Good enough movie as a conclusion of the trilogy

Rating: 7/10 (21 July 2012)

It was good but definitely not of Nolan standards. There was an issue with voice recordings in a few scenes which made it hard to understand the dialogue sometimes. The fight between batman and bane were like tired and slow street brawlers fighting. Not the way trained ninjas fight. Batman didn't even use the cool gadgets on his utility belt, in the battle apart from a lame attempt. The confrontation is iconic in comics but very average in the movie. Ann Hathaway is miscast as Catwoman and there is not an ounce of felinity in her body language or dialogue delivery. Bane seems very superficial and emotionless. His pain and anger is not shown well. The ending is also very predictable. It has good chase scenes, The plot is interesting and has its moments but leaves you with an impression that it was too rushed, and a lot of things were edited out. Hopefully uncut Blu Ray will fix that. All the shortcomings aside, it is still a good movie that ends the amazing journey of Nolan's Batman and is well worth a watch.