I didn't think it was possible to make a Batman film so incredibly boring!

Rating: 3/10 (7 December 2012)

This film is just an example of when directors fall in love with their own hype. Nolan has made some great films, The Prestige, Inception, Batman Begins. This is not one of them!
He got off to a good start to the trilogy with Begins, Dark Knight was good when it came out but when I watched it earlier this year it hasn't stood the test of time for me personally.
Then comes this one, Nolan had the potential to make something compelling and adrenaline pumping. He didn't. This was little better than 2.5 hours of watching paint dry.
1. The action sequences were terrible, I just could not get into the fight scenes as they were so poorly choreographed. On a couple of occasions I saw criminals just waiting to be beaten up, including one scene where you see one guy with his gun trained on Batman who is busy beating someone else up however instead of pulling the trigger he thinks "hmmm, maybe I should just wait for him to finish with that guy and then let him knock my teeth out?".
2. Anyone that thought Bane was menacing scares too easily. The voice while supposedly based on a gypsy bare knuckle fighter was laughable. It sounded like a really bad Darth Vader impression by David Cameron (current UK Prime Minister). Also his physical stature was not big enough, Bane is supposed to be a man mountain, Tom Hardy is not.
3. The Batman voice, how does sounding like you smoke 200 cigarettes a day and could pass out from breathlessness any moment meant to strike fear into the hearts of criminals?
4. Joseph Gordon-Levitt becoming Batman - No No No No No, just No!
5. The story is basically the same as Avengers, but the Avengers was more entertaining. As a life-long Batman/Superman/DC fan those words taste like poison but could not be more true.
6. The stock market scene was not needed, if you are going to isolate a city from the rest of the country and take it over, money then becomes useless anyway. I thought Nolan banged on about how much of a "tactical genius" Bane was supposed to be in the lead up to this films release, evidently Nolan doesn't understand what good tactics are.
7. When the police were walking down the street with hardly a weapon between them towards a mass of criminals armed to the teeth I heard "Fish in a barrel, Fish in a barrel" being chanted in my head. Joss Whedon 1 - Christopher Nolan 0.
All in all I found this film to be far too preachy and pretentious. I don't understand how this film has such a high score on IMDb, maybe it has something to do with the death threats people sent to the reviewers that rated it negatively in the first place and no one had the balls to give it the review it deserved.
If you are a weak willed, easily led by what people say you are supposed to like Nolan fan-boy you will love this film, if you are a true Batman fan you will hate this with a burning passion. If you want to watch an entertaining Superhero film that was made this year, watch Avengers.