Bane's voice (preferred the Prologue voice, and some scenes definitely were done in post. There's this scene where Bane is on top of a Tumbler and he keeps making weird facial gestures and it just didn't match up with the dialogue. The only other issue I have is the whole "Robin" thing at the end. Did not like that.

Alfred tells Bruce the truth about the letter. We all said, "Nah, it was better left the way it was." Sure enough, the scene pops up, and it literally almost had me in tears.

I thought it started in an offbeat kind of way. Once I accepted that it was just a different film from BB and TDK then it didn't bother me anymore. Things really picked up when Selina met Bruce for the first time.

For the first 2h25m, I was smiling ear to ear (I don't smile much) and in the last 20 minutes, my jaw was on the floor. I kept thinking to myself, Nolan is actually going to kill Batman. Then it happens. The 'death' was a total gut punch, but the reveal of him being alive was even better. Deep down I was hoping he survived because I didn't want him to die.

The twist with Blake at the end was great and done in a way that wasn't corny. I'm not even a fan of Robin, but it worked for me.

Alfred was out of the film for so long I had forgotten about his story of him at the cafe and his wishes for Bruce. It made it that much more satisfying when they brought that thread back around.

Anne was fantastic as Selina, the dynamic between her and Batman is great. So glad the woman at the table with him at the end was Selina.

The film did a great job of showing Bane's brutality. He's not into mind games and conducting sociological/psychological experiments like the Joker. He just destroys anything in his way.

I would say this ending easily surpasses that of TDK and perhaps any film I've seen in terms of emotion.

Everyone's last memory of Batman will be TDK and Joker. With that in mind, Bane may be disappointing to a lot of people. But I liked it that way. It wasn't villain-centric. It was all about Bruce Wayne's journey. Also, even though TDK was a masterpiece, it didn't have the feel of a sweeping cinematic epic. It felt like an episode, albeit an amazing executed one. BB and TDKR felt epic. I'm glad the mask malfunction didn't kill Bane (why would it?). I do have a question though: why even bother going through all that trouble of starting a revolution and trapping the police and destroying bridges when they could have just hit the trigger on the nuke. Obviously, Bane and Talia were expecting to die, so why not just get it over with? Not that big of a deal, if they had pulled the trigger then we wouldn't have been treated to such an amazing chase sequence with the Bat.

There were a couple times when I couldn't understand what the hell Bane was saying. I wanted to believe I understood everything, but I just didn't. And I had no problem understanding the prologue from December. I don't think it was the audio mix, I think it was the way some words were pronounced. Or maybe I was just thinking too hard and my mind couldn't decipher as I was hearing it. Especially during his talk with Bruce in the Pit. I will adjust my opinion after I see it without having been deprived of sleep (24 hours), food (36 hours), and water (16 hours). But the story still moved along fine.

After having watched the prologue that came out in December so many times, the takes they used for the final cut were kind of surprising. It'll take some getting used to with multiple viewings. The take they used for "with no survivors" almost made me laugh.

Regarding the running time, it went by fast IMO. Before I knew it, the end chase had begun. I had seen most of the set videos and pics plus all of the tv spots and trailers, so maybe that's why it felt fast.

So on a 4-star scale, with 4 not meaning "perfect", but rather "must see," I give it 4/4.

And finally, yes I think it's better than BB and TDK.

Stray note: Until tonight, I had never shed a tear watching a movie in a theater. TDKR got me twice.

The disjoint and unusualness of Hardy's voice and eyes during some scenes are on purpose..not something done with the voice in post production. It was so unusual when Nolan saw Hardy do it that he was shocked..in a good way. He said he had never seen that done before. I have no complaints about Hardy's voice at all his lines and his dialogue was amazing.....the only thing that I thought was a little different or off was the prologue tone of voice compared to when we see him again in the sewers for the first time, that's it. Other than that I loved his voice.

Alfred resigns. Bruce making the final climb. And when the orphans saw The Bat emerges from the fire and yelled "it's batman", JGL's expression was perfect, from full of hope to understanding Batman is sacrificing his life...I started crying like a baby till the autopilot part.