Disappointing but not bad

Rating: 5/10 (28 July 2012)

I had huge expectations after the almost perfection of The Dark Knight. But what I saw in the theatre was much more like a Michael Bay movie with a slightly better story.
The plot is idiotic. How did a Bruce Wayne with no money and cellphone was able to come back to Gotham? Why did Bane, Miranda or their mercenaries decided to stay in Gotham while the bomb was about to explode? Why were the uniforms of imprisoned cops perfectly clean after they got out? Why none of them grow beard? Why did the crowd of police run into the mercenaries rather than shooting them? Why did Batman engage Bane in hand-to-hand combat rather than blowing him with the Bat? After all the things Selina has done why did she betray Bane? Why did government do absolutely nothing but only sending 4-5 special troops?(They could disable the bomb with an EMP bomb) Why are so many people below the pit and what is their fault to be there? How does Alfred know too much about criminals? How did Bruce left the explosion radius of the nuclear bomb in 4 seconds? Those are never explained in the movie.
There is no real acting in this movie. Only credit can go to Michael Caine and Anne Hathaway. He was beyond believable and great. Hathaway was also good. Marion Cotillard was awful. She totally ruined the climax. I hope she never acts again. Christian Bale is an amazing actor but he is not given good lines or scenes.
Editing is terrible. Movie literally jumps from one scene to another. There is no real connection.
Soundtrack is great as always, composed by Hans Zimmer. I especially loved the theme of Bane, the soundtrack with strong percussion.
Art directing, special effects and visual effects are stunning of course. You might think that some VFX scenes were unnecessary but director decides to shoot that, not VFX supervisor. And effect people have done their job well.
I respected Christopher Nolan, I still do. But with Dark Knight Rises I lost some of the respect I had for him. He killed the plot just to make references to some novels(Tale of Two Cities). The whole point of imprisoning 3000 cops in sewers was offensively stupid. No criminal would risk that kind of thing. The movie has nice action scenes but a terrible plot and awful acting. As I mentioned above, it's like a Michael Bay movie filmed after finishing the script.