Lazy cash grab

Rating: 5/10 (15 August 2018)

The Dark Knight was as close to perfect as a comic book - crime epic flick could get. Starting with Batman Begins, Nolan & team made the right decision to base this version of Batman with plausability.
All that hard work in the first 2 movies was thrown out the window. I will give the writers credit for trying to get the script right. The pre production process was very lengthy.
Here's what I admired:
The convergence of story, image and music at exactly the right point in the film
The love story that happens off screen (mirrored by Bane & Talia)
The plot device utlizing Alfred
Wayne getting double crossed that was simple and not needlessly complex
Banes minimal costume
Nolan understanding less is more (except with Robin)
Here's what made me groan:
Robin's unneccessary backstory, complete with the Irish priest at the orphanage
Bane's raid at the stock exchange using Wayne's fingerprint (the whole world knew that Bane was there, any trading would not have been authorized)
Which leads to Wayne losing all his money, being removed from the Board of his company, and handing it over to Talia - too contrived because the end game was the fusion reactor.
What really broke the camels back was Banes plan to use the Wayne industry prototypes in the basement for his takeover of Gotham. Anyone who has been around the military knows you would not go into combat with a prototype unit. They cost insane amounts of money to make, break down easily and there are no spare parts. You need a production model with spare parts to go into combat.
Half the movie smacks of laziness.