The Dark Knight Rises was better than I was expected, although I have higher standards than most people on IMDb.

This film had a very difficult task living up to its predecessor, which I admit was excellent.

Christopher Nolan is one of the better directors working now, but this film just doesn't offer him much to work with. The fundamental problem is the lack of a coherent plot. This is a film which plods along, through its longer-than-necessary running time.

It appears they attempted to compensate for the lack of a good story arc by cramming as many plot devices and cameo appearances into the movie as possible.

This is certainly a much better film than "Avengers" of "Amazing Spider Man", but those movies were just trash.