IndiaBennett Media.: December 2012

First director Christopher Nolan has done an intelligent job, along with his brother Jonathan on a blockbuster finale that brings back a few supervillains and makes an amazing, emotionally satisfying conclusion to his trilogy of Batman films.

The final half-hour is cleverly written. You may have seen a city trashed in many a blockbuster, but never on the scale of this film.

The flim also has the courage however superficially, with two big themes: the fear of terrorism and economic collapse.

The bad guy, Bane (Tom Hardy), is hoping to unite the oppressed masses against the capitalists and authorities who have kept them under control for so long.

A ‘people’s court’ dispenses death sentences to anyone deemed rich and unfit.

The bad news is, first, that it lasts two hours 45 minutes, unforgivable in a film that spends a long, hour getting started, despite a couple of action sequences that don’t involve any action from Batman.

When Bruce Wayne, alias Batman (Christian Bale), eventually drives to the rescue on his bike rescue, he comes as a man misunderstood by the public and higher powers as he’s still blamed for the death of Harvey Dent, the architect of the Dent Act, a piece of miracle legislation that has made Gotham Crime almost crime-free for eight years.

Batman has been in disgrace, crippled physically and by the guilt of having sacrificed his girlfriend, and is living in retirement.

The effect puts the fight back into Wayne as hes ,much to the concern of his trio of father like figures: butler Alfred (Michael Caine), chief of police Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) and technical genius Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman).

Batman’s only able-bodied ally is cop (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), who resembles his former sidekick Robin.

Batman returns and goes on to save Gotham from the clutches of Bane who he believes is the son of hos arch enemy ra's al ghul who is determined to nuclear bomb Gotham. The pair fight and it seems of course that Batman has one until the twist comes in the shape of his former girlfriend who is reveiled to be the child of ra's al ghul, however she dies trying to protect her bomb inwhich batman has to take out to sea with only seconds to spare and Gotham looks on and belive that he has perished saving the town.

Other unbelievable events include the moment Bane doesn’t kill Batman when he has the opportunity. Skeptics may also ask how it is, in the last 45 minutes, that Batman has a habit of turning up unerringly in the right place at the right time, when for the previous two hours he has been unable to do anything right.