Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises, this year's blockbuster conclusion to his Batman trilogy, is, in ways both obvious and numerous, a bad movie. It is dramatically inert, visually indecipherable, and deeply malformed on the level of narrative. But it is all these things in a manner that is entirely consistent with the qualities, both good and bad, of Nolan's other blockbuster productions. And this makes it valuable.
James R. Douglas
November 1, 2012