Reviews

3 stars might be a little harsh seeing as I did enjoy this film, but I enjoyed it for all the wrong reasons. Seemed like a movie made by idiots for idiots. Anyone who is mildly intelligent will find it laughable.

Where do I start, the way this film was shot was poor at best, no scene lasted longer the 3 minutes to try and achieve the same relentless pace we enjoyed from the first Taken movie. This was even worse during any action sequence where there would be about 20 different shots in a space of 30 seconds showing pretty much the same event from pointless angles.

The dialogue, so cheesy, they put in every cliché line from any action movie you can think of, one dimensional characters sounding like idiots. There was a moment in this film where Mills plugs in a USB into a LAPD computer and the computers voices says "You are currently accessing the LAPD hidden files" just in case people in the cinema missed this.

This movie treats its audience like they are slow, and I feel you actually have to be to enjoy it for what it is. Some of the actions sequences were so unrealistic even a 9 your boy would find it a push to believe let alone us adults. Poor way to end a dying trilogy. Hopefully it will now stay dead.

DKR is a solid end to what is a brilliant trilogy. Saying that though, I do feel that this film is the weakest out of the 3. Maybe Dark Knight set the bar too high for DKR.

Dark Knight rises didn't have the pace set by its predecessor neither did it have the 'epic' build up to the climax as the others had. However, in it's favour you see more rounded characters, you explore characters like Alfred and Gordon more which gives this film more heart than the other.

Also Tom Hardy gave a good performance (seeing as half his face is covered) as Bane, Anne Hathaway was an inspired choice as Catwoman, and the previous cast kept up with the standard they set in previous films.

Overall, it is a solid end to series, but it does fall 'flat' in places and doesn't carry the same menace that Dark Knight had. Like I said, good, but not great.