An Honest Review

Rating: 1/10 (16 December 2016)

The Nolan fans are going to tell me that I am not reading into this enough, so we will start there.
Reading deeply into it, the masses of the people have a popular and legitimate grievance. Bane takes advantage of it and warps it to his own cause. Bruce Wayne, a rich man that is above the law, shuts down Bane and prevents the people from airing their grievance, punishing them for it.
So, doing the Nolan fan, "everything is far deeper and more profound than it seems" thing, it's really a movie about the richest man in a city keeping the people of the city in their place.
Now, dropping the "you have to read into it thing," the movie was awful on plain movie merit.
It suggests all cops are idiots, having trapped an entire police force, because, you know, they wouldn't leave a single cop on the streets.
The federal government negotiates with terrorists and pretty much gives them anything they want.
Bane is just a cardboard cut-out of a villain. They try to develop him, but never really come into any depth greater than a tea spoon.
A few push-ups can heal a broken back.
Most of the established characters...completely ignored or simply paid lip service.
And the list goes on.
Ultimately, it is a disjointed mess. But if you look at the trilogy as a whole, Bale didn't make a very good Batman nor a good Bruce Wayne and the first one was decent, but no where near as great as everyone says it was. Really, it was Heath Ledger that made the second movie great, and the third just crumpled into dust.
If you don't think about it too hard, it is sort of easy to ignore the distracting crap that goes on. But really, it takes a lot of effort to shut off you brain that much. Most of the time, you want to yell "what the heck!" at the screen like an armchair quarter back that just watched his favorite team give up an easy win.
And this is without getting into the comic book nerd problems with it.
As a comic book nerd I had issues with the Tim Burton ones...but those were a thousand times better and looking back the best Batman movies to date.
Honestly, don't believe the hype, the Nolan trilogy has a single good movie in a mess of three sub-par films.
You don't have to be a drooling and devout fan. There are better Batman movies out there.