I agree on the high expectations part. But I just can't get past all the loopholes in the story.
WARNING: spoilers below
Blake knowing Wayne is Batman, Wayne sneaking into a heavily guarded city, Bruce's knee and back getting miraculously fixed, etc
I could go on. I expect better from a smart filmmaker like Nolan. And yes, if Ledger was alive things would have been different, cause we probably would have seen a story revolving around Joker and Batman.
Blake knowing Wayne is Batman, Wayne sneaking into a heavily guarded city, Bruce's knee and back getting miraculously fixed, etc
I could go on. I expect better from a smart filmmaker like Nolan. And yes, if Ledger was alive things would have been different, cause we probably would have seen a story revolving around Joker and Batman.
I do rate Following and Insomnia high.
Bruce did not have a miracle healing factor. Old fashioned techniques were used to put a vertebrate back into place. His spine wasn't actually broken
TDKR did get something: they got the special forces that smuggled themselves into the city.*He travels the world in Batman Begins as an untrained man with very little money and resources. Are we supposed to be believe that an older and experienced Bruce suddenly wouldn't be able to do this?
Getting back into the city is achievable considering the fact that government special agents snuck in. If they are capable of that, how is a far more skilled and trained Bruce Wayne not?
After getting to Gotham, he went into getting the clean slate, searching Catwoman and needed Fox cause he has access of the backup armors and batwing that Bane didn't need and couldn’t possibly know. So he gets captured to get Lucius Fox, meanwhile Talia probably tells that Bruce is back (not Batman) or just thought it was fail proof because at the time cops were still into sewers and the nuke was going to be explode in hours.
He thought that Batman was weak and said that he wanted to kill Bane only at the end "when Gotham is ashes, you have my permission to die", so it's plausibile that the blast needed to go like they planned.
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Blake doesn't have a full confirmation that Wayne is Batman, but as he explains to Bruce, he always had an inkling.
Blake talks about losing parents is something no child can ever move on from, not someone stuck in an orphanage like him, or someone like Wayne, with boundless money and potential. Its a kind of unspoken comradery that only those in the situation can understand, hinted at when Blake says
Blake: No one knows how it feels to be angry in your bones.
From this, and from the time that Bruce visited the boys home, the boys always had a fantasy of Bruce being Batman, as a bit of a joke. But Blake could tell from Bruce's face that day, from the look and smile he gave everyone, that it wasn't just pure fantasy. As Blake also explains:
Blake: I know that smile you put on...its the same one I taught myself
From this, Blake has a gut feeling that Bruce isn't who he lets on to everyone, billionaire playboy extraordinaire. But something different.
Not to mention one big element from the movie, Bruce goes into seclusion almost around the same time Batman disappears. Putting these pieces together, Blake makes the assumption that Bruce is Batman, and confronts him with Gordon's shooting.
This turns out to be correct, of course, and garner's Bruce's trust because Blake is someone who can understand Bruce's situation, coming from it himself. And Blake is also someone who share's Batman's ideals, as he says:
Blake: I don't know why you took the fall for Dent's murder, but I'm still a believer in the Batman
Showing us and Bruce that he has, at least similar, ideals to how Bruce was when he first put on his cape and cowl. And also the reason why he trusts Blake with the cave at the end.
TDKR had no plot holes. This website debunks them all -*
http://www.vardulon.com/2013/07/its-...ong-about.html