Documentary on Batman with Gary Oldman and friends: think "The Wrestler" meets "Chronicles of Riddick".

Rating: 6/10 (15 November 2012)

If you read a comment like mine, you might want to know what the person honestly thinks, and not what they're paid to say. The movie is hyped as the final closing chapter of the series, but even as I had watched the trailers I wasn't convinced about what I was seeing. Now I know this movie is clearly sub par. It has redeeming features, like being unwillingly campy and funny... If you've watched Star Trek Nemesis, or something like Chronicles of Riddick, things will ring a bell.
Mind you it's not that the story is not "interesting" or that the actors are no good - they're excellent. Maybe it's a first world "feel good" movie for insecure people who are afraid of those liberal hipsters... don't you worry truck drivers and city employees will never take over world thanks to some spandex wearing Batman, with his cute girlfriend. Your daughter will see the light, follow your advice and find a job. And what about our villain born in the mines of Remus? Well, there's a twist but it's real lame and finally our punk with a mask who terrorizes the city is a useless nobody. Plus why go through all of that if you're not going to have the city blown to bits in the end. What's with the "fallen hero" cliché... Skyfall and this, both choosing to go the emo way. He has to train and practice, loses his butler. Can't we have colorful, original and fun action and put to rest the grim abandoned villains and old stories etc.
Finally, as you will see this often feels like a walk down memory lane, with tiny flashbacks, and the actors often feel like they're walking in some museum and presenting the Batman legend to you. Plus I found the fighting sequences a step back from the past two movies...
Trust me, you better wait for this to come out on VHS, despite the score and what the critics say. 6/10