Direction and soundtrack do provide some suspense, I get it, still the screenplay is simply ridiculous. The story is so immature and convulted, abounding in half-baked solutions, with no sense for pacing or build-up. Heroes and villains are always in the right spot at the right time, even CEOs are right at hand to do the next thing and there is always a bad guy subordinate, failling to kill off one of the heroes instantly, pushing him or her around instead until another hero emerges from God knows where and clears the situation. The only decent scene is Batman's humiliation by Bane, the directors took their time with it and it wasn't even melodramatic, but in the end Wayne is dozing in a not too shabby bed, Bane sitting at its edge like a relative, which was comical. The armed occupation of the stock exchange promised to be a interessting situation, yet it is wasted as an in-and-out-raid to manipulate some data core, which seemed strange to me. I never understood the role of Daggett and Stryver, they are completly redundant, even more than Catwoman. The movie is nearly three hours long and never bothers to explain anything properly.

Therefor some questions remain: How exactly did the child climb out of the pit? How did it manage to make that decisive jump to the next platform that grown-ups according to legend always failed to perform (in one case conviently shortly after Bruce Wayne was brought there)? Why did the blind foreign prisoner start to speak English all of a sudden? Why has never anybody suspected Bruce Wayne to be "the Batman", since he evidently secluded himself from any public affairs the same time the Dark Knight disappeared? So enough money was siphoned from the unattended corporation to build fancy new weapons further on while the orphan foundation was shut down and Bruce Wayne is okay with that? For what reason did Bane allow the supply of the trapped police officers with food and water and therby preserve the only potential counter force to his rule, when he actually intended to wipe out the city for good? To sustain the hope of the people? What a weird, unconvincing move which backfired big time. But who could ever be so stupid and so hysterical to order every single police unit of a metropolis to the underground in the first place? How did it come that all the officers after a months long detention in the sewers wear unblemished shiny uniforms and neat haircuts, apart from their speedy en masse re-adaption of eyesight? (Because they are police, stupid) How could the cops stormed Banes' headquarter in an open street and were not mowed down by all the automatic weapons of their enemies? How could that attack with two parties bristling with guns ever deculminate in a mass brawl like some peasants on a village green? Who won and how? How could Bruce Wayne return to cordoned off Gotham from another continent in such a short time? I think he was broke? How unspicious were all these men of fighting age promenading in deserted, clean streets, decidedly looking like agents while tracking down the bomb? Why did Miranda play their game after all rather than to arrange their swift execution? How could Commissioner Gordon (the guy who ordered all the police to the same area) walk so easily to Foley's surprisingly modest home from that secret meetingpoint that his deputy had preferred to avoid? When Gordon was sentenced to Exile / Death, did Batman knew in advance the Commissioner's exact path over the ice in the dark, so he could dispense the incendiary composition and put the flare right before his feet? How did Miranda manage to take over the wheel of the truck and get rid of the driver's body at full speed?

And besides does this movie really deserve that average rating of more than eight (!) stars?