Christopher Nolan the director of the Dark Knight trilogy and in my opinion an amazing producer and screenwriter failed to produce an epic conclusion to the Batman trilogy. The 2 hour and 45 minute long film drags on an attempt to create an overly portentousness and momentousness movie filmed with grand dilemmas and great darkness, which only succeeds in weighing down the movie. Bruce Wayne returns not once but twice in an attempt to defeat Bane, a second rate villain who’s about as scary as my cocker spaniel. Bane, masked and barely comprehensible fails to deliver as bigger bolder villain that Bruce Wayne struggles to defeat. His masculinity is taken away by the mask and clothes, which cover up many defined muscle features. By doing this Bane does not come off as a super villain even with all of the grand acts of terrorism.
However I will acknowledge that the first scene, a midair hijacking, is audacious and original. A lot of what follows is slick and expensive, and the killing field shown in the trailers is simply breathtaking. You can’t fault the film for lacking grandiosity and scale. But Nolan bites off more than even he can chew in the movie’s third act which borderline’s nonsensical third act. He’s always been adept at structure, so it’s dismaying how often Nolan falls back on crude parallel editing and flashbacks and how loosely he plays with space and time in a climax that rings more than a little hollow in its efforts to circle back to “Batman Begins.”