Movie Review: 'Dark Knight' doesn't deliver

It’s entirely possible that I’ve had my fill of superhero movies this summer.
After all, I’ve seen both “The Avengers” (fun and entertaining) and “The Amazing Spider-Man” (better than the other recent Spidey incarnation) since school let out.
So maybe, just maybe, I caught “The Dark Knight Rises” with superhero burnout — kind of like trying to stuff that last turkey sandwich into your craw five days after Thanksgiving.
But of the final installment of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, I have this to say: “meh.”
Don’t get me wrong, even this final chapter, which starts off with a bang and ends with a whimper, is still better than all of the 1990s Batman movies with the possible exception of “Batman Returns” (the second one with Michael Keaton … I have trouble keeping those straight, too).
Of the three movies in Nolan’s series, this was truly the only one I was looking forward to. I largely ignored “Batman Begins” when it came out in 2005 and had no interest in “The Dark Knight” in 2008, but was dragged to it by my wife — who is a big Heath Ledger fan — to see Ledger’s posthumous Academy Award-winning portrayal of the Joker .

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