Tries to do too much, accomplishes very little. A disappointment...

Rating: 4/10 (14 August 2012)

I was quite sad that the movie turned out to be like it is, because I really had high hopes for it, especially after the amazing movie that The Dark Night was.
I think that the movie simply has too many inconsistencies and just plain badly done scenes:
1. The scientist takes about 10 seconds to fiddle with a state-of-the-art reactor and make it into a bomb. 2. They had never seen this reactor before, supposedly didn't even know it existed, yet somehow, they have a "nuclear" piece that fits right into it and magically turns it into a bomb... 3. How batman stays still like he can't move when he's stabbed, yet 2 minutes later everything is fine again and he's running around. 4. How when the truck with the bomb crashes, the woman who's in the front of the truck dies, yet Com. Gordon, who's in the back of the lorry, in a huge metal compartment, with no seat belt, no nothing, is just fine. Not even a scratch on him. 5. How they make people walk in ice, yet in the next scene where they show a view of the city supposedly 1-2 days later, there's no ice to be seen. 6. How when Robin goes to save the cops and tells them to come up the manhole, the cop is immediately shot. Also, if the manhole was there the whole time and it was open, why didn't the cops just escape? 7. The scene where all the cops charge up to the criminals, how come no one shoots at the running cops before they're like 50 meters from City Hall, and also, how do Bane and Batman just stand in the middle of hundreds of guys with guns and yet nobody thinks to shoot at them?
Seriously, I could go on, but the truth is that at one point I could not stop realizing how many sloppy twists and events were happening on the screen, and how little attention had been given to detail.
On top of this, the story becomes weak by trying to include so many different, irrelevant little things at the same time, which leaves nothing but poorly developed characters and too many scenes that add nothing to the plot...
All in all, a huge disappointment. I mean, if I hadn't had such great expectations from such a good director as Nolan, then I probably would have considered it as passable, nothing to write home about. But after seeing what he was able to do with The Dark Knight, and then to see such a crappy followup, leaves me feeling disappointed and sad for what could (should) have been a great movie.