The third film and the third best of the trilogy

Rating: 9/10 (18 July 2012)

This is a rollicking good action flick. Its production value is sky high. The acting and cast is fantastic. But, The Dark Knight it ain't. The ante just kept growing in TDK, like Matthew Reilly's Ice Station.
Ledgers Joker is mind blowing. Whereas Hardy's Bane is nasty, but that's it. I honestly feel it didn't have the same focus on character as either if the first two films. And in my opinion, Nolan drowned us in these wonderful developing characters in BB and TDK, but only presented thumbnails in the final installment. With the singular exception of GLJ. Leavitt-Jones was the only actor given a rounded enjoyable arc.
I'm still giving this film 9/10 as it is sensational. It's epic and gratifying. The opening scene will have you thinking 'Bond could learn from this'. But it's not the masterwork TDK was. IMHO.