================================SPOILER ALERT - This entry is a complete spoiler if you have not seen the movie, but then if you have not seen it already then you are not really a Batman or Nolan fan and you may as well read it. ==========================================
The first scene of the movie is absolutely mind blowing, a big plane on top of a small plane, people jumping out of the big plane onto the small plane and ultimately crashing the small plane, it is all very much Nolan like unbelievable unprecedented and yet looks as realistic as it ever can get. From here on it is all Dark Knight like where Bruce Wayne is lured back from leaving his dull life as a super rich eccentric billionaire to once again cleaning up the underbelly of Gotham.
The first scene where Batman shows up is quite awesome too, it happens in the middle of a chase sequence and at that point you are too busy comprehending the persona and raw magnetism of Bane, you are just not expecting Batman in that part of the movie and suddenly the lights go off in the underground motorway and the theme of the music changes from automobile sounds to BATMAN music and for the next five seconds all you hear is the cheers from the other people watching the movie along with you even more so if there are batman fanatics and fanboys around.
The music of the movie is extremely good, Hans Zimmer is at his usual best, every chase sequence, every build up, every twist and every sighting of the dark knight is accompanied with equally engrossing and apt music themes in the background. Then right around the half time of the movie is the one on one fight between Batman and Bane which again has been done very much in the "The Dark Knight" fashion. Through out the movie The Dark Knight Joker seems to be on top of things and the audience seem to think that this time around the Batman is definitely going to loose to the Joker but the vigilante always comes on top in each of those instance. Not so much with Bane, Bane is just too big and raw for the Batman, in the one on one fight Batman's supremacy is crushed to death and the body left to rot with a broken backbone. In my honest opinion this is the best scene of the movie, Nolan has put it as majestically and as "dark knightly" as possible.
Up until the end of the scene of the game of American football everything is well thought, well written, well planned and well executed just the usual Nolan way. But that is when the dark knight movie from Nolan ends and Batman from DC Comics begins and of course it gets all shitty and childish. A nuclear bomb/reactor of the size of a car, batman and bane cheap-fighting on the streets in broad daylight, Gordon running behind trucks like a Bollywood movie, are you freaking kidding me. All of it seems so lame, so shallow and so NOT Dark Knight like. It is like suddenly some dumbass from the studio started making the movie instead of the mighty and the great. The ending is even more pathetic, it seems to be written for one and one purpose only, so that DC Comics and the the movie studio can make more movies and mint more money. Nolan I am begging on my knees please release an alternate ending in the DVDs/Blu-Ray of TDKR.
Nolan's movies have one particular aspect about their endings, they will make you think "Oh fack, now I will have to watch it again". Not so with TDKR, I have already seen it twice and even on the second watch I did not find anything new, to be honest after the Bane and Batman fight scene I felt the movie was such a drag, though to be fair to Hans Zimmer just the background score is enough to keep you glued to your seats till the very end of credits.
In all I am not sure of the word extremely but I am sure of the word disappointed for at least the last quarter of TDKR.
First 3/4 Good to Amazing
Last 1/4 Disappointing to Lame.
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