So having just returned from seeing Batman, I’m going to make the obvious/lazy comparison between the film as a whole and Bane talking through his weird mask re-breather thing.  Basically it’s loud and indistinct. Because most people haven’t seen it yet, I’m going to avoid specific spoilers but be aware that if your spoiler averse the following might not be for you:

• To go all film crit hulk, (rule number 1. always name your sources and inspirations even if your posting on tumblr), nothing in the movie really builds or effects anything that comes before or after anything else.  For example, the movie is about how Batman is ultimately unnecessary/doomed to failure, which means that Batman hardly appears and the alot of attention is placed on Gary Oldman, Joseph Gordon Levitt and company.  But the problem is that Batman’s failure is established to have occurred years before the film begins.  So when Bane arrives, there’s none of the thematic conflict that we saw in the Scarecrow (fear) or the Joker (chaos).  He just reiterates what we already know, that Batman can fail/is a failed project. BATMAN MUST DIE but he’s already dead.
• Bane is also tied to the most incoherent part of the first Batman movie, the motivations of Liam Neeson as leader of the League of Shadows.  They want to destroy a nebulous concept of decadence/evil by being really corrupt and evil. Bane’s going to destroy a whole city but why? For all the long term planning that goes into the plot behind the end of Gotham, there’s no fucking long term justification for anything he does except as an ultimately banal act of revenge. An act of revenge which doesn’t even begin to make sense because the plot’s target Bruce Wayne/Batman is already a destroyed man at the beginning of the movie. 
• The whole really intricate villainous plan that ONLY SERVES TO MAKE THE HERO MORE DETERMINED AND STRONGER sucks as a narrative concept. Just let it be a shitty poorly thought out plan. Please, please if your going to make your villain absolutely fail in their primary objective then just let them be incompetent, make their incompetence part of the problem. Please just read Butcher’s Moon for the perfect example of the compellingly incompetent against overwhelming competence.  Don’t have these supremely competent villains fail because they’ve gone up against the one man who is even more supremely competent than they are. The brilliance of the Joker was that he didn’t care that he failed constantly because the result was chaos anyway.  Bane wants a highly specific goal and it’s spectacular but never engaging.
• Ugh, the politics of this film, not the disaster that some people were expecting.  But paper thin, incoherent and packed full of hollow ideas, heh, just like the rest of the film.  The movie should have been about Batman’s War on Crime, but that’s brushed away with the blindingly obvious answer of not paroling anyone convicted of a crime. From then on its only a matter of time before people realise that all major crimes are solved.  NO NEED FOR BATMAN ANY MORE.  He only needs to wait for the moment when symbolic self-sacrifice unrelated to crime but saves the city from certain doom. Yes, to truly save Gotham City forever, all Batman needed was a bronze statue of commemorating that great sacrifice. And guess what! The things that a statue of Batman can’t fix are because of the SYSTEM.  Time for Joseph Gordon-Levitt to quit the police force and become the sequel’s batman, in which he’ll fight against the perception that orphan boys will inevitably become criminals, or whatever thing was placed in his mouth as an early character building sympathy ploy that contradicts the concept of NO PAROLE EVER as the one true solution against organised crime.