Good, but out of this world? I think not...

Rating: 4/10 (21 August 2012)

Not too sure why there are all these 10 reviews. This was far from perfect.
First the good: Catwoman - excellent and Anne Hathaway does a bang up job. Expect a sequel. Probably with her and Robin.
Bane - another excellent villain for batman. But there is no way he even comes close to the joker.
The score was excellent. Screenplay pretty well done.
Good ending tying everything together - there will DEFINITELY be a next one, but its likely to involve cat woman/robin a bit more.
Scarecrow used as the judge/jury/executioner. Brilliant.
Now the bad: There were so many clichés it hurt my head. But to counter that there were actually some well handled potential clichés.
The fight scenes have been dumbed down to boxing matches, really pathetic. Very surprising considering the quality of the previous movies.
The movie was badly paced in terms of characters. At the start it seems they introduce you to lots of characters, give you a tiny back story, but its as if they say "none of this is interesting, lets get to some blowing up techy stuff!". 3/4 of the movie was blowing stuff up while the first quarter seemed like an after thought that they had to put in to make it slightly believable. Not cool. Your characters should develop and change during the story, not just be fillers for some cool action. Thats what it felt like in the end.
The real bad gal I feel didn't have any teeth and was a bit pathetic. They killed her off though, but didn't kill off Bane, which was probably good.
The action was a bit pants, nothing mind blowing or that cool. We all remember the bike/wall turn around scene from the last movie, nothing cool like that going on here. About the best bit was the explosive start to the hostage drama. The worst part was the amazingly slow missiles which can't quite catch what looks to be a VERY slow helicopter. Please, we aren't retards. Missiles generally move at faster than the speed of sound (like 2 times at least), they don't move at the 50kmh that those ones were or they would be completely useless and fall out of the sky because they are moving so freaking slow. Pathetic and quite stupid. Another bad bit was cat woman using the guns on the bike to shoot through about a 3 story pyramid of cars with 1 shot. She then shoots Bane with the same guns, which should have left him splattered all over the room (along with Batman who he was killing at the time), but probably just grazed him a bit. She should have just run him over.
The story piece with Bane breaking Batmans back/him getting healed and escaping was pretty badly done to be honest. It lacked any realism or depth.
Time and some plot coherency are treated badly - Bane breaks Batmans back, suddenly he is in a different country, amazingly some "doctors" at the bottom of a hole fix him with a rope and a punch, he gets tough, climbs out and magically appears back in Gotham. Badly handled and unsatisfying.
The scene where cops run at men with fully automatic weapons and tanks then overcome them is neither believable or realistic. In the real world they would have been mown down easily. In this world they take down a fully armed malitia.
Another part that was pants - Robin telling to clear everyone out of the tunnels. The last cops are going in when everyone is told to clear out. But all the cops just keep going. Then somehow they are all trapped. Uhhhh... didn't he tell all you guys just entering the tunnel to turn around? Why didn't you... turn around? Dumb. Also the cops then have no way out. But supplies are being given to them... so there is a way out? Badly handled. Why didn't Bane just kill them all? Its what he wanted anyway...
Really the movie didn't feel anywhere near the standard of the last one, not sure why you would give it 10... maybe its people so enchanted with the franchise they upgrade an average movie to amazing. But thats what it was, average.