wow i can't believe I've been neglecting my cool movie review blog. no wonder box office numbers are down so much! no one know what to see!
I couldn't pass up reviewing this years second most anticipated film "The Dark Night Rises" starring bat man.
If you haven't seen the trwo movies before this, the trilogy began with "Bat Man Begins" that showed how mat man began and then it was followed by "The Dark Night" that showed that bat man comes out when its dark (at night). It had the Joker in it.
Warnig, contains spoilers!!!
This new one did not have the joker in it. It had Cat Girl and Bane as the bad guys. This picked up after Batman 2: the Dark Night and bat man broke his leg or something (wasn't explained, guess 3+ hours wasn't enough time to run though some basic facts) and he wasn't fighting crime anymore.
One thing that was annoying was how they had to cut corners to save on budget. they kept showing "flash backs" to the other two movies (not unlike silent night deadly night part 2) (hey that one has night in the title too... coincidence???). In all it probably totaled like 30-45 minutes of flashbacks. Really took me out of the moment. Were they really that desperate to save money?? I guess so.
They also introduced all sorts of new stuff to make toys out of. Bat Bycicle was back but now there was also a bat air plane and an army of bat mobiles the bad guys used. The film producers probably (correctly) though kids would say "Oh there's like 5 in the movie the bad guys have? Guess i gotta buy five of the same toy so i can recreate this scene!" Its always great to spend $11 on a toy commercial!
Then at the end of the movie they blew up the bat plane (probably again hoping kids at home would blow up their toy bat plan so they'd have to keep buying more). The producers just love selling those toys! Too bad they didn't care about competent scripting!
Nothing really happened in the movie either. Bat man took some time off and lived in a whole for a while and bane took over NYC. Then bat man got out of the hole and saved the day. Wow, didn't see that coming, thought for sure bane would win. Real original!!!
They also keep saying "finale of the trilogy" but they set it up for a sequel at the end!! Surprise!! Guess eight bat man movies aren't enough, they gotta keep making them! They introduce a character named "Robbie" at the end who finds the bat cave and apparently if you just happen to wander in the bat cave bat mans suit just rises up (is this where the film title came from) and invites you to put it on. No secret code or anything!
Lets say some deer just wanders into the cave (been known to happen) it could suddenly see the suit and put it on. Then it'd be bat man deer or something (this idea copyright dings 2012).
So this film was 1. way too long, 2. filled with things only introduced to sell toys 3. filled with clips from the previous movies 4. had a tacked on ending so they could make a 4th one making this one of the biggest duds i have seen since whatever the last movie i reviewed. Very disappointed that i take a break from movies and come back to see they have not improved at all!
For obvious reasons i have to award this film my lowest possible rating, 2 stars (**).
