catwoman Selina Kyle has pretty much a minor role to play (as if any other character had anything substantial to do!!)hers is a well beaten track, that of a cat burglar and an eventual flame of the Batman. What a Shame!! Christopher Nolan has just exposed that his first two Batman flicks were a flash in the pan, (Inception may have been a huge success and a favourite but among idiots), the plot was missing in the Dark Knight Rises. THERE IS NO COHERENCE!! No two scenes flow into each other. It's a mess!! Sorry but for a die-hard Dark Knight fan like myself, this movie is a DISGRACE!! It's a same old plot with mediocrity written all over it. you will see haunting overtones of the Batman Begins, and nothing of the beautifully woven story of TDK or of the amazing performance by the Joker...Either Chris Nolan's gone crazy or this must be the cruelest joke Christopher Nolan & co have ever played on the sheepish public... Heath Ledger must be turning in his grave!!