People, people. Please stop with "This movie was so awesome!", oh I have to believe this movie was so good, and I have to repeat it because of the tragedy associated with it. It was not that good.(period) My bottom line for critiquing a movie is entertainment value. when I see a movie, I want to be entertained. I don't want to be preached too. I don't want political messages sandwiched and purposely slid into the creases of the movie. I don't want to be made to feel guilty about the environment or some filmmakers, or the Hollywood types personal agenda.

So, based solely on the entertainment factor, I was disappointed. The first problem I had was with "Bain". Really? Was this guy kicked in the nuts? what was the deal with his Vienna boys choir voice? Whenever he talked I half expected him to break out into a monologue of Shakespeare. A villain should have some fear factor. It was so bad I was pre-occupied with thoughts of - what pro wrestler did they hire to play this guy?, and who's voice did they use to dub over this goon?, and why doesn't it match up? Make me afraid of this guy!!!!! Secondly, the special effects were......sad. When the highlights of the special effects are the motorcycle turning 90 degrees and having the wheels flip over?.....Really? Usually excellent special effects can hide some deficiencies in story and plot. Was I missing something? Next, there were excellent actors but they had nothing to work with. Lets do 500 really quick scenes and not spend any time exploring anything. Lets spend all the plot capital on Bain, and Bruce trying to climb out of a hole? And then have the the men in the bottom of the hole chant, "rise, rise, rise, rise." How genius! Now we can title the movie " The dark night.......Rises" Oh awesome, that makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. The title makes so much sense now.

Lets also write a really bland part for "Robin" and have him become the scout leader or some kind of weird babysitter for the orphan boys.(can't wait for the next installment with creepy and other than masculine Robin.) The gal that played Catwoman? Didn't work for me. Couldn't take my eyes off her freaky collarbone that the pearl necklace perched eerily on. I think I could stack books on that thing.

Obviously four years was long enough for Nolan to lose what ever magic he had early on in this trilogy. I guess when the first one was so awesome, it's inevitable that it's going downhill from there. I was not entertained comparative to the amount of money spent. Save yourself twenty bucks and wait for it on DVD! You can put a label on a pile of pooh, and call it batman whatever, but it's still a pile of pooh. Unless you drank the, oh there was a tragedy so that immediately makes this movie awesome - kool-aide. The real tragedy is that i saw this movie on purpose!