For some reason this film is completely missing the distinctive Nolan touches of finesse pacing and emotional involvement that made the previous DK episodes classics.

It all just felt a looked a bit B-movie ish. The bat vehicles looked like cardboard mock-ups, the "guns" visibly wobbled about and on the bat bike the effect is bordering on comical. The tank gun muzzle flashes had that kind of sparkly effect that was state of the art in about uuh 1985. The main fight scenes lacked any sense of tension or intensity. The bad guys/girls lacked any real menace. The plot was poorly paced.

The presence of the top rank actors like Freeman Caine and Oldman only served to make these shortcomings more noticeable and discordant. Think Terminator 3 - its basically a B movie riding on the coat tails of its predecessors.