Picking Nits
Nobody notices a drastically scarred cop in the 21-gun salute; Gordon could not have planned his fake death; just shoot the Joker in the face; the Lau and Coleman Reese pursuits are unnecessary; the boat scene is on the nose; constant shuttling of criminals and unexplained lying; Lucius Fox objects to phone surveillance after years of building weapons
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- How does nobody notice a drastically scarred cop at the funeral, one of the 21-gun salute participants, still wearing caked-on makeup, with a buddy who looks equally criminally insane in uniform.
- Gordon could not have planned to fake his death without knowing how or where the assassination attempt would come from; the whole plan is high-level poppycock, any resulting case gets thrown out of court, and he could have just hidden.
- The one thing you cannot do in a superhero movie, but should, is just shoot the Joker in the face, which would solve every problem.
- The entire Lau pursuit and the entire Coleman Reese pursuit are unnecessary; plotting problems are otherwise accepted as part of a comic book movie, but the two-boats social experiment is wished less on the nose; the clip is played.
- There is a lot of shuttling of supposed criminals, Lau from Hong Kong, Dent from central holding to county, prisoners onto a boat, and a lot of weird lying excused as not having time to tell anyone.
- Lucius Fox has overseen war weapons for an outlaw detective yet draws the line at listening to phone calls; a correction notes he built them as his job, like an arms dealer, Tony Stark style, and the Batsuit itself comes from dark weapons experiments; pull one thread of a Nolan plot and fifteen balls of yarn come out.
- Early aside: the skyhook feels out of place in a movie that otherwise feels like Heat.
- During the mob meeting, Lau appears on a little Sanyo TV from a plane to China with no wireless internet, so it is unclear how high-quality video is being beamed.