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He blows up the city's bridges and to top that lands a right hook on Batman's jaw?īane is the least charismatic of the Batman villains, but comes close to matching Bruce Wayne and Batman in screen time. No attempt is made to account for Bane's funding and resources, and when it finally comes down to Bane and Batman going mano-a-mano during a street fight, it involves an anticlimactic fist-fight.

But this would prove little if his other plan (the nuclear annihilation of the city) succeeds.īane stages two other sensational set pieces, involving destroying the Stock Exchange and blowing up a football stadium, that seemed aimed at our society's twin gods of money and pro sports. As they face off against most of the city police force in street warfare, Bane's goal seems to be the overthrow of the ruling classes. He releases thousands of Gotham's criminals in a scenario resembling the storming of the Bastille. And although we see a good deal of Bruce Wayne, his alter-ego Batman makes only a few brief appearances before the all-out climax.īane, played by Tom Hardy in a performance evoking a homicidal pro wrestler, is a mystery because it's hard to say what motivates him. This movie is all serious drama, with a villain named Bane whose Hannibal Lecterish face-muzzle robs him of personality. I'm thinking of the over-the-top action sequences of the earlier films that had a subcurrent of humor, and the exhilarating performance of Heath Ledger as the Joker. The result, in Christopher Nolan's conclusion to his Batman trilogy, is an ambitious superhero movie with two surprises: It isn't very much fun, and it doesn't have very much Batman.