Not a serious movie, could be good if you turn your brain off

Rating: 4/10 (12 August 2012)

TDKR is not a bad movie if you paid the ticket to see cool vehicles, sexy cat woman on a motorbike, lots of punches being thrown and other no-brain content which you can easily find in any expensive summer blockbuster. It is a bad movie if you are looking for something more. A general problem with sequels is that directors must recycle everything and movies often spin out of their hands in strange directions. I don't think Nolan had any idea what this movie is about. In the end we have many plots of which many are completely redundant and this means that at least 5 characters should not be here in the first place.
The central plot of the movie is Manhattan being "kidnapped" by armed terrorists led by Bane. It means that are making 12 million people hostages for about 3-4 months (this is said in the movie). Where are these people? They are never shown, we never see any kind of suffering or logistical problems, only a few kids from an orphanage in numerous scenes, like they are the only people that matter. It is a caricature, the whole city is just a paper-board character which doesn't really exist and it doesn't really matter. Gordon says "send all officers in the sewer system" and in the next scene we see all of them running through the same tunnel. Nolan isn't even trying to make this a believable story. Same thing goes for the whole terrorist act, in the end of the movie we don't really see why this was actually planned and executed. The whole Wall Street episode also just serves to take money away from Wayne while it does seem like it would have some bigger-than- world purpose. It seems like 90% of the plot serves no purpose at all. For a 3 hour movie that's 90% too much.
I give it a 5/10 because it was filmed nice and some parts of the plot fit well (Bane and Miranda part), but everything else is just garbage.