Tired formula needs a mercy killing

Rating: 4/10 (5 July 2013)

Strip away the visuals and the cinematography, and this movie screams self-parody. There's nothing new to say in this franchise that hasn't been beaten over your head in previous movies. It's no Batman Begins or the Dark Knight, which were solid movies. But this time the franchise jumped the shark.
The formula broke under the weight of its own hyperbole. So tired and overwrought, I completely lost interest. Self-important high drama, big bad city terrorism, evil trying to outdo itself with every sequel, fabricated family drama we've seen many flavors of before. Even the surprises were no longer surprises.
I felt nothing watching this flick. Well, with the exception that I just wanted everybody to die in a fiery ball of neutron bomb death to end the franchise as a mercy killing.
Please make it stop, Nolan.