It was an entertaining 165 minutes with some great twists, but the plot was TOO COMPLICATED. I appreciate Nolan's attempt to smarten up the franchise, but Batman as "War and Peace" (or should I say "A Tale of Two Cities) was simply too much. I'm sitting here now trying to reconstruct what happened to determine if everything was really necessary or if anything was contradictory. I can't tell without re-seeing it. (I guess that's the point.) If I do rent it, I'll watch it with subtitles because Batman's murmuring and Bane's Goldfinger accent weren't easy to understand. So many plotlines were happening at once that I found myself caring for almost none of them. If "Batman: The Dark Knight" was like a movie and a half, "The Dark Knight Rises" was like three films made all at once.