Ignoring all the rest of it, I was really disappointed that I knew exactly what was going to happen at every single moment.
The second we saw that scar on the woman's back I knew she was Talia (and I suspected before after the company takeover thing, it was just too perfect) I guessed the entire ending from the moment they mentioned the batplane's autopilot. They wouldn't even have mentioned it had it not been about to have massive significance, so I guessed that the finale would include the batplane, flying something somewhere, and without the autopilot he would die, but with it he would survive. Once we then saw the fusion bomb the entire climax ceased to have any significance for me. I spent nearly two hours knowing exactly how the ending was going to play out and it didn't even take any deductive reasoning.
From there the rest was even more obvious. Brucie was obviously going to leave the life, Blake was obviously going to take it up, because he was the only other character with real significance, so what else could he possibly do? Bane of course would break Batman, because what else could he possibly do? The only thing I suspected which didn't come true was that Catwoman was after the blank slate for the little blonde haired chick (who I think was supposed to be Holly Robinson) Foley had to die, as did Talia and Bane, and in the end it would come down to some ridiculously truncated time scale in which they had to save the city.
My biggest complaint with DKR is that it was Storytelling 101, and I really thought Nolan was better than that. TDK managed to surprise me, especially with the death of Rachel, because it was so not what was supposed to happen. (I still didn't like the ***** but hey) Even Begins made me give a little 'huh' when it turned out Ra's in this version was a legacy title rather than one man. DKR had no twists, no turns, nothing to surprise me and nothing to engage me. It was big and flashy and very nicely constructed as a piece of cinema, but the story was sorely sorely lacking.
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