If you think of this as a trilogy conclusion, it's not bad at all.

Rating: 10/10 (13 July 2015)

I think this movie deserves the fanbase the dark knight (previous chapter) has. Still there's quite some hate for this, which can be explained by one thing: its bondage with Batman Begins. you can seriously skip the dark knight and get to this without the need of explaining anything. The movie explains what happened in the dark knight.
There's quite a lot of symbolism and important stuff in this story that many ones forget about or didn't like here, such as (MILD SPOILERS START) the prison pit being a bigger version of the pit from Batman Begins
One thing that I particularly liked in the story was Bane's picture you discover at the end, which actually makes you have a pity for him. Together with the final plot twist that most of Nolan films have (and haters of the movie hated), it gives a very real character, which was greatly performed by Tom Hardy. The story introduces another character that becomes of some relevance: John Blake. It seems to some people a useless character which would have been well replaced by a more extended gordon's appearance, but they seem to forget the relevance his character has in literally the last shot of the film. Catwoman's character, as depicted in the movie, might not be a photocopy of the DC character, which is not a problem for me and anyone else that isn't a die-hard comic book fan, but gives her a such behaviour that truly resembles catwoman. Finally, there's a huge problem that people have with Batman's limited screen time. In my belief, a movie should not be judged by the amount of screen time of the alias of the main character. (MILD SPOILERS END)
The last thing to praise is definitely the amazing Zimmer score.