Cut it at the smile Goddammit!

Rating: 1/10 (21 July 2012)

Probably my favourite of the series (so far) but partly due to the huge length, it definitely gets a bit slow and dull somewhere around the middle, there is one scene I remember in particular in which Batman and Bane fight in the sewers and repeatedly punch each other in the face for about five minutes with no effect. The shouting match between the two at one point is also accidentally hilarious with the irritating put-on voices. They obviously left it open for a Robin sequel with Gordon-Levitt which my friend somehow predicted halfway through the movie and which I personally wouldn't mind at all. However, the reason I actually wrote this review was to comment on the ending. When Fox found out the auto-pilot was fixed I automatically assumed that Batman had committed suicide because he was so fcking depressed. To me this would have been fine (a fourth batman film is less appealing to me than a Robin one) but then it cut to the restaurant with Alfred. In my opinion a perfect ending would have been at the exact moment he smiled, no need to turn around, just leave it with a bit less cheese and a bit more suspense. Despite this largely negative review I did think it was a great film.