Saw it again this afternoon.
Still a mess. Definitely not as great on multiple watches and not as epic as The Dark Knight.
One thing I didn't catch last time...at what point did Selina know Bruce = Bats? It's never explicitly clear when they are in scenes together, but when Blake asks her if they killed Bruce Wayne, she says "she doesn't know"....obviously meaning she left him with them.
But when they're on the bridge later they still act like his identity is a secret.
....and the entire plan of threatening to detonate a nuclear bomb that is going to detonate itself in 12-hours ANYWAY is just a
disaster. The whole "take back your city/find the triggerman/
" arc was a mess too.
...and the cops marching to certain death was still fukking ridiculous.
Oh, and I wish they'd have made Blake's discovery of Wayne/Bats more than "I saw it in your eyes when I was 10"
I mean, let that be a spark, but then let him actually dig something up or connect other dots. As it plays, it's just a writing cop-out imo.
None of the big problems I had with the film were resolved on a second watch.