The Truest Testament to Terrible Scripts

Rating: 3/10 (21 July 2012)

The Batman series have had a rather negative course since Batman Begins. It was a near perfect action film that had no real faults. Then we had the overlong and pointless Dark Knight. I never thought Nolan would do even worse film but he succeeded excellently.
Let's start at beginning. Bane's kidnapping of Dr. Pavel was futile and unrealistic scene. That looked more like 90's Batman than Nolan's. It gave a very bad first impression. After that the only action for an hour is that Gordon was shot and Batman decides to rise again. Gordon's hospital trip was tried to make dramatic with Gordon's over-epic lines. Needless to say it failed with it's own search for emotion. Batman's return was terrible. He has spent the last eight years in his house but when a completely unknown cop tells Bruce he believed in him as a child Batman decides to return. Pitiful writing...
Then there's Bane. A villain so evil that it began to seem hilarious. He looked terrible and his voice was horrible. I wonder what Nolan thought when invented how we'll beat him. But the worst side in him was his motives. Seriously, did they have to mess him up with The League of Shadows. Since when they wanted anarchy? And why Bane didn't at least do anything in the first film? One would guess he would wish to see the victory or defeat of his enemy. That was the film's worst failure and from the moment where we learned that I knew the film was beyond redemption.
The other characters were just as bad. Batman's allies didn't do really anything, Blake was pointless and Catwoman And Miranda were terribly written and even more worse presented. When the best developed character was Dr. Jonathan Crane who was for some 2 minutes we know something's wrong.
I must agree with the critics that the film was overplotted. That wouldn't alone matter but when they are completely separate and they don't work together that really does matter. I mean Batman's cell trip, Catwoman, Bane's history, atomic bomb and Blake's story at the same time. That just doesn't work.
Hans Zimmer's score was (as usual) forgettable and unimaginative. The scenes that were supposed to be dramatic were ruined by the music. You may say I'm a hater because I really despise Zimmer (he repeats himself too much and his music is boring) but that's my opinion.
The good things were the ending, as it was completely new to superhero films and the setting. Crane as a judge was a great idea. Visuals were great but so they are in The Transformers...
Overall this film fails to conclude Batman trilogy in style and is a bad film in it's own right. Even if it does come in black doesn't make it a good Batman film. The few good things doesn't save this but but they make some rise with my score.