Good but not the best.

Rating: 4/10 (20 July 2012)

This was a decent movie, however it was not the best movie of 2012, or the summer. The drama was strained at times, and the movie was excessively long. Long for no reason. Fans of Nolan's work will like this end to what was a good stretch for Nolan's trilogy, however I'm not sure how comic book fans will respond to this last story-line. Christian Bale and Morgan Freeman were good as always. Tom Hardy was good but he was no where as good as Heath Ledger. Anne Hathaway did not change my view that she was not a good choice for this role. Sir Michael Cain is a great actor, he did what he could with what was given to him. The action was good but the movie drags terribly at times. Again, it's a decent movie, better than many that have been released so far. Many people have been trying to compare it to the Avengers or The Amazing Spiderman, it should never be compared to these two movies. The drama in Spiderman was better, the story moved more fluid. The Avengers is still, to date, the best comic book based movie and The Dark Knight is still the best of Nolan's version of Batman.