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The Dark Night went beyond the franchise and set the standard so high any attempt to follow is most surely a sacrilege. This film seems to know that and takes three hours trying to distance itself from that shadow of a reputation. But just like its protagonist fails to break his unhealthy attachments, set to a disturbingly dull soundtrack, the film fails to fight its own mediocracy, while accompanied by the sound of heath ledger rotaing in his grave.

I mean.. it's not very intricate in acting, or cinematography, or sound, or character development, or story telling, or the plot. It is rather compromising, very.. compromising. Everything is conceived and done in a miniature scale: times are shortened, characters are superficial and coincidence and causality is taken for granted caricaturally. All in all, the world of this film is small, mostly because the story tellers are taking a very relaxed approach to their work. It's a snow globe where your imagination must compensate, not in a good way.