The Dark Knight Rises: Gentlemen, Start Your Engines
Matthew Lickona 2:32 p.m., May 24
Wrongly sent to prison, a cop (Sam Worthington) breaks out, then pretends to risk suicide on a skyscraper ledge as a media and police distraction so that his kid brother and the bro’s Latina hottie can complete a nearby (and highly implausible) heist. This makes him a folk hero to voyeurs yet never seems quite necessary as a robbery decoy. There is rigged suspense, a big diamond, and a born-to-be-hated billionaire (a gaunt Ed Harris). Asger Leth’s increasingly idiotic thriller is a stink bomb. With Elizabeth Banks, Jamie Bell, Edward Burns, Kyra Sedgwick. 2012.
— David Elliott
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