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I don't think see any plotholes in Dark Knight Rises except things that don't really matter or are rather explainable to all except the most unattentive of viewers. Actually I think the film holds its own well enough against the The Dark Knight. Tom Hardy's Bane is every bit as compelling and show stealing as Heath Ledger's Joker. His speech before Blackgate Prison on the truth about Harvey Dent and calling on Gothamites to revolt against the city's elites is perhaps the single best speech in the entire franchise. It brings to head all the issues boiling up since Batman Begins: the intense corruption of the city's elites, its links with the criminal underworld, the acute poverty of inner city Gotham and the desperation faced by many. Rachel Dawes warned about it and it was brought up again in Dark Knight. Its a backdrop to the whole situation in the trilogy which serves as a ticking time bomb until explodes in the third movie with the Bane's Gotham soldiers and League followers storming the rich apartments and hotels, dragging out the rich, putting them on trial and executing them en masse. Bane's speech really brings it full circle, highlighting how easily the city's divisions were exploited by the city's enemies for their own ends. Plus I loved Anne Hathaway's Catwoman.The ending of TDKR was so beautiful. They couldn't have done it any other way.

Needless to say The Dark Knight is the greatest comic book movie ever made.

Batman Begins gets too much hate if only because its next to these two giants. But it lit the fuse for this masterpiece. That alone earns it praise, among other things. Its a well told beautiful Batman origin story with perfect pacing.

Treat this trilogy not as three separate movies but as an epic. With a beginning, middle and end.