Not a Batman movie

Rating: Null/10 (24 July 2012)

WTF? This is a James Bond movie, or maybe Die Hard part 5, but a Batman movie? Nah! In all reality, though cinematically The Dark Knight Rises looks good enough, content-wise it's not really that good. The first hour, though interesting enough for a comic book fan, could simply bore most movie goers, and the following action is patchy at best. Batman barely appears and when he does, he's usually getting his ass kicked. Lots of Bruce Wayne though- feh! One thing that my son and I found was that we really didn't care much about what happened to anyone in the movie. If the world of Gotham was completely destroyed we probably could have cared less. And speaking of Gotham– I have no issue with Christopher Nolan using Manhattan to represent the comic book city, but with all of the computer work in it, do you think they could have done something to make it less New York. The Brooklyn Bridge, and One World Trade Center among other landmarks are seen throughout. Kudos to previous movies where they at least attempted to give Gotham City its own identity. Let's talk characters, Christian Bale is his usual "whatever" self, Tom Hardy is equally uninteresting as Bane, and what's with the lame Sean Connery-like voice?? It's bad enough on its own but the actor appears to be having troubles maintaining the impersonation. It goes in and out constantly. The only shining performance is Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle/Catwoman, well I guess it's Catwoman as her name is never said. She's witty and entertaining. The rest you can trash. on a scale of 1-10 it's a solid 3.5. Bad.