Long & convoluted..

Rating: 7/10 (28 November 2015)

In the style of "The Dark Knight", "The Dark Knight Rises" is another hours- long epic... sitting at 2 hours and 45 minutes, the movie is a roller- coaster of action and complicated plot lines. Except unlike "The Dark Knight", "The Dark Knight Rises" is just missing something... or maybe it just has to much of everything.
There are so many characters with different back-stories to them - we are introduced to Bane, Miranda Tate, and Blake, the up and coming young police- man- turned detective, and of course, no Batman trilogy is complete without Catwoman aka Selina Kyle.
The Dark Knight was already long and convoluted, but least it made sense. The film centred around the Joker and his evil deeds, whereas the The Dark Knight Rises, I felt that there was too much going on, at times it got confusing and exploring almost every character's psychological issues made the film almost too dark. There are hardly any moments of comic relief, the film is all serious from start to finish and to be honest, it's exhausting to watch.
It's definitely a fitting end to the Dark Knight trilogy, don't get me wrong, but I just feel that there was too much packed into 2 hours and 45 minutes. The acting was superb for the most part, and the story was generally good, although one gripe I had was that the chemistry between Catwoman and Batman was just not working for me. I give it a good verdict overall, but the second instalment in the trilogy spoke to me a lot more than this film did.