Disappointing movie

Rating: 3/10 (23 July 2012)

After all the realism and psycho thriller of Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, this film disappointed me.
A huge first half of the movie was slow, which it needed to be to explain the story, but the script was poor often resorting to lines just for explaining stuff that were already obvious. And despite those over-explanations and predictabilities, there are places that actually lost me, and I usually follow film's trickiest plots.
When the action does arrive into an epic batman vs bane fight, it hadn't built me towards it at all. Then there's the predictable and predictably pointless "dark knight rises" in a hole section. There's a lot of action at least, and a lot of terrorism and economics aspects which add some reality compared to the older movies. The story was still predictable and uninvolving in my opinion.
Whereas the other 2 movies pulled away so amazingly away from the camp comic core characters, this one keeps trying to tie into those with camply done catwoman and references to robin. The robin actor is good though.
The one thing that annoyed me the most really was the film not living up to the title. When batman is down a hole with a broken back there's nothing particularly epic, evoking or important about his "rise" for me. I think they just named it The Dark Knight Rises to keep the ties to the excellent previous film strong. But everyone knew it was following the last 2 great movies. Surely there is a better title option to describe what this film's focus is...