Just one observation...

Rating: 2/10 (30 July 2012)

Chris Nolans movies are always entertaining, well directed but ultimately really gimmicky.
Gathering massive plot holes for the sake of grandiose set pieces and always (even with Inception and Memento) he's also seemingly totally absent in the editing room where at least the most ridiculous ones could've been smoothed out.
There were plenty in The Dark Night Rises, but the one that really stuck with me on this one was the hole-in-ground prison where Batman is held and Bane hails from. Conceptually it's a great idea, but Nolan botches it completely by showing us basically a scaled version of a large dwell.
Does he really expect us to believe that these prisoners are so ridiculously inept they spent decades in this place without prison guards and not coming up with ways to build even a common ladder? They've got the rope set up halfway which does seem to suggest that the guards don't give a rats ass.
And there must guards or some sort of irregular maintenance since they've just got to eat and presumably more prisoners get put in. Just a few establishing shots of how these prisoners stay alive would have done so much more for story than including "cat woman" (why does she wear the cat ears and the mask on and off again?).
For goodness sake these people would have built a god damn staircase using every possible material within the prison cell. Or manufacture spikes to climb the wall or just about anything real people would do in that kind situation instead on resorting to dumb ass chimpanzee like chanting every time somebody tries to escape. People escaped from Alcatraz and they just didn't sit them on the shore practically teasing them to have a go with a homemade raft.
For the filmmakers all the effort it would have taken is to have made the passage like 8 times deeper and let's say slippery with occasional prison guards. Nolan just doesn't need to be bothered and his movies keep getting more and more silly.