Saturday, July 21, 2012

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Rated: PG13 - Runtime: 165 min
tesg's Rating: Two stars (out of four)

The last twenty minutes of this movie is pretty good.  The problem is the two hours and twenty-five minutes prior to that.  If you can overlook that, you'll probably enjoy this.

The dialogue is relatively simple compared to the previous two efforts.  The villain, a big guy with an in-car drive-in speaker attached to his face, sounds like an amplified Jeffrey Lebowski.  I kept expecting him to try and sell someone a Hyundai.  Catwoman had almost no reason to exist in this movie.  I saw the plot twist coming a mile away.  And Batman's return after an eight-year hiatus...really didn't take much to accomplish, did it.

This is Spider-Man 3 bad.  Really.