An Epic Stinker.

Rating: 1/10 (30 December 2012)

Where to start? You don't expect a high budget super hero movie to be an ode to martial arts, physics and clever writing. At the same time though, you expect better than what you would see in a more light-hearted movie written for a different demographic like Charlie's Angels.
Aviation physics and firearms effects go completely out the window very early on in this movie, but only a minority of the audience will likely notice that.
More glaring are the fight scenes. While movies like The Avengers convince us of a female character's ability to defeat someone bigger and heavier than herself through elaborate martial arts choreography, The Dark Night Rises simply endows Selina/The Catwoman (Anne Hathaway) with the same ability to defy body mechanics and physical combat basics that Cameron Diaz exhibited in Charlie's Angels. And the reckless, clumsy, kamikaze style slugfest between the male characters is no better. -It simply makes you want to groan.
Worst of all is the writing. If you enjoyed the yawning plot holes and brutal rape of the original premise, story line and characters in the 2009 Star Trek and the 1996 Mission Impossible than you can disregard this review. However if those things bother you in a movie, then consider yourself warned in advance about this stinker.