Poor, poor, Mr Nolan

Rating: 5/10 (25 July 2012)

I went into the cinema with heightened expectations. I'd enjoyed the previous two Nolan efforts and was impressed with the Knight rises trailer. Here we go, I thought, more of the same but even better. How wrong I was. First hour - lots of talking, nothing wrong with that - setting the scene - sit tight, wait for the fun to start. Little things started to niggle. The fight scenes seemed artificial - badly choreographed. Nolan seemed to want to bring Batman out into the daylight and turn him into a brawler with the baddies running up one at a time to be hit.
I thought Bane was an excellent Baddie, ruthless, strong, intelligent. The Plot was fine - the other characters sufficient - the devil for me was in the detail.
Gotham was in lock-down for how long? The cops were trapped underground for - months was it? Weeks anyway. They came out of there hole looking shiny and new. Blake's partner emerges with his shaven head perfectly razor-ed - Did anyone else notice the hair? Everybody had a perfect haircut the entire length length of the movie.
I think the biggest disappointment for me was the lack of tension. Batman was going to survive, Catwoman was going to save Batman, the bomb was going to be made safe - Bruce Wayne would see another film made etc. etc. With comic book film franchises I suppose this inevitable but the way Nolan went about it was arse numbingly tedious.
Nolan - go and stand in the corner with Lucas and Cameron - Damn it! Another £15 wasted.