The Dark Knight RIses doesn't hold up under any scrutiny. Naturally, people can enjoy the film, but the writing is so contrived, and nonsensical, the behavior of the characters in it so bizarre, it verges on parody.
Bruce Wayne is written as the world's biggest dupe, he wholeheartedly trusts people he knows for hours, not days, not weeks, not months. He trusts Selina, even though the only thing he knows about her is that she robbed him, and that gets him brutally beaten up, and for all intends and purposes should have been killed by her betrayal. He gets robbed by her, which results in his life publicly destroyed, then gets beaten to an inch of death, but he still trusts her, even though he knows nothing about her. He doesn't know ''Miranda'' at all, considering the conversation when they sleep together, yet gives her oversight of Wayne inc. which leads to her betraying him, stabbing him, which should also have resulted in his death without the plot preventing that to happen.
And finally, he trusts John Blake, someone he once had a conversation with. It's one thing to have a notion that ''Batman'' is a symbol, a mask anyone can wear, quite another for Bruce Wayne to give up the mantle to a cop whose only predisposition for being Batman is that he's an orphan. The entire sub-plot of Blake figuring out he's Batman because he had a look which only orphans have, is singlehandedly the most ridiculous thing (the) Nolan(s) ever wrote. What if Bruce was someone who had a lost a child due to violent criminals, what if his wife was raped and killed, is there a particular look for every type of anguish, pain and isolation? Instead of writing Blake as someone intelligent, someone who doesn't need resources to figure out who Batman is, to give weight about why Bruce thinks he can take over, the Nolan's don't even bother. He knows, and that's it, Bruce doesn't deny it, and that's all the development of their relationship. Their last interaction is Blake just about to get executed, being saved by Batman, and this is the guy who will protect Gotham without any training, tactics, connections, or money. It's like someone who played football in high school meeting Tom Brady in 2007, telling Brady he understands the chip on his shoulder because he was cut from the high school team, and Brady proceeding to give up his position as a starting QB, even though the other person has no training, no experience, no coaching, no skills apart from ''i know the general rules of the game''. That's how absurd Blake becoming Batman is.
The villains behavior and motivation make even less sense. Why in the world are Bane, Talia and their entire army suicidal? The League of Shadows in Batman Begins is anything but. They're methodical, ruthless, and obviously a continuous organization who serve justice, and disappear until they're needed again. Ra's goal is to eradicate unsavable metropoles but from the perspective of Talia and Bane, who have no idea about the ''lie'', Gotham has been living in peace and prosperity for eight years. Ra's ''destiny'' wasn't to destroy Gotham for the sake of it, but because he was convinced it was beyond saving, had he been resurrected he would have been convinced he was wrong. Yes, the peace was built on a lie, but Bane conveniently found Gordon's letter while they were deep into their plan, so their destruction of Gotham boils down to petty, personal revenge on Bruce Wayne, and their idea of revenge is to nuke 10 million people, AND their entire organization while Bruce Wayne watches it on TV. It's incredibly stupid and preposterous. When you add that Bane has no ideology, the entire revolution schtick is nothing but a ruse to buy time, and not only he doesn't follow what Ra's believed in, but everything he does is because his beloved Talia decided to avenge her father, it makes their entire plan straight out of a bad cartoon. To tie it all up, Bane, the main villain of the film, is revealed to be a stooge five minutes before the film ends, gets blown away unceremoniously, then Talia who becomes the revealed villain, follows him to hell two minutes later with a notoriously bad death scene. Their plan to torture Bruce's soul by watching Gotham get destroyed on TV was foiled when Bruce decided to spend a couple of hours making a Batman symbol on a bridge, so why didn't Talia press the button then? If someone wants to argue that the reason she didn't was because she wanted to know Bruce it was her, Ra's daughter who did it, it's even worse. Who cares whether Bruce knows that for ten seconds, when she was going to blow them right after it? He's going to be dead literally seconds after the reveal, so there's no time to even process that information let alone haunt him.
That's not even half of what the nonsensical writing offers, every cop going into the sewers, unarmed policemen run heads-on into tanks and armed militia, turn it into a melee and win, a chasm that only a 10-year old girl can jump over but no grown man ever could, a billionaire losing everything, even electricity, a day after criminals attack the stock exchange in the middle of the day...the list could be longer than my post, which is already way into TLDR territory.
Nolan said everything he had to say, and asked every interesting question about Batman in the first two films, the ethics, and pros vs cons of vigilantism, the thin line between the overreach of justice and the lack of it, anarchy and order, the vulnerability of the social order, surveillance and torture as questionable methods for the greater good, etc...
The moment he couldn't figure out a more interesting story than ''The League of Shadows yet again but this time more suicidal, less ideological, with a nuke to boot'', he should have left it on the page and moved on.