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WHERE'S BATMAN?
Seriously, where is he? The first 1/3 of the movie is spent "catching us up" on the events of the past 8 years. There's a Dent act, Wayne Enterprises is in trouble, and the Batman hasn't been seen since Dent died. That's an awful lot to force on an audience that's been watching the story of Bruce Wayne unfold in-real-time up to now. It's as if Nolan didn't know how to pick up where The Dark Knight left off, so he jumped into the future to tell his story. It may work for Mad Men, but it didn't work here (and Mad Men gets more than 3 hours to make it work).
And even more egregious is the fact that The Dark Knight himself is pretty lame when he is on screen. The smart detective with lots of rich gadgets was turned into a punching brute with brand new helicopter. Are we really to believe that a character like Batman will blindly follow Catwoman into a trap? The scene went something like this:
Batman: Take me to Bane.
Catwoman: Okey, just walk next to me.
Batman: Are you going to double cross me?
Catwoman: No, I have boobs.
Batman: Good enough for me. Let's go.
I suppose it's not all bad. Batman did carry some sort of EMP-rifle and really lame smoke bombs… and a Batplane. Let's not forget about the Batplane. It's just too bad that we spent more time watching the Batplane than Batman himself. The entire last 15-minute climax wasn’t about Batman – it was about the Batplane. And once you take focus off of the main character, you lose the audience.
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