The Dark Knight Rises

After a few days to think about the movie, and in light of the people in Aurora who died to see it, it seems like bad form to say this but, here goes: this movie doesn’t make any sense. The plot and the timelines don’t track, the motives of the villain, Bane, are foggy, and the villainous plan is terribly flawed. In The Dark Knight, the Joker had some flawed plans too, but he was crazy and he was trying to produce some large-scale joke-shop trickery. Bane, who sounds like a cross between Darth Vader and Tim Curry, isn’t named “the Joker”, so his plans can’t be big jokes. They need to serve some purpose. And when all the twists come to light, it’s way too easy to deconstruct the plan and say, “What the fuck?? What did he WANT all this time?” Nevertheless, there are some epic, bone-chilling action scenes and a very good ending, so it’s still worth seeing, even if the plot has holes you could drive ten batmobiles through.