An utter disappointment. Did Nolan direct this?

Rating: 1/10 (16 December 2012)

I am a HUGE fan of both Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. I believe that they are both stunning works of cinema. I also believe that The Dark Knight Rises was good, but not Dark Knight trilogy good. Not Nolan good. Not by a long shot.
I saw Rises at midnight, and I loved it. Of course, when you're looking forward to a film for 4 years and you're at the midnight showing, you're not looking at the movie from a critical standpoint. You're just sitting back and enjoying the epicness of it all. It wasn't until my 2nd and 3rd viewings that I saw the many plot holes in this lackluster film.
This will contain spoilers from this point on.
My first gripe is with Gordon's decision to send all 3,000 of Gotham City's cops underground. Alright, you can twist it however you want, sending every single police officer in the city to such an isolated location is just STUPID. End of story.
Another gripe I have is when Fox starts the reactor for Bane. Why did he not flood the chamber instead? Wouldn't that be the smarter thing to do? He would have saved Gotham City right there.
Another gripe is the 'Bane's Prison/Hell' scene. I don't know where he is, but it certainly isn't anywhere in the United States. How does he get such good television reception from Gotham City? And the golden question: how the hell does he get back...and how the hell does he KNOW how to get back? A last gripe (this may or may not be a plothole, I may be a little TOO critical with this point) how does nobody recognize Wayne in Italy? It was said in the first movie, Wayne is known everywhere. He had to go deep, deep, deep into Asia to disappear. I highly doubt Italy is a country that is unaware of Wayne.
From a director that pays such great attention to detail, this movie was the exact opposite. I know what you're saying. "If those things didn't happen, then other things in the movie couldn't happen." How about they do something that WOULD happen and not something dumb, and then go from there? A perfect example of a work like that - the original series "Breaking Bad". It follows logical events that may or may not go along with the storyline, and then go from there. So there are no stupid moments, no plot holes. Just...great writing and direction. And that's what TDKR needed.