Nolan sometimes has this tendency of making every scene feel like it grasps the Oscar statuette and when that feeling appears there is clearly something wrong, whether it's the actual writing or execution I don't know.

Batman Begins and particularly The Dark Knight very rarely if ever had that issue to me. One was so invested in the characters and dialogues that the movie wasn't just a movie, it was the psyche merging itself with a work of drama.

While there are scenes in The Dark Knight Rises that are well made, they also seem cobbled together with the rest of the movie in a way that gives me a sense of clumsiness or awkwardness. There were a few of those scenes in Batman Begins in the second act in my opinion but those were largely overshadowed by an otherwise immersive experience.

I'm not pretending to be completely objective about this since immersion is also a matter of where one is personally in the moment with all of ones prior knowledge, experiences and just unconscious unknown biases and personality quirks.

But I've seen this movie several times now and it still disappoints me greatly. My mind just cannot make sense of this movie in a way that is satisfying and it hurts a little when I liked the prior movies so much.

I don't feel as invested in the Bruce Wayne character anymore, the great Christian Bale who honesly blew me away in the first movie (and was decent in the second). There is some material here that should make Bruce as interesting as in the first movie but no, to me that interest doesn't appear.

Bane played by Hardy, great acting and some cool action scenes but the finale felt like an anticlimax.

I also hate to say it but Bale's open mouth in the Batman suit started to become distracting here....

There is sense of that this movie is made to impress rather than simply tell a story and that to me wasn't the point with the first two, although the first one had some annoying dumbing down for audience scenes in the second act.

I should have more to say since the movie was packed with strands of dramatic storylines but I'm ending it here.

I rather imagine that this never happened and that there were only two Batman movies made by Nolan.