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How did a film that went so right go so wrong?

The Prestige, memento and Inception, need I say more, a film CV that any director in the film industry what kill to have. All three being the creative offspring of a director, that likes to blend big budget films, with complex narrative and intriguing plot twists. Not like another certain director cough, cough Michael bay...

Following on the duck tails of Batman Begins and then The Dark Knight, we have The Dark Night Raises, with Christian Bale again playing the capped crusader. The last in what should have been Hollywood’s greatest film trilogy and the perfect way for Christopher Nolan to kiss bon voyage to the comic book world, in a memorable fashion. Instead we the viewer, where meet with the unenviable task of watching a great film dynasty, crumble in front of our eyes. Nolan had the simple task of building on what he did so well in the first two installments, but instead he tried to be to overly ambitions. In other words the guy was one on one with the keeper in the world cup final, but he got to clever and tried one too many tricks, ending up shooting the ball wide.

The dark knight rises tells the story of a fallen hero, billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne and his alter ego batman. Who has to rise up to the occasion and stop the powerful bane or in banes words “mumble muummble batman Ummm mumble” as he plots to destroy Gotham city. Not only this he, faces the aftershocks of events that proceeded from the dark knight rises, as he lost his love interest, and other the physical challenges in the form of escaping a massive hole in the ground.

There was me waiting to watch a slick, sumptuous, action packed extravaganza, instead I was meet with a preachy lecture on social commentary and the ideology behind a mask man in tight, unflattering spandex, gyrating in front of me. Coupled with the minor, insignificant detail of not being able to understand what one of the major characters in the entire film - bane played by Britain’s own Tom hardy was able to say. The dark knight rises was an excruciating watch that I wouldn't recommend, even to my worst enemies.