DARK KNIGHT RISES | Wildly ambitious movie has astounding opening sequence—how did they do that?—followed by film that never ends Reminiscent of the last ‘Lord of the Rings’ movie (‘If one more orc comes over the mountain I will throw up’) in overkill. The last half is a relentless build-up to tieing up loose plot points that goes on for what seems like—and is—hours and loses focus in batches of fragmentary subplots. A mash-up of variously sentimental, violent, sadistic, mystical, semi-political, vaguely anti-Muslim, vaguely anti-foreigner (Marion Cotillard) false endings followed by the predictably climactic mushroom cloud—followed by the sugary Michael-Caine-sees-a-ghost fade-out. Highlights: Christian Bale when he has the mask off. Cheekbones can act all by themselves. Anne Hathaway being sarcastic. Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the Robin character. Gary Oldman. The intentional mix-up of the French Revolution’s Robespierre trials (only missing Mme Defarge’s knitting) with Occupy Wall Street. See what happens when you liberate the lower classes without a paramilitary police corps to suppress them! Lowlights: Christian Bale and Tom Hardy speaking vocoder through expressionless masks. The unmotivated Darth Vader Jr villain with a back-story that is both silly and endlessly over-explained. The red herring Marion Cotillard character. The lack of any romantic heat between Christian Bale and either of the two female leads. Dark Knight Rises manages to be both overwhelming and underwhelming.  DARK KNIGHT RISES | Wildly ambitious movie has astounding opening sequence—how did they do that?—followed by film that never ends

DARK KNIGHT RISES | Wildly ambitious movie has astounding opening sequence—how did they do that?—followed by film that never ends

Reminiscent of the last ‘Lord of the Rings’ movie (‘If one more orc comes over the mountain I will throw up’) in overkill.

The last half is a relentless build-up to tieing up loose plot points that goes on for what seems like—and is—hours and loses focus in batches of fragmentary subplots. A mash-up of variously sentimental, violent, sadistic, mystical, semi-political, vaguely anti-Muslim, vaguely anti-foreigner (Marion Cotillard) false endings followed by the predictably climactic mushroom cloud—followed by the sugary Michael-Caine-sees-a-ghost fade-out.

Highlights: Christian Bale when he has the mask off. Cheekbones can act all by themselves. Anne Hathaway being sarcastic. Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the Robin character. Gary Oldman. The intentional mix-up of the French Revolution’s Robespierre trials (only missing Mme Defarge’s knitting) with Occupy Wall Street. See what happens when you liberate the lower classes without a paramilitary police corps to suppress them!

Lowlights: Christian Bale and Tom Hardy speaking vocoder through expressionless masks. The unmotivated Darth Vader Jr villain with a back-story that is both silly and endlessly over-explained. The red herring Marion Cotillard character. The lack of any romantic heat between Christian Bale and either of the two female leads.

Dark Knight Rises manages to be both overwhelming and underwhelming. 

DARK KNIGHT RISES | Wildly ambitious movie has astounding opening sequence—how did they do that?—followed by film that never ends

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