Great but it's not quite The Dark Knight.

Rating: 9/10 (21 July 2012)

So The Dark Knight Rises. It's a really awesome movie. It looks amazing, some of the set pieces are just stunning. It picks up on pretty much every previous unfinished plot arc and wraps it up rather nicely. A beautiful end to a beautiful saga.
The acting from Tom Hardy (Bane) and Christian Bale (Batman/Bruce Wayne) was brilliant, and the supporting males (Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman and Michael Cane) was extremely real and as always very touching. The true conscious of Batman. Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle was superb, half very menacing and half very delicate.
The unfortunate truth is that overall, something was lacking. I came out of the film still able to remember the trailers from before it, and not constantly thinking "OMG THAT WAS AMAZING" in the same way that I did with The Dark Knight. It's a fitting end, but I wouldn't say it's up there with The Dark Knight in terms of perfect film making. The script (although dialogue took a secondary line in this film) was good, but felt lost in some places and the pacing didn't flow as perfectly as it could have done from one scene to the end.
Hans Zimmer's score is wonderfully epic, creepy and scary; and there are moments where it has your heart racing. But there are other moments where the man on the mixing desk should have turned it down just a bit so I could have a small hope in hell of hearing what little dialogue the movie did have.
Everyone who is a fan of the other two in the trilogy should see this film as it ends it all so perfectly you do leave content. But go in expecting Batman Begins and you'll come out extremely impressed; if you go in expecting The Dark Knight you might come out feeling like something was missing.
I gave the Dark Knight a 10/10, and Batman Begins an 8/10. So this one fits rather perfectly at 9/10.