Batman: The Dark Knight Rises Review *SPOILERS*

So if you haven't already seen this film and want to wait to see it to know what happens, I suggest you bypass this little review I'm going to personally do of this film on my thoughts about it. Whether you share these thoughts or not, this is solely my own opinion and is in no way telling anyone to change theirs, but to just have an onlook at what I think.

http://www.everypony.com/blogs/entry.php?486-Disney-Pixar-s-Brave

Leading on from this thread here.

Batman: The Dark Knight Rises

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So I first watched the film in Florida whilst I was on holiday at Orlando to go to places like Disneyworld, Sea World, Universal, etc, and yes this was just a couple of days after the tragic shooting that took place at the movie theatre in America. My respects go to the families who were affected as well as the victims themselves. I watched it for a second time with a friend of mine who was a girl who wanted to go watch it and out of pure "I'm a suck-up" I went along with. So on the second time, I got to look more deeply into the film to see any problems and anything they did well, so let me begin.

The opening, I saw that coming lol, with Bane being the man who talked back to the guards with a bag on his head, but I liked that, it was a pretty badass moment so to speak. The plane crash was done very well, and it was pretty accurate in the psychics of how a plane would fall and how the objects in the craft would react to the sudden change in pressure and altitude.

So I'll talk about Bane first, the mastermind behind such a feat. And I'm not gonna lie, in this film, Bane is just, AWESOME. If you look at any other adaptation of Bane, be it Batman and Robin, the animated series, or the Batman Arkham games, he is just a Mexican steroid junkie who can't keep up his strength without his drugs. In this film however, they use the REAL story of Bane. Now for those who haven't read the comic books, Bane was Mexican, and he was born in a prison in Mexico, which is the pit that the movie builds up to that Batman is trapped in. Bane DID break Batman's spine in the comics, as he does in the film. In Dark Knight Rises, he's more than just a mindless animal with raw strength, he's a genius at knowing every part of pain on your body that could hurt you but without actually killing you. He's actually a nice guy underneath having saved the little girl (Talia Al Ghul is her full name for those who didn't work it out) from certain traumatising events, and he does comment on how the boy at the football field has "a beautiful voice", it's just that his motives are mixed up, and Ra's Al Ghul twisted his moral sense into something it's not. He genuinely thinks he's doing a good thing by liberating people from the shackles of government, but doesn't realise that order is sometimes needed to save those whom are innocent. And the voice. Need I say anymore? The voice is just aibsfobrgoberuig amazingly hardcore, and I don't know why people complain it's too muffled, because that adds a sense of terror and awe about the guy in my books. I could listen to it alllllll day.

I could go into detail about Catwoman, but, she's a pretty solid character and that's all I can really say. Jennifer plays her well and actually suits the role after a lot of bad scripting, and I especially like how she's not in a catsuit, but her ears are like her little gadget tools that make her look like a cat. For once I feel in a film that the protagonist found someone that perfectly suits them, and it was nice how she and Bruce finally get together. I mean that heart-warming scene with Alfred just, you know, it was so clever I actually wanted to applaud for how touching and how thoughtful they were in setting all that together. I genuinely felt sorry for him through the film, and the scene in the graveyard was really deep and actually got me thinking about life and it's issues. That's quite powerful for a film about a comic book hero.

That's not to say the film isn't without it's problems though...while the story can be strong and gripping through most of the film, there are just a lot of major plotholes that should have been addressed. For example, why the hell would they send ALL the cops underground to flush Bane out? That's stupid, no police force would ever do that even if they were desperate, the city isn't TOTALLY free of crime anyway surely? And what about the fact that Batman is knocked out, thrown into a pit where hardly anyone escapes, without any of his bat gadgets, no money in Bruce Wayne's bank account, and somehow manages to get from Mexico to a totally locked down Gotham island in a day with troops on both sides ready to shoot anything on the border, they can literally see everything, without any problems? I mean, one, he doesn't have any money to catch a plane, two, troops will shoot anything on target and he has nothing to help him get into Gotham, and three, he gets from who knows where in Mexico to Gotham in a day from what I can estimate frkoom the bomb countdown? That's just being lazy to me seeing as how they don't explain any of that. Another one is why didn't Fox activate the flood chambers instead of putting his hand print on the "prime bomb" console? Way to doom Gotham Morgan Freeman! But I digress.

Another problem is THE BATMAN VOICE. Seriously! How many people have made fun of it now? And he's still doing that stupid voice when almost everyone in the film knows who he is! And Batman's hardly the focus, he rarely actually wears the costume and kicks some ass. He'd much rather fly around in his weird little hover machine which is relied upon far too often in the film. The ending with the possible introduction of Nightwing made me kind of excited, although I don't know why so many people were like "*gasp* Robin! Omg it's Robin! Could it be Robin?!" when it's clearly Nightwing if you know his story from the comic books, it just made me laugh a bit at how many people have watched the film without reading the comics. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, just people probably would have gotten a better understanding of the film.

TL;DR: I liked it, probably my favourite Batman film, although there were some major problems that needed to be addressed in the film to make it flow as smoothly as possible.