[Paladin]

Checked out "The Dark Knight Rises," which I saw once in the theaters & more or less forgot about until now.

Upon rewatching- wow, there is SO MUCH of this movie that does not work. At all. Its actually kinda terrible.

*Bruce Wayne acts like a total idiot for most of the film. He has no backup plans once his safe is opened and identity is stolen and despite being totally bankrupt is still able to get back to Gotham from halfway across the world?
*What exactly is Selina Kyle's motivation? Why does she want to start over (I know they give hints that she's in trouble somehow but hinting's not enough).
*How exactly does Bane SURVIVE with that damn thing on his face? Should'nt he have starved to death years ago?
*NOBODY in Gotham put together that Bruce Wayne and Batman were gone for the same amount of time AND showed up again at roughly the same time?!
*How does the city stay almost perfectly clean for five months when cut off from the rest of the world?

*What does Talia bring to the story? The endgame is still the same with or without her contribution.
*Ditto John Blake. What purpose does he really have besides blatant low-level fanservice? A successor for Batman isn't a bad idea but making up some guy with the coincidental first name "Robin" just seems dumb.
*So, Christopher Nolan insists on a completely realistic setting and won't use most of the good comic villains because its "too weird" but its OK that his Batman can have a lengthy conversation with the ghost of Ra's Al Ghul? And it can't just be Batman's subconscious because it leads to information that he couldn't possibly have figured out on his own by that point!!!