Does a lot of injustice to the batman personalities involved

Rating: 4/10 (26 July 2012)

I went into this movie expecting another Nolan masterpiece. Before I write my review however I need to make it perfectly clear that Nolan makes good movies and i tend to enjoy his movies for what they are.
No matter how much I try though I find his third installment to be the weakest batman of the 3.
We start the story 8 years after the dark knight "killed" Harvey dent. But thanks to the Dent law crime in Gotham is almost all gone (how a law could do that i do not know). But the impression is given that the law is almost considered a form of oppression.
We find Bruce Wayne to have a bad knee and to be living as a recluse wondering openly what his live with Rachel would have been like. However with the coming of bane we suddenly need our hero needs to come out of retirement because of the actions of Selina Kyle (who is NEVER called catwoman!).
My biggest problem with this movie is that it used bits and pieces of different batman comics to make a story. The famous bane breaking batman scene is in the movie. But it loses much of its impact. Knightfall was about bane knowing who batman was and wanting to break his soul AND body. Only when batman was mentally and physically drained from all his hardships did bane decide to fight batman purely to destroy him and who he was.
There was no such thing here, bane just managed to get him into a room with batman and he kicked the snot out of him. However the powerful scene where batman gets his back "dislocated" is immediately destroyed by the fact some random guy can just punch Batman's back straight like it is some bend piece of iron that needs to smashed straight.
We then get a basic rockyish theme where batman is training while bane takes over the city. But sadly where I felt bane was not the bane I know and while I do agree that Nolan needs creative freedom the way he handled the obvious spoiler of Talia al Ghul is detestable.
We are introducted to a raving lunatic who wants nothing more than Bruce to die and Gotham to burn.
My entire problem with this premise is that it does zero justice to the persona we known from the DC comics Talia was always conflicted because she was in Love with Bruce Wayne and was loyal to the goals of her father which meant she always had to take a side. This one on the other hand was just angry and had no soul she was there because of the sake of being there.
The way bane was portrayed is good but Ifelt they really ignored his venom addiction which makes him so strong. Now he was just a body builder with pain suppressants. And Just like Batman's knee (which apparently happened during Batman's fall in 2 at the end) why on earth where people mutilating bane in one cut scene it would have been nice to get a deeper glimpse in the persona bane rather than the few peeks.
Another perfect example of where Nolan just dropped the ball is with Alfred. He just told Bruce Wayne that he burned Rachel her letter and he was hone the next part for almost the entire movie i really felt the Rachel scene and the repercussions it had on Bruce AND Alfred should have been highlighted more. We had 3 hours but most of it was spend on excellent photography and set pieces but sadly the plot suffered for it.
If you do not know the batman persona's I listed here I am certain you will enjoy this movie for what it is. If you expect a dark knight x2 your going to sadly be disappointed.