It was just a good action movie, nothing else

Rating: 6/10 (30 July 2012)

If this was supposed to be just an action movie, if I would have walked into the theater with only that kind of expectations, I would have given it, maybe, an 8. But this is not another action movie, this was supposed to be the end of a trilogy, something that Nolan created and directed. And from that point of view it was a total disappointment. Clichéd story line, useless characters and confusing plot - the question "what is the point of that" came rather often in my mind, and not because I didn't understand what was happening, I just couldn't believe it. This movie did have its highlights, but frankly, the bad outweighs the good. And I do understand why so many people give it a 10, I also wanted to like this movie, I wanted to find it pure genius, and after I left the theater I tried to convince myself that it was indeed good, but in the light of harsh reality I must say it isn't. After I saw The Dark Knight, I was left mesmerized and touched. But this is just ordinary, pushing some well known emotional buttons in the end and does get the desired reaction from the audience, but a talent like Nolan shouldn't have to resort to things like that. Still it would deserve a 10 on effort - 10000 extras and powerful soundtrack... impressive. To bad they couldn't do more with that.
My final score is 6: making a movie almost 3 hours long and not showing anything truly impressive, memorable and smart during that time, just because everyone is going to see this movie anyway, is not forgivable.