Good as an action movie, lacked substance

Rating: 4/10 (1 August 2012)

The action scenes in The Dark Knight rises were excellent. Special effect were good, CGI was great. Michael Caine gave a great performance as usual.
Unfortunately the good points ended there for me, it would've been about a 7/10 if it wasn't for a few bits that annoyed me. I know the movie isn't supposed to be realistic but the parts that annoyed me weren't anything to do with batman himself or what he could do, just the parts which are supposed to obey real world rules...
-Spoilers- When Batman takes down one of the robbers and picks up the tablet to see that the stock market data had been stolen, the camera pans out to show literally hundreds of police cars either side of him. This just seems unlikely to me. It's very nit picky but it's where it started to annoy me.
The main annoyance for me was the ending. Where Batman flies the nuclear bomb over the sea to save everyone in Gotham city. When he begins to fly the bomb off, there's roughly a minute left on the countdown clock. (Earlier on it was stated that the bomb had a 6 mile blast radius) he then flies about slowly through the city for roughly 30 seconds before getting to the coast. Which means he has to fly 6 miles in 30 seconds (roughly) so anyone with basic mathematical knowledge will realise that to accomplish this, he would have to travel at 720mph constantly for that 30 seconds. Even then, the radiation from a nuclear bomb would kill everyone in the city anyway! I'm no genius, I never claim to be, so if I can notice plot holes this big then it really doesn't deserve such a high rating.
-spoliers end-
So it was good for the action scenes, but the plot seemed rather thrown together. Bad man wants to kill everyone (for seemingly no reason? Can't really see much motive for Bane to want to kill everyone in Gotham city) Wasn't a great deal of depth into the story. The twist was one that I didn't see coming so was clever but again it seemed laboured, no clues to it beforehand.