Well made but disappointing story

Rating: 6/10 (10 August 2012)

The Dark Knight Rises is a well made, well acted movie, but the story is disappointing. There is the ghost of Matrix 3 here; the filmmakers are so obsessed with telling some profound story that they failed to make an entertaining movie. Unbelievable, around an hour of the movie goes by, nearly half, with out an appearance by Batman. I don't know about everyone else, but that's who I came to see at the movie.
The plot involves several of what the late Gene Siskel called 'idiot plot' devices. These are plot devices which drive the story, but the characters inexplicably don't do the obvious intelligent thing which would unravel and stop the problem. It is story telling at it's worst.
The Dark Knight Rises is not a bad movie, but an unsatisfying one.