Arrrgh the dreaded curse of the third instalment fails again

Rating: 5/10 (14 December 2012)

It's been six months since I saw this movie and consequently pushed it to the far back reaches of my mind, along with the memory of Prometheus and Indian Jones and that awful George Lucas Skull film Batman The Dark Knight Rises is not as bad as those abominations thankfully, but like all trilogy's it fails to live up to its previous (brilliant) counterparts.
First of all my star-rating:
1 for good action and scenery 1 for the fight scenes 1 for the beginning of the movie – I particular like the realism that batman is not invincible (the main difference between this series of Batman films and previous comic born nonsense) 1 for Bale's acting skills 1 for Sir Michael Caine
Now five very good reasons it doesn't deserve the remaining 5 stars
This movie is painstakingly predictable! Right through to the woman at the end turning out to be the (and a rather unconvincing) bad guy!
Second, Robin! Please.Did we have to plug Batman 4 by including Robinthis guy is nothing but a moaning wimp who needs to get a life of his own rather than walk in Batman's shadow. Oh and what training has he had to replace Batman's martial arts skills?..exactlynone!
Third, Catwoman was awful. Don't get me wrong she has an attractive tone of voice and fantastic to look at but her ambitions are all over the place and seems really DUMB actually.
Bane- That dude from Warrior should never have been cast as Bane in this movie. The film and fans expected far too much from him and he failed. I can't even remember his name, but surely his natural voice was better than the one they dubbed over him with!
Five, the whole prison in the desert plot was terrible.....utter utter utter terrible. Why? Why a desert prison, where was it? More importantly why on earth did you need to climb/ jump a pile of steps to get out and have a bunch of guys in rags shouting some unheard tongue whilst you do it? Makes no sense what so ever, please remove from the directors cut!
Finally, I think this movie would have ended stronger if Batman had died. Like every good boxer there is a time to quit and this was Batman's time, quit while your ahead and in the hero game nothing is sweeter than going down in flames.....just a shame they didn't have the balls to give him a hero's death.