The Dark Knight, no contest.
I find it hard to even compare the three movies. The first one was a bit too much random Nolanitis, the third one was severe Nolanitis, temporary Shamalayashmoo brainfarts and recycled props that, at times, looked like a cheap Chinese knockoff of something plasticky cheap out of Power Rangers. Turrets made of metal do not wobble, hollow, obviously fake turrets made of styrofoam and plastic do. I really, really dislike the third one and find it difficult to not just plain hate it.
The first one wasn't bad, but it did not impress me like, say, Memento. The third Nolanman bat movie induced a dreamlike trance, in which I saw Christopher Nolan becoming something, some thing like the Great Revisor, suicidal scissor-man George of Lucas. Or some singular ctulhu-ridden entity like Michael Bay, who isn't shy to mess with big names and franchises but still, basically, keeps making the same movie over and over again. With lots of BOOM! Michael Bay is who Uwe Boll would have grown up to be had he not been born into a country traumatized and brainfecked beyond all sanity during/after/ever since WWII.
The first Nolan Batman felt like a teaser, one which felt around 75% fresh, one that made me WANT to see another, possibly better one. I got that, so, in retardspect, I can even swallow the whole Rastaghoul plotline and the Scarecrow bits that felt like they were the equivalent of two pages of that Simon Bisley Batman comic, spliced into the script of someone wanting to write something epic that was a mix between Conan Potter and the Bible.
The plot of the third one reminds me of the mumblings of schizophrenic folks. And it's got more heads and tails and butts than most boss characters in Dark Souls. Honestly, I liked some of the visual stuff that really looked cool on the big screen, but most of the dialogue (of which there is, of course, plenty) gives me brain cramps. I also don't dig the flying shitsaucerbat thing. That's just no way of handling the Tumbler, which was a ludicrous and, to quite some extent, fake but nonetheless superb design and 'vehicle'.
I loved Tom Hardy in Bronson, but I think the character of Bane just plain didn't get half the writers or the Nolanman's attention and love as that one and only Joker after Jack Nicholson did.
Nolanman 1: Nice try, but.
Nolanman 2: Hm, Meh, oh. Well done. Superb, da capo. Bonus points for the Rottweilers, hooray. Too bad about the dead guy. Genuine feeling of loss, even though I still find it hard to get over A Knight's Tale.
Nolanman 3: WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WHAT? WHY? HOW? WHY DO THEY DO THAT? WHAT ARE THEY DOING THIS FOR? WHY THIS CONVOLUTED, ROUNDABOUT WAY OF RAISING HELL? WHAT IS THE POINT? WHY ALL THIS TIME MANIPULATION SHIT? IS THIS CHRISTOPER NOLAN'S NOD TO CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S MOVIE INCEPTION? OR MORE LIKE MEMENTO? WTF? BATMAN SHOOTS ROCKETS INTO A MANS FACE?