The Dark Knight Rises is a film at odds with itself. The action is polished and involving, but the characters taking part in it seem hollow; it has intense political themes to talk about, but it never follows through with showing us how it affects people; it has a lot of dead weight in its running time, but, at the same time, seems rushed.
No partnership has raised so many conflicting feelings than the one between David Goyer, the entertaining but hammy writer behind the Blade films, and Christopher Nolan, the moody yet showy filmmaker. The Dark Knight Rises - the culmination of....