So boring.

Rating: 1/10 (21 December 2014)

I want to start this review by mentioning that I am a huge Batman fan, and of the first two films in the christopher nolan "dark knight" trilogy. "Batman Begins", and "The Dark Knight" films were dramatic, exciting, thrilling, and enormously entertaining. The films were what Batman fans have been waiting for since the beginning of the character over 60 years ago. It completely left out the campy, and colorful nature that the previous films, and TV shows had and gave these films a gritty realness that elevated the whole Batman idea to something that could be taken seriously.
As much as I applaud the writing, acting, and directing of the first two films, they are not without their faults. But, when I watched the third installment to the trilogy two years ago, and again recently, I was completely taken aback and shocked by what a horrible, and boring movie it was. There are huge stretches to the movie that dragged on while literally nothing happened. While the first two movies had incredible villains, this one had a big, buff moron who wasn't scary and you could barely understand anything he was saying. It reminds me of all the times his voice was mocked and for good reason. He sounds ridiculous. Then, you have catwoman who comes off as just a petty thief who shouldn't be stealing things that belonged to Bruce Wayne's mother. She is ultimately only concerned with getting a "clean slate" so that she can start her life over. Doesn't that sound menacing? Yeah, it doesn't. I hated her from her first scene and to think that we were supposed to like her is laughable.
On top of that it seemed as though every person in the film knew that Bruce Wayne was batman, comissioner Gordon had it figured out, which is fine but, so did a young rookie cop (whose first name is Robin for no reason), catwoman totally knew, Bane knew, and so did Talia. I guess we're supposed to have no problem with anyone knowing since we know but, we're the audience. We're supposed to know, we've had two movies let us know about it but, these characters haven't. They shouldn't know, and we shouldn't be okay with them knowing.
On top of all of that, while the first two films showed us how much Batman cared for Gotham, and the residents living there, it also showed us his incredible sense of honor and morality. This movie seemed to throw that all by the wayside to show him as someone who didn't care for the city, and all of his hardwork was for nothing. They showed a city that had barely two people who gave a crap about anything, and a man who hard given up on everything for years because Alfred couldn't give him a letter. It seemed to diminish Batman and Bruce Wayne down to an ordinary man, which he isn't. He's a superhero for crying out loud.
This movie was boring for having barely any action, terrible dialogue, a surprising twist that wasn't surprising because I can't imagine anyone caring enough about it to be surprised by it. I can't imagine anyone caring enough about the villains to want to see them killed, or for the people of Gotham to be saved, or for Catwoman enough to see her walk away with our so-called hero. The ending also made no sense and while I may have slightly spoiled some parts of the film, I won't give that away completely. This review is not here to keep anyone from seeing this, in fact, I think everyone should so that they can see how horrible it is. This is mainly here for me, so that I can get out some of the anger and disappointment that this stupid movie left me with. I know that this movie got a ridiculously high 8 rating and I may be in a small group of people who hated it but, I can't understand why, and I hope more people can start to admit that this movie sucks.