So the guys at Empire saw the prologue to The Dark Knight rises and reviewed it here.They say it's pretty darn awesome. I guess that threequel curse may not come to pass.

Can we sum the footage up in a word? No. A sound? “Woooargh!” Launching with Gary Oldman’s Commissioner Gordon remembering an old friend we met in The Dark Knight, it then segues into the main event. A miniature thrill-ride in and of itself, the prologue features some stunning camera work (clearly Nolan felt like applying some of the tricks and style he mastered on Inception) and the opening sequence, which gives us our first look at Bane (Tom Hardy), comes off like a cross between a Bond movie and everything we’ve come to love about Nolan’s Bat-universe. Highlights include one very confused CIA agent, a truly clever attack, superb stuntwork, some threatening words from Mr Bane himself and a lot of clues about his links to the bigger story.
After the prologue came a brief sizzle reel burst of shots from later in the film, which gave us proper looks at Anne Hathaway in full costume, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and a certain wonderful toy. The major feeling we were left with is that we want to see more, and we want to see it right now.

Almost every person who saw it had his mind blown away BUT the biggest complaint was Bane's voice,based on the description you'd think Hardy is even harder to understand than Bale(yikes).But Nolan thankfully acknowledged it so i'm not worried.

Yeah, I can't remember who I read that reviewed it but I think it was on /Film. They said that Bane's voice is hard to understand with the mask thing on. I feel this is something that can easily be fixed in post so I'm not really worried. I just wish there was a closer "true" IMAX theatre than the one in Dearborn, MI. That's 3 hours from me. If I didn't need the money I would spend on gas, I'd go, but sadly Christmas is approaching and that is good gift money. Can't wait for it to go online though.

@GamerGeek360 said:

Yeah, I can't remember who I read that reviewed it but I think it was on /Film. They said that Bane's voice is hard to understand with the mask thing on. I feel this is something that can easily be fixed in post so I'm not really worried. I just wish there was a closer "true" IMAX theatre than the one in Dearborn, MI. That's 3 hours from me. If I didn't need the money I would spend on gas, I'd go, but sadly Christmas is approaching and that is good gift money. Can't wait for it to go online though.

If Bane's voice is difficult to understand in a cinema then i cannot even imagine it's state in a bootleg.WB won't release it online,which is why personally i won't see it(would'nt mind a written description though).

Batman:gaabmDarkklaKnightaargh

Bane:mualehbrreakaop.

Audience:WTF?

Banes voices is awful, watching this preview was amazing the stunt work had me grinning and my jaw dropping. But when bane spoke it completely took me out of the moment

BB