The film editing starts off bad because Nolan listened to the complaints and caved in to alter Bane's voice for the first fourth of the film. It comes off like his voice is on a seperate audio track from the rest of the film, which is very noticeable.

The film also suffers from the same thing as Spider-man 3: too much in one film.

Bruce Wayne's attraction to Catwoman and Miranda Tate came off as incredibly rushed. Bruce Wayne's recuperation seems incredibly rushed both times. The first he's shown needing a cane and the doctor tells him he's got brain damage, leg, back problems, all this stuff. Bruce just puts on some kind of exoskeleton on his leg and is back to kick bricks into dust. Then he gets his back messed up by Bane and later some guy in prison just punches his vertebrae back into place and Bruce starts doing push ups.

Batman is shown to be blamed for killing police officers and Harvey Dent, and when the police have him surrounded, with guns drawn, he mounts his bat bike, arms the weapons systems, shoots at a truck to create a makeshift ramp and just drives off of it with the police firing a single shot.

The Talia reveal was really rushed and we don't get a sense of the corrupted sense of justice that Ra's has. Here it seems like she's just trying to blow up Gotham because it was her father's final wish. And it turns out that Bane is just going along with it because he loves her.

Officer Blake is likeable enough but kind of unneeded. I felt his reveal as Robin again, was forced.

Bruce Wayne moving past his personal pain and leaving the Batman mantle was way out of character. I know the film version differs from the comics because here, Bruce wants to fight long enough to clean up Gotham and for someone who doesn't have to resort to viginalte tactics to protect Gotham. But here all the criminals have been let loose, the Harvey Dent act may be repealed, and Wayne Enterprises is up for grabs, and yet Bruce leaves it behind to live in Europe.

That all said, the action is EXCELLENT. And the film has an abundance of great moments. As I said, Bane is great in every scene, Hathaway does a great job as Catwoman, The Bat flying around looked real, and when Talia reveals her plans to Batman, he drops the voice and Bale's acting genuinely conveys the betrayal and fright Bruce is feeling. The way the film was going I thought that they were going to hang him and Blake was going to take up the mantle.

Also the scene where Alfred tears up at the funeral was pretty sad.

It's a flawed but highly enjoyable film with some excellent performances especially by Hardy, Bale, Caine, and Hathaway.

I was pretty bored for the first half, right up until Bane took over the city. A lot of the points Gerald hits on I agree with, things like the speedy romances and ham-fisting 'Robin' in at the end. Nolan was always so adamant about not having robin, why cram it in there so clumsily right at the end?

As with DK, the villain was more interesting than the lead character. I thought it ironic that after all the hoopala with Bane's voice, I understood everything he said fine and yet there were times Batman and Gordon spoke I completely missed what they said.

I've probably got more complaints I could rattle off, but ultimately I just wasn't as entertained and I expected to be. I did like the twist with Talia because I didn't see it coming, although it was fairly obvious the woman (whose name escapes me) was going to betray Batman before the end of the film.

Maybe a 5/10. 6 if I'm feeling generous, but more likely 5 because after the opening scene I was bored until the No Man's Land stuff started.