This is the first movie I’ve ever lost interest and walked out on. I couldn’t wait for it to end and it just kept going. I can’t say I’ve ever felt that way before. It was like watching the extended director’s cut of your least favorite movie. It’s a 3 hour movie, not to mention the 40 minutes of ads they tac on before the movie. It was laborsome.
I will say that I’ve enjoyed all of the Batman movies to date and I did appreciate their different take on Bruce Wayne not being a pretty play boy, but a recluse. I think they aimed to make Batman as scary as he should be, but kind of missed the mark after the first few scenes.
Batman should induce serious fear in the audience, like horror movie villain type fear. Sure he doesn’t kill, but you should cringe and not want to watch how badly he’s going to hurt people kind of fear. Still waiting for someone to take Batman up to that level. Nolan was close.