Is The Dark Knight Really Just a Big Mess?

One of the biggest criticisms of director Christopher Nolan is that he can't direct action, that his staging of action is at best pedestrian and at worst messy.

Now one film critic, Jim Emerson, has taken it upon himself to break down one of the most famous action sequences from Nolan's The Dark Knight to show why he believes it's a big mess as an action film.

Check out his video analysis below -- yes, please actually watch it rather than simply scream that he's wrong -- and then sound off in the Comments whether you agree with him, at least see his points, or (politely please) disagree:

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Freeman, Banks Give Voice to Lego Movie

Oscar winner Morgan Freeman, who played Lucius Fox in Nolan's Batman trilogy, will once again cross paths with the Caped Crusader onscreen ... this time in LEGO form.

Deadline reports that both Freeman and The Hunger Games' Elizabeth Banks have been added to the voice cast of Warners' animated LEGO Movie. They join Chris Pratt and Will Arnett, who play the movie's protagonist and a LEGO version of Batman, respectively.

No word on Banks' role, but Freeman's character is said to be named "Vitruvius," which also just so happens to be the name of an ancient Roman author of a multi-volume work on architecture (a fitting subject for LEGO).

The movie will be directed by 21 Jump Street's Phil Lord and Chris Miller. Lord recently described the film as the story of "a young man who doesn't have a creative bone in his body and [he] has to always build things from the instructions. ... He's an 'instructions worker.' In the LEGO city, they build buildings, and it turns out in this universe it's illegal to build apart from the instructions. So what he finds out is that he's actually [a] descendant from these like super creative Jedi-type people who are called 'Master Builders' and he has been charged with saving the universe from being frozen together by an evil bad guy, so over the course of the movie he has to unlearn all of that lame-o, uncreative stuff and learn how to build without all of the instructions in order to save the universe."

The LEGO Movie opens February 28, 2014.

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