One Big Montage

Rating: 6/10 (26 July 2012)

I saw this opening night and paid $15 per ticket for a non 3d movie. I'm not going to go as far as to say this movie sucked. And I feel like it is over shadowed by the tragedy in Colorado, but the score to this movie, that was heard in the previous two movies, was played in almost every scene. Almost every scene was a montage, summarizing the passage of time, but in an expanded form. I don't know the technical term used for it, but each scene usually last just a few minutes before cutting to another scene. The longest scene was probably the opening one in the airplane or at bruce wayne's house; both were probably 5 min long before they cut to something else. There was very little character development and a few plot fallacies with the setting and environment. I did very much like the ending, but thought they could've gone about it a whole completely different way. The editing to this movie is non-logical, it does move the story and action forward, but it makes assumptions that the viewer won't connect, or at least to the more intelligent viewers. The plot tries to misdirect the viewer with a twist about the villain, but I feel cheapened because the character development of the head villain was never developed. The movie pretty much spends 5 mins in a montage explaining why and how the villain is who they are then expects the audience to accept it. Other characters too such as selina's, or soon to be catwomen,character was never developed either. She is a dynamic character who can't decide which side of the fence she wants to play on, but the movie never gives you reasons for her characteristics, it just expects you to accept this, which I feel is contrary to the previous two movies, where characters like bruce wayne, his ego batman, alfred, the joker, even fox's character is developed thoroughly; but not in this one.
In summary, weaker characters, inconsistent plot, but good special effects and action. I would only pay to see this in matinÃ©e.