The end of Nolan

Rating: 1/10 (30 July 2012)

I had such high hopes to be entertain when entering the theatre to watch this movie. But half way through, I wished I left my brains at the door.
The Dark Knight was such a good film that it set the bar very high for others. Alas, Nolan himself was not able to reach the same high for TDKR. In fact, it seems that he care not at all with the latest Batman installment.
Without giving too many details away, Batman has been in hiding for like 8 years and decided the world doesn't need Batman. Gotham is in peace- time and everyone still believes that Batman killed Harvey.
Bane has been building his army to blow up Gotham and to perhaps also kill Batman. Batman has to stop him
The plot holes were very glaring in TDKR. It was never clearly explained why Bruce decided to put on the costume after resisting it for the last 8 years. He was in deep mourning after the death of Rachel and also Harvey which we're reminded less than 10 mins into the movie. But upon hearing Gordon was in hospital and was attacked by some goons, Bruce decided the mourning period was over . Just like that, Batman returns
Then we have Seline who is supposed to be this poor woman who can't find a decent job but having to resort to stealing to make a living. No clear explanation to her motive except that she clearly wants out and the only way to do this is to get rid of her criminal records from the authorities. The issue with Seline is this. Here you have someone who easily broke into hard to break safe and jumping from tall building landing safely and all. But never once she thought of clearing her criminal records herself but she needs someone working in Bruce office to do it for her. If that was what Nolan wanted us to believed, then clearly Nolan has underestimated our intelligence
Clark, a young police officer who was raised from the orphanage and is street wise. Little is known about him except that he knew it all along who Batman was. Even Gordon who has worked with Batman for many many years and attended all the social events with Bruce never once could figured out who was the real Batman. But Clark, he saw Bruce one time with 2 ladies at the orphanage and had a ta-dah' moment. Clearly Nolan is hoping we too could be fooled
There are like 100 more weak plot holes that I can share here but it will take me more than a day and another 10000 words to write it up.
Clearly Nolan has lost it with TDKR. It should not have been that surprising since we saw it coming with Inception. TDKR, just like Inception, felt very rushed and the editing was choppy at best. There was very little character development, ala style over substance. Is this what Nolan is aiming for? Weak plot once again is evident in TDKR just like in Inception.
What was once a promising director of our generation is fast becoming a joke. If Nolan thinks he can get away with such stupidity he kept throwing at us, then he better think again. A certain director that was also once the toast of the town is now the joke of the industry (hint: Senses of the 6th)
Here's hoping he will learned from his mistake and tone down on the style but more on the substance. Movies such as Momento & Imsomnia made us noticed him and his talent. But The Dark Knight Returns clearly is telling us his ego is growing a lot faster than his talent. What a pity. He could have been something much more..