Third movie curse

Rating: Null/10 (21 July 2012)

Why is it that the third movie in just about every trilogy stinks? Return of the Jedi, Matrix Revolutions, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, etc etc.. The first two movies were mind-blowingly fantastic! Why, oh why do we get this bloated garbage?
There is a lot of lazy film-making in this. The score is reused with very little new music and it is WAY overused. The plot is way too bloated and convoluted for this kind of movie and is way too long. Too many characters are introduced that we are supposed to care about with little justification--Nolan should have eliminated half the cast. The acting is godawful--which says a lot, since many of these people usually deliver solid performances. Many of the action scenes are anything but inspiring. Even the dramatic encounters between Batman and Bain are horribly choreographed mish-mashes which hardly show either character to advantage. The romance between Miranda Tate and Wayne is just contrived and silly. This movie is like watching a 6 hour miniseries that some hack at a network has condensed into a 2 hour movie to fit in a slot.
Frankly it would be hard to live up to the first two movies but the sad thing is that this is a poor effort. The basic plot was a good premise but the script should have gone thru two or three more rewrites before this was made.
Sad end to a great franchise. Disappointed in you Chris Nolan.