It’s good for people to reflect on some matters, but I have two objections to what appears to be too severe a judgement... The first is that the whole concept of Batman-type superheroes since the mid 80s has been inherently fascist; due process and presumption of innocence are simply ignored, undue force is used to apprehend suspects, bodily harm is unlawfully inflicted by self-appointed keepers of what’s right and good, and no “hero” has to answer for their actions. We readers accept it not out of naiveté (or a lack or moral compass!) but because we cut creators some slack in their modern retelling of what are often Wild West stories, in which a lone vigilante has to take the law into their own hands because no one else is available to enforce it.

Also, the movie made it clear that global surveillance was an evil great enough for Julius Fox to threaten to quit over it, and Bruce relented.

The Nolan Bat-flicks are barely competent action movies. As Batman movies they are a bust. The fact that they are increasingly bad with each new installment is sad.

They're lacking as Batman films. However, I consider Dark Knight one of the greatest crime films of all time, almost on par with The Godfather. Dislike the Batman, but love the film.

As for Dark Knight Rises, I adored it when I saw it in theaters and am afraid to go back and watch it again for fear that it will actually suck terribly in hindsight.

I'm...I'm speechless.  I mean good for you.  But...wow!  

I quite liked The Dark Knight Rises!

I’m not a Batman fan, so I don’t mind if the Nolan character is not true to the spirit of the old comic-book; but simply considered as the concluding part of the Nolan trilogy, it works really well.

The Dark Knight Rises is not just another adventure of Batman, it is the end of the journey begun in the first film. Bruce Wayne is now barely holding in one piece with duct tape and stubbornness due to his dangerous career choices, and in agreement with any proper hero’s journey he must now go through a terrible gauntlet, know defeat, and come back from the pits of despair. After this instalment, any fourth Nolan Batman movie would have been as superfluous and odd as a fifth opera in Wagner’s tetralogy. When the story’s done, it’s done!

Plus, Bane is hilarious. What a great comic-book movie villain. His fake debonair attitude, his funky voice, his weird political agenda (what is it, a Robespierre-Nietzsche-Marx salad?) and his matter-of-fact brutality all contribute to make him more interesting (if less visually striking) than the Joker.

Yeah, the plot about an island cut off from the mainland for a year is hard to swallow. But so is the plot of most super-hero films, and this one does not colour outside the accepted lines.

I would watch it again with confidence, shaxper! 

It was a very interesting interview with Hamm (loved the whole issue).

I'd love to see them do a book about the making of the movie, but a really in depth one, on par with the JW Rintzler Making of Star Wars books. Something where they compare all the different drafts of the film.