And this is where I felt the spark disappear. Compared to its predecessors, this movie just feels more lifeless and not done to the same perfected care as the others. While there are aspects I like and moments I enjoy, there are as many where I get frustrated or just don´t care. Again, the soul is gone, the passion and the great care. It´s in no way a bad movie, but it´s flawed and disappointing.

The batman is retried but a new villain makes him come out of retirement. The incredibly strong Bane.

The sound design has some issues sometimes. It´s especially in the first half of the movie. Some sound effects are louder than spoken lines, same with the soundtrack at times, and sometimes in quite scenes, the voices are still really quiet. I don´t know what happened here. It gets less potent as the movie goes on but it is really distracting.

The soundtrack is once again very good, but something is kind of missing with James Newton Howard missing. I still think Hans Zimmer does a great job and makes memorable tracks. However, the music seems to be used rather randomly. More often than not, the score is high in power, but nothing is going on to reflect that. This happens more than once and is once again highly distracting. The same level of care but into the predecessors just isn't felt here.

The beginning of this movie fells highly rushed. Setups, romance, and the mystery seem just kind of thrown in there and up until the story changes course after a batman v Bane fight, the movie seems like it´s rushing through itself. New characters are barely introduced, and old characters like for example Gordon and Alfred can seem nearly unrecognizable from the movies before. The movie picks up though, and the second half is definitely better than the first half. The twist is really badly set up though, and on a second watch it becomes embarrassing how clear it is and how extremely manipulated you as the viewer are. That doesn't make it clever, that makes it nearly impossible to figure out. Two scenes really reveal the twist and it´s easy to pick up on, but you don´t know your looking at all.

Compared to the movies before, the acting is so much worse than this, and this is for both new and side characters. So many throwaway characters like a police extra is just doing such a poor performance it really made me think this movie was sometimes done in one take. Christian Bale as batman is once again great and he really gets to show another side to the character here through the downs. Tom Hardy plays Bane, and normally I don´t name an actor if I think they did a poor job out of respect, but I don´t know here. The voice is goofy and sometimes it works. I don´t know if I can take it serious. The interpretation and body langue of Bane is amazing though. He feels like such a big brood and an unstoppable force. Hardy really nails that. Michael Caine dose an amazing job towards the end of a movie and is once again a standout. I think Miranda was a terrible character and the actor did not elevate her. She did not get enough to work with and some of the acting is laughably bad. Selina Kyle is also in my opinion not done well here. I just don´t believe the character and the romance and feelings of that character is extremely rushed.

The movie handles a great batman story and I think it´s done interesting enough. I think narratively it isn't told well but it´s a good enough story. The movie just becomes a bit too grand for itself towards the end and it feels more like a grand superhero story than a grounded batman story. The conflicts are not set up well enough. Rising. Rich vs poor. Revenge. It´s all just kind of thrown at the viewer that, that is what the movie is about without it really being shown.

The action in this movie is pretty good though. There are some really iconic scenes here and they are all involved with the action set pieces. The batcave is also finally cool.

I just don´t feel the care with this movie. So many small aspects that aren't well done just starts to snowball and all of a sudden there are just to many flaws that I can really enjoy the movie. I think there are great aspects of the movie and it´s not a complete disaster or anything, but I expected so much more of this franchise to end on. I personally didn't get that out of this.