I really liked the movie as a whole, even though it had a few issues. Quick list of my positives and negatives:
POSITIVES:
It had a happy ending
-No, arbitrarily having a sad ending or manufacturing events so the hero has to die doesn't automatically make your film/book/game deep and mature. Thank you Dark Knight for not attempting to be "dark" in the 16 year old emo sense.
Music
-Hanz Zimmer has never done a bad score, at least that I'm aware of
Bane is cool
-Some people didn't like it, but I think the posh voice with the rough appearance they were going for worked, even if he was occasionally hard to understand because of the mask. Also, the apathy with which he did everything was quite the contrast from Joker, for obvious reasons
Catwoman
-Do I need to go into why this is a good thing? Seriously? I wish they had established the romance between her and Batman earlier if that's what they were going to go with later (it really wouldn't be that hard), but I did always think that catwoman and batman would end up together if either of them were ever to retire... (speaking about all versions)
Commissioner Gordon
-Gary Oldman is his awesome self, although he didn't seem to get quite as much screen time as he should have
Gadgets
-They remembered to include batman's gadgets, good for them, and now I really want one of those flying things!
Action Sequences
-Gotta love the fact that the police thought they could corner batman... how cute...
Robin
-He really felt more like the protagonist than batman, which could be seen as a bad thing, but he did a good job playing the role of what Gordon probably was 20-30 years ago.
NEGATIVES
Time jumps
-They really need to make it clearer that time passed. I had no idea that the 3-5 month jump had occurred until someone mentioned it. But they mentioned it long after we were already supposed to have known about it! Slightly confusing.
Fist fights
-Catwoman's were cool, but Batman and Bane didn't seem very agile, although to be fair I guess it would be hard to move in a suit of armor...
Too much talking!!!!
-No, I'm not against story, but there was a little bit too much told by just blatantly saying it. Some moviegoers aren't so dumb that they need everything spelled out for them.
Pacing
-The beginning does take a little too long to get going, and during the middle, I was pretty confused as to what was going on because they skipped around so much. Shorten the beginning and stretch the middle out a bit and the pacing issues would have been more or less fixed.
Miranda Tate
-Pointless love interest that only served to get in the way of what *could* have been a much more interesting romantic subplot between batman and catwoman, but instead didn't work because of lack of time. Also, if you didn't predict her turning evil about 5 minutes into the film... then you haven't seen enough films, I guess.
The one big plot hole
-Maybe I'm missing something, but why exactly did they wait to blow up the city? They could have done it at any time, and were always going to destroy the city, so why wait and give the remaining good guys a chance to fight back?