Dark Knight Rises *there be spoilers here, seriously don't click if you don't want spoilers*

I enjoyed it , I'd give the movie an a+

Bane - I understand the Bane criticisms, but simple question to the Bane critics, would you rather have Joel Shumacher's version of Bane? While there were differences here, I think this Bane was fairly close to the comic version.

Catwoman - w/o a doubt, Anne Hathaway is the diffinitive Catwoman

John Blake - the name obviously meant as a curve ball, but JGL would make a crediable Robin and successor to Batman. Despite being a pastashio of at least three Robins, came off as very crediable, overall I liked John Blake, if they continue the iteration with JGL, I could see him as either Nightwing or Batman II( its clear he'll succede Bats, buts not clear under what identity

Miranda - there were some hints about her, so that part wasn't a complete suprise. What dissappointed me here was with all the build up, with her being the kid who escaped the whole, I would've expected someone tougher.

Ending, overall I liked the ending

Bruce and Selina together makes sense in a way the end with Bruce being presumed dead and everything mirrors how the first movie began, I also have no doubt he had made arrangements for just such situation, and isn't living in the poor house.

Well, he didn't leave them entirely to their own devices. He did leave them someone to take up the mantle of Batman.

That said, there were a couple of story threads that were either tied off at the wrong place, or left dangling.

The main one was the money issue. We last see him so poor that the electricity is cut off at Wayne Manner, it was seems to be within a day of him losing all his cash.

Just how is it that he and Selena are well off enough to live their new lives. Has she suddenly changed her ways and stopped being a theif?

While it's implied, it is never flat out stated to the Selena character that her actions are as much to blame for what's going on in Gotham (near the end). Why was she so willing to leave (holly? don't remember the character's name from the comic and it was never stated in the movie). Why were they friends?

If Bruce is leaving "robin" to take up the mantle of Batman, how can he without the resources of Wayne Enterprises at his disposal?

My only assumption is that when Miranda took over control of the company, her infusion of funds is going to keep it going. With Fox still there to helm the company and R&D still in existence, that somehow Fox and Blake will end up working together.

The movie would've been just fine without the inclusion of the other cop who died at the end and Selena's friend. But outside of these nitpicks I found the film to be really good.

The pacing was a little fast, but that was because we had so many characters to follow. We never got to sit with some of the heavy moments when they came and quickly went to the next scene which kind of robbed those scenes of their weight.

Just got back from the movie and I enjoyed it. Not the best but not the worst.

First off, Batman isn't dead. The auto pilot was fixed.
Second off, how did Robin get the coordinates to the bat cave? Did Batman KNOW he was going to die?
Third, Christian Bale himself has stated that if the script was good he would return.

What does all that mean?

First, the reactor was stated to be a fusion reactor. One that apparently a single scientist figured out how to turn into a neutron bomb. So, within the context of the film, this isn't something that was easily weaponized. Capable of being weaponized yes, which is the source of Wayne's trepidation, but the improbability of that occurence outweighed its benefits well enough that he had it made.

He still took plenty of precautions, Its location was secret, heavily fortified, and beneath an entire river.

It was a plot device and one I found no more difficult to swallow than a man dressing up as a bat to fight crime.

Alfred's reaction at the end has me believing it isn't his imagination at all.

He saw Bruce, they nodded to each other, and he left.

That's what he wanted. If it was his imagination I think it would of kept with generic girl we saw when he first talked about his wish, not Selena, and I don't think he would of left as he did.

As for could Bruce and Selena settle down. Who's to say they did? I get the feeling, that Bruce still had money and the two of them traveling about they're likely to run into some petty crooks to relive those exciting moments on.

In Nolan's universe Batman didn't fight that many serious criminals. He fought mostly street thugs.

And that left him battered and beaten according to his doctor.