Oh, so disappointing

Rating: 3/10 (6 September 2012)

What happened? I really loved Nolans second Batman and was more than willing to embrace this one as well. But then I sat in the cinema and waited for it to become interesting...
I guess my main problem with the movie is the following: I did not understand (sometimes literally) the bad guys plan. Did they want to prove a point by giving the power to the people or blow up the city? Or both? Blowing up the city would have been easy. They had the bomb, they had the trigger, so why wait? What was the point? And why didn't they leave and blow up the bomb from a save distance? Fulfilling "father's destiny" includes dieing with the city?
The movie wanted too much and did not have time to deliver. The Batman-Alfred-conflict did not work for me (suddenly Alfred leaves, after everything that has happened before?), the love-stories were simply confusing (First he likes the one who turns out to be evil and then suddenly he likes the other one...), the big emotional journey into the pit, pulling himself out "of his death-wish" was very foreseeable.
Why, oh why...?