Good, but not quite as good as The Dark Knight!

Rating: 10/10 (26 April 2014)

After the success of the dark knight, I was expecting really big things of this film, and I wasn't disappointed!As soon as I found out Christopher Nolan was directing the third instalment of this film, I was like a child again, all excited!
I followed this film for the whole 2 years of production, from the day I knew that there was going to be another film, till I found out that Christian Bale was wearing the cape and cowl for the last time(which was a bit heartbreaking).
When I heard that Tom Hardy was going to the play the role of the villain Bane I wasn't too sure what to think.After all, who can forget the disastrous Batman and Robin, where Bane was portrait as being stupid!However, as all Bat fans know, this is not true.In fact it's the complete opposite.Who was the one who broke the bat in Knight fall!Even though I wasn't overly keen on the choice of the villain, I had confidence Nolan would pull this off.off. I'm sure everyone remembers the day when he chose Heath Ledger as the Joker and look what happened there.When saw the first sighting of Bane I thought wow, he is huge and the mask and outfit gave it a realistic touch.After watching the prologue I wasn't really too sure about the voice though.It was hard to understand.Fortunately when I watched the film the voice was sorted, even though the first scene the voice sounded a bit out of touch.
When I heard cat woman was cast I didn't have a clue how she was going to fit into the film.I knew about her background, that she wasn't a villain, but how was she going to fit into this film?I thought Nolan's choice for the role was good, but I just felt that they could have left her out of this and used Miranda Tate as the love interest until the end!
As for the film, there was a lot of flaws throughout.However, the effects used and the fact that Bane was connected to the league of shadows pulled the trilogy together and it is hard to do that.I knew that Bane would break the bat, but when the Bat and Bane fought for the second time I felt that the death was a let down.Maybe a rooftop scene where they fought and the Bat broke his one rule!Another question asked was that even though Batman managed to take the bomb away, with it being a nuclear bomb the explosion would have gone a lot further than it did.Also, how did Bruce Wayne find his way back to Gotham after escaping the prison?Why did Gordon issue ALL the police force to go into the sewers when they would be needed in the city as well.I was a bit confused about the time scales at times.Was the war in the morning?Was it in the late evening?As for the bank heist, it was awfully quick between it being light and turning to day.Maybe this is me being too critical, but they stood out like a sore thumb for myself.I did however, like a LOT of things about this movie.I liked the Batplane.I mean, who doesn't.Three batman films with the plane would suck.The fight scenes between Batman and Bane were awesome, such intense scenes.I thought that the ending was pretty awesome.Even though I stated that catwoman was unnecessary, Bruce wayne did manage to find love and escape the cape and cowl for good and let somebody take over.I liked this touch as it left the film open for more.
Overall, not as good as the dark knight, but I couldn't have too many complaints with a third film because as everyone knows trilogies are hard to pull off.
If I were Nolan, I would continue the franchise, but as we know this is not going to happen.If you do read this review Nolan, you could have the villain as the penguin being the mayor and creating havoc!