Pretentious film making makes Batman Rise Symbolically - What were they thinking!

Rating: 1/10 (19 April 2013)

Just remember the thrill you had at the ending of The Dark Knight, the brilliant ending setting up amazing possibilities for a Third film. Well this film will certainly tarnish your memories of Nolan's previous Batman films.
This film just completely ignores the end of TDK (apart from the Dent Act) going for a run of the mill, chuck everything bar the kitchen sink at it with some pretentious symbolism about rising and Batman (Who does Nolan think Batman is The artist formally known as Prince?) - This film seems like is was made by an EMO 1st year philosophy student who decided to turn Batman into a right wing para- military soldier. This would certainly be Ayn Rand's favorite film.
Problems with the film include
a) Too many Inception cast, not fitting to their role b) Joseph Gordon Levett - Smug, irritating c) The Pit - really what a ridiculous idea d) Numerous plot holes e) It is over long and boring f) It does not thematically follow on from The Dark Knight g) The score drowns out the dialogue h) which is actually quite a relief because most of the dialogue is mumbling about 'Gotham's Reckoning' i) Where the hell is Batman he is in it for 25 Min's max j) what is best back doctor in the world doing in that pit? k) That ending - just ridiculous, not in keeping with the 75 years of Batman - he would not leave Gotham to run off with Selina Kyle completely out of character l) Miranda Tate - wasted character, terrible acting m) the ticking bomb plot, could Nolan not come up with a more original idea? n) Catwoman.. No real need for her character apart from marketing and to run of with Bruce Wayne o)The Cop vs Mercenary battle - just terrible p) The cops being held underground for months q) Gary Oldman and Morgan Freeman are coasting through this film r) Where is the population of Gotham? s) Apart from the irritating orphans and the kid eating an apple - cringe worthy t) Batman/Bruce Wayne would not skulk around his mansion for 8 years- he would be fighting crime and I don'd buy the Harvey Dent Act meant that it cleared the streets of all crime u) Over convoluted plot and back story of Miranda Tate/Bane v) Bane's demise w) It should have been a series of films rather than a Trilogy, there was no need to try and wrap up the Batman story (although they left is so opened ended it could be argued that it was a pointless film anyway and hopefully it could be ignored i.e. Finish of JGL in the next film straight away and bring back Bruce Wayne) X)Tom Hardy - He really is just a supporting actor he can't carry a film
The list goes on I could do an A-Z twice. It is such a missed opportunity after the brilliance of the first two films. I know there are a lot of people out there saying it is a masterpiece it is not! Just because it was made by Nolan does not make it a good film (remember John Boorman an excellent director made The Exorcist 2 - an equivalent bad film as TDKR)
This film is in the Highlander 2, Jaws 4, Phantom Menace, Prometheus category of worst sequels of all time. There were so many other stories they hould have done all of which would have been better than this
A lot more attention to detail was needed by the film makers... I suspect Nolan took the money in order to make Inception and turned out this turkey for Warner Bros as part of the deal. Shame, should have been one of the best films of all time.Nolan has lost all the credibility built over his career to date with this film.
Re-Boot the series now and get Batman back to doing what he does best, being a detective, avenging the actions of criminals and entertaining us the audience.