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I thought the ending was pretty obvious from the moment they talked about the fact that the autopilot didn't work. That and Alfred's wish, really gave the end away. I didn't see much point is bringing Robin in without Batman either. Either Wayne has what Alfred wanted or he doesn't and will come back. If he comes back then Alfred's wish is lost and there's a point to Robin. If he doesn't there's no point in introducing Robin, can you imagine a film with just Robin!

First, I didn't like the conflict with Alfred. I guess the only reason that was done to bring Batman down even further but imho the movie is very lacking just because I thought Alfred - when not bitching about the Batman business - and Batman had very good interaction and the movie is that much poorer for getting rid of Alfred so early on.

So technologically....in the first he gets all the cool standard batman stuff. In the second he gets some more and his cool mobil phone sonar thingy, makes a cool extraction stunt etc. etc. In this one...he gets a batwing which is really really ugly. (On that note, imho it is extremely noticable in this movie that his bike and the thumblers are only cheap plastics. The way those guns are wiggling around....you wouldn't hit a thing with those. Maybe you don't see it in the previous ones because it's always dark but boy..they appeared cheap.)

Batman...oh what happened to you. Starts as a cripple. (Which was way overdone. Fixing the limp is one thing. Magically fixing nonfunctioning ellbows and shoulders, like the Doctor says is a bit of a stretch...) Get's slightly better. Promptly gets his shit kicked out of him with hardly one cool scene inbetween. But that is ok, the hero first has to hit the rock bottom of the pit (literally). Has a Rockyesque moment in the pit. Surley now it's finally time for him to you know RISE as the title suggest.....or just use cop-cannonfodder while he himself gets in a poorly choreographed bar-fist-fight with Bane. Oh he seems to win this one...finally a moment to cheer our hero..oh wait he get's stabbed...well at this point you know the movie is pretty much over for him. The rest from there on was pretty much standard, without suspense, without surprises, pretty much standard going through the motions stuff. Bombs about to blow. Hero flies it in the sunset. Bomb goes off. Everybody sad. Oh look, Hero survived somehow.
My point is that the movie takes its sweet time to get the Dark Knight to Rise again, which imho is a good thing. As soon as he escapes the pit one is ready to cheer him on and I fully expected him to do some really cool Batman Begins, The Dark Knight stuff......only to see one fistfight. (Heck..Bud Spencer and Terence Hill had far more amusing ones at that... )

And what about Catwomen? Again...she is not "bad". Just utterly....boring and forgettable. So they hardly use her as eye-candy altough they could have, she sure is pretty. That's a good thing imho. (Altough for christs sake Hollywood...feed thy womenfolk. Another movie where a 90 pound heroine kicks the shit out of guys three times her weight. Now I know, martial arts magically makes us all equal ...but even so I'd prefer a trim and fit look to a starved one). But they don't do much else with here either. There is zero chemistry between her and batman and altough she kills Bane and does important stuff for the plot....I almost have already forgotten about her, just an uninteresting, bland character imho.