That's two hours I'll never get back

Rating: 2/10 (18 February 2013)

I thought I was alone in finding this film almost impossible to follow (not because of an intricate plot) and almost as impossible to understand the actual words. So, I came on IMDb and read some of the reviews. I'm astounded it has 8.6 out of 10!!!! I've never left a review on here before, but I've just sat through a film that is over 2.5 hours long and I'll never claw that time back! I know I know, writing a review means MORE time spent. But honestly, what a load of nonsense.
I don't know where to begin with the very jumpy story line (what the hey were we shown the scene in the aircraft with a guy having his blood taken out of him for?!! I still have NO idea what that huge opening scene was all about?), the mad time jumps, the inexplainable lines from some of the key actors - why would Miranda want to honor the father she wanted dead? Why would an army of police, when finally escaped from the tunnels - go in for the attack almost entirely weaponless?!!!
You hardly see Batman. I mean REALLY hardly see him. The way some of the film is shot is so poor, the fight scenes between everyone else in the world (even CatWOMAN, who is a girl!!) are intense and pack a punch - but the ones between Blane and Batman look utterly ludicrous, like they are hitting mannequins!
I'm all for immersing myself in a film and getting carried away with the action, but I couldn't do that with this, it made no sense 80% of the time. Literally no sense. The scene near the end where a certain person stabs a certain superhero (or at least I thought he was), had me utterly confused as to why she had it in for Batman, were we shown any reasons why that might be?!!
Confused, annoyed and not into Batman anymore. I only wanted to watch it to see Wollaton Hall, wished I'd stopped at the first sighting.
I still don't get the plane scene?! If I didn't care about wasting my life - I'd make myself watch it all over again, to see if it made more sense.....