Very Enjoyable and Thrilling to watch! In other respects, however, it is less satisfactory.

Rating: 9/10 (9 September 2012)

I loved loved "The Dark Knight", and is the best movie i've ever seen. I was waiting for the last movie of the trilogy for what seemed like eons. When finally I got to watch "The Dark Knight Rises" and entered the theater with mixed emotions, my hopes were dashed when i saw Bruce Wayne limping like an old man, Commissioner Gordon getting shot and hospitalized, Bruce Wayne going bankrupt and the emotional farewell between Alfred and Bruce Wayne. Bane didn't interest me at all.He was just having too much fun crushing throats of people who didn't cooperate with him.I would have been dejected if it hadn't been for John Blake a young police officer and Selina Kyle the catburglar.Both of them were appealing and brought about much amusement.Things get interesting with the bankrupt Bruce Wayne giving Miranda Tate control over Wayne enterprises and a bit of action from both batman and catwoman. Catwoman was cool until she sold Batman to Bane where Bane sent him to a special prison, so he could continue in his mission to destroy Gotham.Escape looked highly impossible for Bruce Wayne, but that doesn't stop him from training his body to come and fight the baddies.Bane has trapped Gotham's entire police force underground and threatens to bombard the city if anyone tries to leave it.Blake gets Gordon out of the hospital but they couldn't do much and it was sad to see them helpless most of the time.I was simply bored, waiting for the Batman to come into action and he didn't disappoint.The rising of the Dark knight was spectacular and the sequence of events that followed it were mind-blowing. The police forces are freed(courtesy of the catwoman-yeah she has a change of heart) and the showdown between them and Bane's followers was extremely well portrayed which led to a giant fistfight.Batman confronts Bane where they box each other crazy, only to find out that Bane isn't the real mastermind behind all this chaos and getting stabbed by Tate who reveals that she Talia is the daughter of Ras al Ghul and hurries away to complete her father's mission(detonate the nuclear weapon) leaving him to Bane's mercy.By now Batman is broken physically as well as emotionally but catwoman comes to his rescue and batman saves gotham city from blowing into pieces which left everyone to presume that he had sacrificed himself in the process. The plot looked so rushed up in the second half due to connectivity between first half and the previous movies. "The Dark Knight Rises" unlike its predecessor didn't exceed my expectations but it didn't disappoint me either.
What i liked about the movie. 1. John Blake- Just his presence was enough to light up a scene. His dialogs were really good and amusing and i was hoping to see him at least once in action as the next batman. 2. Selina kyle/catwoman's performance was splendid. She is beautiful, witty and has a wicked sense of humor. 3. Batman and Catwoman-They set the screen on fire. Very thrilling to watch. 4.The Batpod- This is an improvised version of what we have seen in the previous movie. Even catwoman gets to ride it which makes it more amazing.
What i didn't like. 1. Bane-I found him really boring. Half the time i wasn't able to comprehend what he was saying in-spite of his powerful voice and its really uninteresting to watch him without his expressions. 2. Gordon confined to the hospital most of the time-Sure there was Blake around but that was no reason for Gordon to lie and watch the terror unfold from a hospital's T.V screen. It wasn't fair that we got to see him inaction just for the last part. 3. The popping up of the real villain in the end- I certainly didn't see that coming. I guess I was too busy enjoying the movie.Finding out that Bane was an accomplice of Talia al ghul, was too much to digest.It would have made more sense if it were vice versa. 4. The end of Bruce Wayne- Seriously why? Batman always revolved around Bruce Wayne. I was bummed out to see them winding up his story like that.