Doctorate level concept + 6th grade level execution = FAIL

Rating: 4/10 (26 August 2012)

Abandon hope, all ye that fear SPOILERS! SPOILERS BELOW!!! YE HAVE BEEN WARNED! AAaarrggg.....
Bottom line up front: I found this movie to be EXTREMELY stupid and, frankly, insulting to the intelligence of ANY audience above the age of say....12.
Right off the bat, the film insults the audience by asking us to believe that:
1) Super high speed CIA operatives handle the conduct of covert prisoner exchange and transportation the same way they would a flubbed fast food order in a drive through.
"Dude....I didn't order onion rings, did you? No? Oh well, we're good, let's roll."
2) Criminal "masterminds" are stupid enough to try capturing AN AIRCRAFT IN FLIGHT using another AIRCRAFT IN FLIGHT by lowering hijackers on ropes/cable from AN AIRCRAFT IN FLIGHT.
Seriously? Come on man! That was a RIDICULOUS premise, and the effect LOOKED as stupid as the idea! Writer: "O.K., and then they'll lower themselves down to the plane WHILE IT'S IN FLIGHT...yea! That's it! That's believable!" No. It's not. It's a stupid idea, and it LOOKED stupid in the film.
ALL THAT STUPID before the movie even gets started....
But the stupid never stops. It just keeps going, and gets WORSE.

The Batman gets into a fight and sustains a debilitating back injury that can only be corrected through....prisoner medicine, ropes, push ups and sit ups!!!????? - An ENTIRE POLICE FORCE is stupid enough to be trapped in a sewer system. ALL of them.... WTF? - An ENTIRE POLICE FORCE is stupid enough to use civil war tactics, ie charge as a mob, against an entrenched force using automatic weapons.

A federal government is willing to just write off a large metropolitan city.

People can't manage to get into, or out of, a city undetected. Right.

There's just too much stupid to list in this film.
We are ALL willing to suspend our disbelief in a film, and that's one of the reasons we go to films. However, the film maker has to put some effort into it to make it look plausible, otherwise, it just looks stupid, and becomes irritating rather than enjoyable. This film seems to have taken a bunch of shortcuts that turned what could have been a good movie, into an irritating farce.
If a 6th grader was told to write a superhero script, I would imagine it would be very similar to this movie.
4 of 10 stars.