1. The Dark Knight Rises (8.7)
Yet more Christopher Nolan hype. I personally found this movie extremely disappointing compared to the previous two installments. After the global success of the Dark Knight, (a movie I believe to be one of the best of all time,) I and a lot of others, were expecting another masterpiece from Nolan and a great conclusion to what has been an epic trilogy. But this we did not get. Batman Begins and The Dark Knight were essentiallly intricate works of genius, but this movie lacks everything that made these movies great. The only reason why everyone is waxing lyrical about it, is simply because they can't dare to criticize Christopher Nolan and his beloved Batman trilogy. For a start, the villain (Bane) is the most pathetic villain of any comic book film I've ever seen. He is a cardboard, unexplored character, and the scene at the end when he actually CRIES is just laughable. Can you imagine the Joker crying? Also, Bane's one on one encounters with The Batman were poorly choreographed and undramatic and they hardly involved anything but a few punches being swung. The introduction of Catwoman was a highly pointless inclusion by Nolan as she added nothing to the story whatsoever; her insertion seemed almost forced and weak. But for me, the worst aspect of this movie was that for a film that lasted nearly 3 hours, and I'd wager that there was less than 20 minutes of Bruce Wayne as Batman. Admittedly there are some impressive set pieces, (the American Football one springs to mind in particular,) but these aren't enough to save this movies from "massive disappointment" status. The 8.6 out of 10 rating seems laughable considering it is such an unoriginal, uninspiring blockbuster, that fails to deliver on almost every level. Again: I think the IMDB users are guilty of some serious bandwagoning when it came to rating this...
My Rating: 7.8Agree or disagree? Let us know in the comments section below.