But if the goals are now twisted that demands it be brought to attention otherwise it smacks of contradiction. It's not even implied her interpretation of her fathers goals are corrupt, it comes across as the exact opposite of those goals.
Talia is a psychotic terrorist whose father was killed while on a mission. She wants to complete the mission and seek revenge plain and simple. She's merely using the LOS mission statement as an excuse, as a way to try and justify her actions. Bane is a psychotic mercenary who was kicked out of the LOS for being evil and too ruthless (something they stated many times). Talia and Bane's league of shadows was not the same as Ras'. One was lead by a man who wanted to do good, but was misguided. The other was lead by a mad man and a woman obsessed with finishing her fathers work/avenge his death. It IS a contradiction, but an intentional one.
2. The way Bane’s back-story was handled. Instead of having Alfred tell Batman about Bane right away there should have been more mystery around the character. Bane should have revealed his back-story to Batman as they were fighting and when he dropped him off in the pit.
No, I think we needed to know how messed up Bane was prior to their fight. There was already enough exposition during their fight, and we still learned stuff about Bane when Bruce was in the pit. I do think Alfred's revelations about Bane was a little rushed, almost a blink and you miss it moment, but aside from tat, I think they handled it well.
3. On a somewhat related note: Batman should have been forced out of retirement by the actions of Bane. It was strange to me that Batman was on the scene right way Bane made his first attack on Gotham because Alfred told Bruce about Bane. It would have been more powerful if Bruce had to choose between standing on the sidelines or coming back as Batman even though he was not prepared as Gotham was being slowly taken over.
But that's what Bruce did...there was even a big fight with Alfred about whether to sit on the sidelines or go back out as batman, all because of Bane. Learning that a mad man with an army is out there about to do some damage is something I would consider as Bane "forcing" Bruce to don the cowl again.
4. The Miranda Tate one night stand scene didn’t really fit in. Perhaps they could have tried to build a back-story between them, that they had been working on the clean energy project for the last couple of years and grew close – this would have made it even more powerful when she turned on him.
I think this was stated in the movie a few times.
Selina Kyle somehow knowing about Bane and where he was located.
Selina worked for Daggart. Daggart worked for Bane. They established that Selina was resourceful and not an idiot, if she hadn't heard of Bane directly from Daggart in one way or another (if memory serves me, I think it was insinuated that she did, it was atleast made clear that she had contact with bane prior to the sewer fight based on how they looked at each other when she "delivered" Batman), she could have done some sleuthing to learn more about her "client" Daggart, or even heard whispers or rumors of Bane from the Narrows as people where joining his army in the sewers.
