THE DARK KNIGHT RISES: SNEAK PREVIEW

The first scene of the next Batman movie plays before select screenings of Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.  You get an introduction to one of the new villains, Bane.  And?

Bane is very hard to understand, what with the mask and accent.  He is easier to understand in the trailer.  Hmm...  Maybe he'll be a little easier to understand in the movie.  Maybe not.  He could be an iconic incomprehensible villain just like Jeff Bridges's iconic incomprehensible hero Rooster Cogburn in True Grit.

This film will be, like the other two, global in scope.  It will also feature some damn impressive IMAX action sequences.

You get a cameo from one of the co-stars of a current beloved HBO series who was also one of the co-stars of another now ended beloved HBO series.

I predict an epidemic of bat-fever in America.