The Best of the Worst

Rating: 6/10 (1 October 2012)

Batman: The Dark Night Rises
The most recent and final movie in the Batman trilogy opens with a bang, literally. The final movie uses pretty but pointless CGI and explosions to draw attention from the movie's bland storyline. The new villain, Bane (Tom Hardy), seems to have been brought in to bludgeon and brutalize the hero. Hollywood feeds its computer generated stereotype with this new release.
Opening the movie, Bane robs a mid-flight private jet. The scene includes several machine guns, an explosion and a highly impossible parachute stunt from the remaining half of a mid-flight jet. This is just the first of many pointless action and explosion scenes that are meant to take away from the disappointingly bad acting and storyline.
Half of the newest Batman movie is spent making the audience feel bored out of their minds with Bruce Wayne sitting around his multi-billion dollar villa as a crippled old hermit. I, for one, went out to see the dark knight rises to honor the very successful trilogy, not sit in my seat wondering why the movie wasted the last hour and a half of my life. The lack of Batman in the first chunk of the movie made me question whether I was in the right theater because I was sure that by the halfway point in the movie I would have seen the famous hero in black tights. Fortunately when Batman makes his debut it is quite worthwhile.
Besides the plot of the movie being action-packed and pointless, I also found it very unrealistic. With knowledge from the previous movies and plain common sense anyone is able to come to the realization that Gotham city is as big as New York City if not bigger. In a modern day United States with threats from terrorist organizations around the world I find it very unlikely that we would let the big apple come under siege and be captured altogether. The United States, a military super power who won two world wars, has been like the big brother to the world for ages yet 300 at most armed goons and a not-so-level headed king pin are able to capture one of the main cities in our nation. Excuse me if that sounds a little far-fetched.
If you are one of those movie goers who enjoys a movie riddled with bad lines and special affects then by all means, go see Batman: The Dark Knight Rises. If you are a die-hard fan of the Batman trilogy and are looking for another one of Christopher Nolan's finest then don't waste your time with the newest movie.