Boring plot, bad villains, Dark Knight sinks to new low

Rating: 6/10 (3 October 2012)

Sure this is a visually bombastic movie and will leave you hearing impaired for several hours after listening to the banging drums to spur on boring sequences. But the movie flops with a brutish character and McGuffin that was used in the 1983 Octopussy. You know the OMG nuclear bomb threat. Thankfully Roger Moore stopped that bad Russian guy. Bain is a bad guy right out of Road Warrior, without the butt cheeks showing. Send Bain back to Road Warrior where he belongs.
Nolan drops the ball and goes for pure visuals not story telling. Did anyone understand that murky dialog through that "Lecter Mask". Perhaps Nolan was making a spoof on Batman, or it seemed so. But plot is not important when you plan on sales to Asia not America.
And guy arming the Nuclear Bomb, was....drum roll, a Russian. Even tho in real life the Iranians are planning a nuke. Why are they never the bad guys. Oh, of course Nolan is worried about being PC, where Russians and Germans are typically stereotyped as the villains. He needs to movie the Batman ethos 50 years ahead to today. He is afraid like Hollywood to name extremist "religious" radicals and Iran as the bad guys. Go with tried and true Germans (who are saving Europe financially) or Russians (dealing with US bases surrounding them). Wait tho, did Bain force the Russian to put his hand there? Can't remember.
The only visual thing I remember is the coat flapping in the wind as he rides that all too cool motorcycle....and and..oh how hot Catwoman is in her little black tight dress. That is the "take home" visual.
Did everyone catch all the 911 allusions. They could have called this movie 911 Redeux. 3,000 police trapped in a tunnel, debris everywhere, etc. Oh, and the trite reference to Katrina on the bridge with the cops and kids. All to obvious a Rip off riff.
There was way too much screen time wasted on Batman recovering from the jail cell and is right out of Clint Eastwood, Fist Full of Dollars where he is beaten and has to recover to shoot the bad guys.
The Dark Knight Rises is nothing more than a re hash and copy of several films already out there...but you will enjoy getting away from the thumping sound track pounding..pounding to get your blood going, when you leave the movie.
Rehashing tired old borrowed plots does not make a modern movie. Nolan should have stayed with memory issues not go into Spielberg territory and big story telling. Maybe he should go to HBO where he can do great stuff like Momento and Insomnia, really great small films.
As the cop says at an accident, "Keep moving folks nothing to see here".