There's a reliable sturdiness and craft to all of these movies - they're reliably good. This one's another thoroughly solid entry in the series (and the first I've seen on a big screen), and though it suffers a bit from 'middle film' syndrome - a surfeit of exposition and picking up of existing threads, and not enough action - it's still more than involving enough. Plot developments continue to come as complete surprises to me (those that aren't telegraphed a mile away, that is), which I suspect adds a fair bit to the experience.
(w/ M)
