Okay where do I begin....

Rating: 5/10 (21 July 2012)

First off Bane is my favorite villain in the Batman comics. He is a good villain for this film except his voice is absolutely absurd. Whoever dubbed it so that it could be more audible went over the top at times, I laughed out loud when i first heard him speak on the plane heist scene. To put it simply he sounds like Sean Connery and Fat Bastard from Austin Powers had an offspring. Marion Cotillard ruins the movie, she did not need to be in it at all and since she was they should have revealed who she actually was way sooner.
If it would've just followed the Knightfall arc and made JGL the new Batman that Bruce had to fight at the end it would have been better. The bomb could still be in there too so I'm not implying an entire revamp of the plot.
Add to that, Batman is only in the movie about 45 minutes. That is ridiculous. The scenes were edited without anything to really trap you in the moment either and for God's sake its been 8 years and Bruce is a billionaire, Rachael was ugly as sin and treated him like poop, move on dude! I'm glad Bane finally got his due as being the awesome villain that he is but the voice was inconsistent which made took you out of the moment at times . If you see it you'll know what I mean.
The ending worked well and could be interpreted in a couple ways which Nolan's big thing so I had no problem with that. Anyone who sees this needs to read up on the "Bane of the Demon/Legacy" comic book arc to understand how Talia fits into it because if you don't you will be lost. Wikipedia will help you insurmountably with this film. It was not as good as Dark Knight and not because Heath wasn't in it. It was too compacted with an un-needed Talia. Anne Hathaway was good, her fight scenes were pretty cool too. Anyway 5/10. Maybe they'll fix Bane's voice AGAIN before it comes to Blu-Ray LOL