The Dark Knight Rises (12A)

I also think catwoman plays a very weak role

This film like batman begins was bland it didn't have much go in it but it had the full batman feel. I enjoyed it but baine made me laugh though I doubt he was meant to and I found it difficult to understand what he was saying in parts of the film to. it had the batman dark knight feel but like I say to everyone "the only reason that batman dark knight was so good was because Heath Ledger played the best joker ever." so wait until the dvd reduces, I also thought a lot of it a baby could have guessed what was going to happen. 3 and a half stars

I thought this film was great, I had low expectations because of the poor reviews it received, but I was pleasantly surprised.

1. The film is essentially a comic book story but the director tries to insert some sort of analysis and ethical commentary on wealth and corporations. This fails cause the protagonist is mega-wealthy and uses the stock market, so how can there simultaneously be criticism of the global financial market? The message seems to be that it depends how the market is used, blah, blah, there is not sufficient skill to delivery this message. 2. The best character, actor and part of the story is Bane. And again more moral ambiguity. Bane also seems like the most sympathetic character, he was in a hell hole and saved a child. He is a hero, we are sick and tired of Batman, and you sort of would like Bane to finish the guy. Point here is make a movie about Bane. 3. By the third hour I am almost asleep but then there is the moral conundrum that Gotham is thrown into as citizens are supposed to turn on each other- a repeat but longer of the same idea in the last Batman. . where also the best character, actor etc was the antagonist. However the idea is not fully played out, why do they turn on each other, how? Borrowing thinly from the Jacobins and Robespierre is not well done. 4. Why do Batman and Catwoman have no chemistry? Sometimes a movie is more than the sum of its parts, this one is less.

Joe - great comments!

Wonderful film, easily the best action film I've seen

Thinking about the Batman trilogy, this one is very similar to the first. Long depressing scenes filmed underground; people stuck in cavernous pits generally doing sod all! Interspersed with occasional, fantastic hi-tec FX. The 1st like the 3rd lacked punch and a sense of direction. In both, Batman was lame and the whole thing felt like a one man led show, that man being C Nolan. Part 2 The Dark Knight, worked because of a great Oscar winning performance that brought life, danger and fun into the film; or to put it another way, it was a good film cos C Nolan got lucky! Isn't he in danger of joining a whole group of American directors whose films rely entirely on visual tricks - with the aid of lorry loads of money - due to a lack of genuine film-making vision and creative talent? Look at Inception; jaw dropping FX yes, but the film wasn't really about anything! It was so bland and repetitive... Batman, the Gothic superhero action/adventure needs to be revived once more... It needs some good, well thought-out scripts, more cool characters and some real fun and laughs... who needs all the exploding bridges?!?

waste of time Story does not make sense, the effects of weak and thoughtful I went out with relief, 3-hour piece of junk

if 30000 NYPD officers can live underground trapped in rabble for 6 months without medicare electricity or food and emerge looking as healthy as prince harry to fight the bad guys and if a NY TRILLIONAIRE can survive both a deep visceral stabbing and a 4 ton nuke than indeed this is not as bad as prometheus which was pathetic ,and we have not even begun to shred it yet

Disagree totally what is it with time out reviews soooo moody and miserable. the 2 big movies for the summer prometheus and bagman rises and both to some people are terrible. prometheus was a great dissapointment but this batman movie is a lot better. Character development was very good with exellent acting performances i thought catwoman was great and chriatian bale also had a memorable performance. The bane character was awesome a genuinely terrifying bad guy and the high jacking scene at the beginning was awesome. the film just flew with great editing so you didnt even notice the lenght of the movie. sorry joe but you really need to brighten up and get a life to say this movie was really bad just goes against the opinion if most people who loved it