Nolan capped off his "Dark Knight" trilogy with a bloated, plot hole-filled epic that wraps up loose threads while unnecessarily unraveling others. Bane’s voice is the least of the film’s problems, especially when the movie argues that all you need to heal a broken back is some old mountain man’s touch and, um, push-ups.
From Batman’s arc being that he goes from seclusion to retirement (which isn’t an arc), to faking his death at the cost of Alfred’s well-being (which heroes don’t do), "Rises" falls incredibly short of earning the emotional resonance that the previous films pulled off effortlessly.
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