Alas, Alfred

Rating: 7/10 (25 August 2012)

I will always love Batman, I even used him as the focal point of a thesis I wrote in my psychology class, however in all honesty, the only that made this film for me was Tom Hardy as Bane. Christian Bale as Batman has always been amazing,he has always perfectly nailed the psychological and emotional pitfalls that comes from being the "Dark Knight". My chief complaint, sadly, is with Alfred. Michael Cane is an amazing actor and I am not in anyway criticizing his acting, but the writers on this one dropped the ball big time. In Batman Begins and The Dark Knight Alfred has been supportive, encouraging, and helpful. In The Dark Knight Rises it seems like he is a completely different character with a completely different mindset. In Batman Begins he is happy and relieved when Bruce comes home and in the beginning he actually encourages Bruce to stay in Gotham since he has decided not to go back to Harvard, then in The Dark Knight Rises he goes into the spiel about how he had hoped, when Bruce left in Batman Begins, that Bruce would never return to Gotham. Then he flips from saying he wants Bruce to get back into the world to literally walking out on him when he does. In the first 2 films he understands and supports what Bruce is doing in creating Batman, in this one he seems to do nothing but criticize it. Ann Hathaway as Catwoman...I haven't made up my mind about. She has the right sauciness and seductive speech patterns but for me she just didn't measure up, Halle Barry in my opinion was the most amazing Catwoman since the original, but that's just me.