Wow, I LOVED the first two Nolan Batman's. But what happened this time?

Either unfinished writing of details or poor editing - either way, as the viewer I felt like there were so many gaps in the final product that I was constantly trying to figure out what just happened (did the DVD skip or did they just trim those details?). Kind of like watching cliff notes of a movie - the backbone of the story was there but they skipped the extra details that make for good storytelling and character development.

I'm not much of a superhero movie guy. Maybe this one is for those guys. I loved Batman Begins for that reason - not a typical superhero movie, substance first style and bombast second. Great character development, good storytelling, believable characters, etc.

I think on this one, Nolan and company went full Hollywood instead of movie-making first. I get there were theme's he was trying to incorporate, but I feel like the way they shoved the theme's in made the whole thing feel like a contrived mish-mosh with a sequence of cool bits rather than a good story with continuity.

Props to JG Leavitt and his character. His character and storyline was the lone highlight for me. Anne Hathaway did a good job acting but her character was a bit TOO contrived and her character was one of the ones with the biggest gaps.

All that being said, it's not so much that this is a terrible movie, just not a very good one and definitely not what I expected from the involved parties in the writing and directing department.