Nolan is one lucky filmmaker, always enjoying big box office and critical acclaim while most of his movies/stories are -for the sake of intellectuality- overly structured, making them dry, unsubtle and artificial. As an audience, you end up watching it as a series of moving pictures (literally.) Thus you're emotionally distant... So far Nolan as a filmmaker has the same effect on my face as a decent amount of Botox injection would have. Whereas movies are and should be about making you feel some sort of emotion. They should make you care about the characters. I'm not gonna get into his technical side as a filmmaker. And I definitely don't think that's where he lacks. His problem is much more simpler yet a fundamental one. The screenplay. To have a moving script, you really need to let it go at some point. If you intellectualize it too much, in other words, if you over do it, you'll end up with poor dialogues where characters will just say what you want them to say, not what they would say naturally. When I was watching the movie I could almost picture Nolan and his brother arguing about what the cat woman SHOULD say etc. That's usually not a good sign. It means it lacks credibility in my eyes and from that point on I don't care what happens to the "hero." It just breaks my heart to see films like this and the Avengers have much higher ratings than, say, All About Eve.