Neither the ending we deserve, nor needed right now.

Rating: 6/10 (10 August 2014)

Nolan has got us accustomed to a very high standard of film making, no matter what he tackles as the subject. The Dark Knight trilogy is a very good example of this, when your typical superhero films can also stand as powerful pieces of cinema. Alas "Dark Knight Rises", after the exploding success of the brilliantly captured "Dark Knight", did fell short in comparison. Arguably, the success of any Batman film and even comic/graphic novel is dynamics between our dark hero and the villain, and in my opinion, Batman vs Bane was not taken to it's full potential. The tactical brilliance of Bane, portrayed by Hardy, was always out-shadowed by his brutality and sheer raw power, with a very dubious choice of voice effects that subtracted the terrifying factor right out of the equation, while Bale's performance was never stellar throughout the trilogy, this script did nothing to develop his character, mostly the opposite happened when you reach the end of this story. The big revelation concerning our villain only made the whole concept of Bane even less powerful, shedding some light into some questionable plot holes in the story, and there is an unwelcome sort of cheesy in all Joseph Gordon-Levitt scenes, unquestionably brought to light in the last minutes of the film. All in all, the film does feel like an ending, further deconstructing the myth of Batman, a vigilante created by a common crime by a faceless criminal, to fight so that someone wouldn't suffer through the same.