Could have been better

Rating: 7/10 (10 October 2012)

I was a big fan of the movie Batman begins. Christopher Nolan entered my all time favorite directors list. He is a gifted man with an excellent vision and completely different style of filmmaking. With movies like Memento, inception and prestige, he indeed succeeded in creating more variety and complex themes look good on screen. By sticking completely with the Batman series he is not having the opportunity to something else. So I am glad that the series ended. The Dark knight rises was a very promising film and much awaited movie. I was excited to see new additions like Anne Hathaway, Marion Cottilard, Tom Hardy and Joseph Levitt Gordon.
But the movie was a great disappointment especially because the plot had too many unnecessary holes and turns. Rachel Dawes's death in Dark knight itself was a the movie's major drawback. She was an excellent character. Major one was Bruce Wayne's hiding. How can a guy lose his complete faith and be in the hiding while the city suffers? Okay he wanted a hero without a mask to rule the Gotham city. Why did he have to hide as Bruce Wayne? That was kind of cowardly act from his part. I also didn't like the part where Alfred Left. The man who nurtured him since the day he was born.
Yet the direction made the movie a lot better than it is. All the actors did very job in presenting their respective characters, especially Anne Hathaway, Joseph Levitt Gordon and Gary Oldman. Movie could have been made a lot better with a little more polishing. The fight scenes were terrible. Visual and sound effects were okay. Hans Zimmer did a good job in the soundtrack. The movie is worth a onetime watch, if you are die-hard fan of the franchise. 7/10