Since Christopher Nolan experienced such a sharp rise it's only right he receives his proper downfall. But such rise-and-fall narratives are tiresome (as this movie shows) and I'm going to resist hating Nolan because it is the current trend. Granted, Nolan was never and probably is never going to match Kubrick or Hitchcock or Scorsese. But let's put aside his modest talents. He did a fairly good job on the first two Batman films despite this.
Moreover, he can't be entirely blamed. The death of Ledger truly distorts the film aa the Joke was clearly meant to be here and he is sorely missed. Dark Knight Rises is Batman's confronting his true opposite, Bane. Let us be clear: Nolan's Bane isn't Schumacher's monstrosity. But this isn't Batman's Bane either and the changes made to Bane are puzzling - to begin with it's almost impossible to HEAR Bane which in a MOVIE IS a problem.
The other dilemma is that Bane's entire style - ideology, custome, and strategy never add up. WHY is he torturing Batman? The logic escapes me and the explanation given borders on the ludicrous. Catwoman is thrown in and she looks lovely as does the Batbike and huge "Bat plane" at the end. But the Batman trilogy resisted these easy - and mindless - pleasures. This film is needlesssly long, tedious, boring, illogical, comical, and, jus plain, confusing.
I know Nolan is TRYiNG to tell us something deep and profound about terrorism, fascism, class warfare, and Batman's mythology but this is, basically, a really bad sci-fi plot made worse by poor pacing and even poorer twists. Adding characters to an already bloated cast just makes one wonder if Nolan has truly lost his mind or is unable to deliver any film without pretensese of being some Joycean novel. A final problem and its HUGE ONE is Nolan's lack of anything resembling a good sense of humor. Batman Begins had a few dry laughs but this film tries to deliver the dumbest, longest jokes in film history OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
This isn't Def Jam comedy. It's as if a deaf is TRYING to direct a horror/comedy and manages to make a bad version of the Sixth Sense and Mad Max together and those were hardly the classics everyone thinks they were. A truly awful movie by Nolan and all the more puzzling that it is considered the best in the trilogy. Some people have no taste or just sharper hearing than me.
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