The Absent Knight Fails

Rating: 3/10 (8 August 2012)

The Dark Knight Rises almost completely fails. There are some good things about it and then there are some absolutely terrible things about it.
The Good: I was not aware that this movie was coming out until about 3 days before I saw it. You might wonder: Does this guy live in a hole? No...I just don't pay attention to this type of thing in my daily life. So when I watched the movie I was pleasantly surprised to see some new faces in the series. Particularly Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Burn Gorman, even if his part was very small. I wasn't too happy about Anne Hathaway as Catwoman, but she pulled it off and was actually quite good in the roll.
Another thing that was nice was how everything from the previous two was tied together in this flick.
That is the extent of the good.
The Bad: Batman. He isn't really in this movie and when he is, he's a wuss.
The dialog. I couldn't stop laughing. I wasn't sure if this movie was trying to be funny or take itself way too seriously.
Bane...The guy's voice was so incredibly bassy I couldn't understand a word he was saying. On top of that, his jaw never moved when speaking, driving me absolutely insane!
I'm not sure I understand why anybody would take over a city with the intentions of letting it tearing itself apart, only to get rid of the police force. OK, then the criminals create a court system? REALLY??
So every single cop in the city, aside from 2 or 3, is stupid enough to go into a sewer system and get trapped there for 3 months. None of which has any problem dealing with the fact that they are trapped...for 3 months underground.
All this while Batman is thrown into a pit that he can't escape from because of a broken back until it is healed by a single fist blow while he watches his home city rip at the seams. This drives him to escape, somehow swim across the world and get back into Gotham, which, by the way, has been completely sealed off from the rest of humanity.
And then there is the ending with the alien spaceship and the nuclear bomb. I couldn't stop laughing.
There are many other reasons why I hated this movie...these are just a few. I've given it a 3 and not a 1 only because I was surprised to see a couple actors that I wasn't aware would be in the film. I am not convinced by any means at all that this was a good movie. Laughable, as a Batman flick, at best.
Just my opinion.