Synopsis: (alert: major spoilers ultimately) The film opens with some CIA agents escorting a nuclear mortal, Dr Pavel, and 3 hooded prisoners, on board atiny low military craft. On learning that the prisoners worked for a mercenary named nemesis, the agent guilty of the operation is worked up and begins interrogating the prisoners. However, one amongst the prisoners happens to be nemesis (Tom Hardy) himself, and changing into inactive was a part of his arrange. Suddenly, the craft is overwhelmed by folks in an exceedingly criminal-paramilitary unit in an exceedingly Hercules C130, from that many of Bane's men climb into the smaller craft victimisation ropes, killing the agents. nemesis and his men grab hold of Dr Pavel and improvise a blood transfer from Pavel to some clay. They then create the smaller plane to crash, taking him at the side of them within the larger craft.
The scene then cuts to Gotham, wherever Harvey Dent's death day of remembrance is being celebrated as Dent Day. At a charity event hosted through the forever-absent Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale), Commissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman) prepares to deliver a speech revealing the truth concerning Dent and conjointly the murders that the tender had taken the fall eight years past, however deciding the time wasn't right, stuffs it into his jacket. Miranda poet (Marion Cottilard), a moneyed capitalist, makes an attempt to satisfy the reclusive Bruce to get him to get her clean energy project, however isn't able to meet him.
Among the maids functioning at the Wayne manor for that event is Selina Kyle (Anne Hathaway), a burglar, World Health Organization breaks into Bruce's area and his safe, stealing his mother's pearls. Bruce, game in one leg, accosts her, however she attacks him and escapes. Bruce later is aware of that she conjointly took a replica of his fingerprints from the surface of the safe. A pursuit device looked as if it would be hidden within the pearls.
Selina then sells Bruce's fingerprints to Dagget, (Ben Mendelsohn), associate man of affairs with a shady background, World Health Organization tries to kill her however Selina neatly creates a diversion employing a missing congresswoman who's been together with her, leading to the police to converge on the spot.
A defunct teenager's body washes out from the sewers, and his body is recognized by officer John painter (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), as that of a child staying in associate orphanage wherever he coaches the children in baseball. painter is shown to own a awfully shut relationship with the orphanage and therefore the peace officer World Health Organization runs it, which we tend to understand later he himself grew up in this orphanage, and it had been funded by the Wayne Foundation. Among the youngsters at the orphanage informs him that they need detected rumours from the sewers providing smart employment recently, creating painter suspicious.
The sewers ar actually the den of nemesis, World Health Organization is at intervals the use of Dagget, and it's designed himself a military of devoted mercenaries. Throughout a raid round the sewers, some of mercenaries overpower Commissioner Gordon and manufacture him to nemesis, however Gordon appears to flee, shot by Bane's men and grievously dislocated, however not before nemesis confiscate from Gordon's jacket it within which Gordon supposed to reveal the truth concerning Harvey Dent and his murders. Bruce, carrying a face mask and speaking as tender, talks to Gordon, World Health Organization tells him that tender should come back and forestall Bane's organization. Wayne decides to don his cape once more and come back to crime-fighting, despite being in an exceedingly hopeless health.While prying the records, Bruce learns that the mercenary nemesis wont to be the person within the League of Shadows however was later excommunicated from the cluster.Because of his call of returning to Gotham as tender he features a spat with Alfred (Michael Caine) who's fearful of the tender losing, and Alfred leaves Bruce and conjointly the mansion permanently once revealing the contents of Rachel's farewell letter to Bruce, provided to Alfred previous to her murder within the Dark Knight.
Bane and therefore the men launch associate bold daylight attack the Gotham securities market, taking everyone within surety and manipulating the Wayne Enterprises stock victimisation Bruce's fingerprints (stolen by Selina and sold-out to Dagget) inflicting the corporate to go to bust financially. The surety state of affairs ends with the mercenaries avoiding, however tender enters the scene suddenly, inflicting the Gotham Police to concentrate the majority their resources into sensational him. Deputy Commissioner Foley (Matthew Modine) is keen to arrest the alleged felon of Harvey Dent, and following a chronic chase, tender is trapped into a dark alley. tender escapes within the alley within the Bat, a futurist flying version of the Batmobile designed by Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman).
To avoid the corporate closing, Bruce and Fox take Miranda towards the reactor designed by Dr Pavel, to persuade her to take a position within the project. This reactor was originally supposed as a weapon, however Fox and Miranda decide to use it for generating clean free energy for the complete town. The reactor is hidden within a chamber to a lower place the stream so it'd be flooded for containment in emergencies. Furious victimisation the very fact that he's able to not acquire the Wayne Enterprises, Dagget corners nemesis parceling blame for his failure. nemesis kills Dagget proclaiming himself chargeable for the town once revealing it had been his design machinery he necessary to make the delicate underground sewers and to accomplish his future plans that he complied with Dagget's orders.
Meanwhile, Selina is fearful of nemesis and therefore the mayhem he is progressing to unleash, and to safeguard herself from him, deceives tender into following her into the sewers, wherever he is trapped by nemesis. A long battle of close combat breaks between the 2, and eventually nemesis overpowers the tender, and breaks his backbone by smashing him down bodily on his knee. Moments later, Bane's men blow out the ceiling of the sewers, providing them with access Wayne Enterprises' Systems division.
Following the fight, Selina makes an attempt to depart Gotham, however is noticed and located by painter. The spoken language then turns to nemesis, whereby Selina shows his brutality, and his fight against tender. She's then inactive, and placed in Blackgate jail.
Bruce Wayne is then drop into a remote jail, still symptom from the fight. The jail sits at all-time low of a deep opening, with the sole means in or out through the outside ceiling. nemesis tells Bruce that he intends to kill his soul initial, and his body solely later. This jail was wherever nemesis was rumoured to become born, and it's disreputable as a "Hell on Earth", that no-one has were able to escape. However, among the doctors tells Bruce that it had been aforesaid that a toddler had were able to escape.
The child was born of a Mercenary, World Health Organization fell deeply enamored with a Warlord's female offspring. The Mercenary was to be sentenced to life within the jail, but the female offspring designed a influence her father to free him and instead aroused a captive there herself. Eventually a riot started at intervals the jail wherever she was raped and dead, and her kid at large. Bruce concludes that the kid should are nemesis.
While in his cell, Bruce sees many prisoners arrange to escape employing a rope, and rising within the shaft for the sunshine, however neglect to clear the ultimate hop on to some shelf necessary to flee.
Meanwhile, in Gotham town, painter has gotten ahold of files from Dagget, that shows his construction company collaborating in activity round the city's sewer systems. the complete Police (said to air a 'training exercise' so that they will not arouse suspicion), heads in to the sewers to find nemesis and therefore the henchmen.
Blake tracks down one amongst the sights, and finds explosive chemicals. this can create it he realizes that victimisation Dagget's construction crew, nemesis has square-rigged various construction areas around the town with explosives!
However, John's realization comes too late, as nemesis detonates the explosives the beginning of a soccer match, leading to the complete ground to collapse and collapse, and therefore the tunnels to the sewer ar sealed off! Gotham's arena is overcome as nemesis declares to the gang that he is currently guilty of the city, and achieving taken charge of the reactor, that he has become a bomb, murders Dr Pavel ahead of the dismayed audience, once rental them apprehend that Dr Pavel was the sole real man World Health Organization might disarm the nuclear device. nemesis conjointly declares that he leaves one subject chargeable for the explosive device who'd trigger the bomb just in case of any reasonably civil rebellion.
Simultaneously, essentially among the city's bridges leading up to the city ar destroyed by Bane's explosives, tack the complete population of the town within. nemesis threatens the govt. forces that ought to anybody arrange to enter or leave the town, he'll detonate the W.M.D., therefore forcing the govt. forces to protect the town and stop anybody from going. The lone bridge still intact is meant as the way to produce food and relief provides to Gotham's voters.
Bane then income to the jail wherever lots quite one thousand prisoners happen to be incarcerated as per the Dent Act, that gave huge powers towards the police. Here he reads out Gordon's supposed speech revealing the truth concerning Harvey, and declares the prisoners free, as a result of the person World Health Organization John Drew within the Dent Act himself was a felon beside a maniac. The prisoners be part of nemesis and along they enforce what nemesis calls "martial law"; forcing the made from their homes, holding pouched mammal courts (presided over by Johnathan Crane, aka, the Scarecrow) and providing them a choice: exile from Gotham or death by hanging. Exile suggests that being forced to steer on the frozen stream beneath the detonated bridges, wherever the ice threatens to crack and drown anyone creating the crossing.
Detective painter, meanwhile, with the assistance of the few policemen still remaining within the city, begin pursuit 3 massive military trucks, one amongst these carries the W.M.D.. to stop detection of the weapon, the three trucks ar motivated around the town incessantly.
Meanwhile, Bruce Wayne, holed up within the jail, is observance the mayhem in Gotham on the television within the jail. He gets the doctor there to inexpertly fix his vertebrae. Enduring the pain, Bruce hallucinates that he sees Ra's Al Ghul (Liam Neeson). as a result of the times go down at intervals the jail, Bruce's anger builds, and he's determined so as to avoid wasting Gotham. strictly coaching his body, he tries to form the escape doubly, however fails each time.
After the second try, Bruce queries the means a toddler might have at large, however he cannot. The doctor explains that if Bruce actually does not concern death, then there is not any want for him to undertake to flee victimisation the rope. Bruce realizes that was however the kid at large, and therefore the third try with no rope succeeds!
Bruce returns to Gotham as tender, beside the assistance of Selina, frees Miranda and Fox from Bane's captivity, and saves Gordon and a number of the policemen, World Health Organization had been captured and were being forced to cross the frozen stream. Fox reveals that trigger or no trigger, the nuclear device can detonate anyway within some of hours, and builds a sign sender which might block the signals from the trigger.
With Blake's facilitate, tender frees the police at bay within the sewers, World Health Organization then march the streets and attack Bane's army. A brutal combat ensues on the streets of Gotham. in the meantime tender fights nemesis once more, and has nearly defeated him, detaching many of the tubes on his mask that feed nemesis his anesthetic, that weakens him greatly. However, as tender makes an attempt to force nemesis to indicate the placement of the device to deactivate the bomb, Miranda suddenly stabs the tender within the facet.
This will create it unconcealed that her real name is Talia, which she was the child World Health Organization had at large from the Hell on Earth jail. nemesis are a captive there, as well as become her preserver. throughout the jail riot that claimed her mother's life, nemesis helped her to flee, however within the method was hurt severely. The jail doctor tried to repair the hurt, however his strategies resulted in nemesis needing anesthetics to perpetually keep your pain away.
After she had at large, Talia then tracked down her father: Ra's Al Ghul. She convinces her father to rescue nemesis, and each were trained within the League of Shadows. However, Ras Al Ghul realised that nemesis was associate extremist monster and therefore he was excommunicated within the cluster. Talia's intention would be to require revenge on the tender for killing her father, furthermore as finishing the mission of destroying Gotham for its greed that price her father's life. She then hits the trigger of the W.M.D., however Gordon has managed to suit the signal sender on the weapon simply in time. However, you'll realize solely eleven minutes left for that nuke to detonate. Selina, riding the Batpod, crashes in to the lobby and blasts nemesis with the Pod's massive cannon, killing the villain. Talia escapes, and takes management of the truck carrying the weapon, however eventually her escorts ar finished off in an exceedingly prolonged chase sequence, with Selina riding the Batpod and tender flying the Bat in mid-air, and assaultive the convoy carrying the nuke. Talia's truck beeps the road and crashes, fatally wounding her. In her last moments alive, she explains however her access to the reactor chamber allowed her to line a timer to flood it, preventing the weapon from being came there. She presently dies basic cognitive process she'd finally completed her father's work and penalize his death.
Lucius Fox presently escapes the flooding chamber and realizes it's not possible of stabilising the weapon. it's shown that the weapon can not be deactivated by any suggests that, and can detonate at intervals minutes. Before selecting to fly the bombard of Gotham. tender explains that the Bat has no autopilot, and therefore the man can need to fly the bomb from Gotham tender shares a kiss with Selina, before discreetly revealing to Gordon his true identity.
With not abundant time left, tender attaches the bomb to the Bat, and flies it from the town, and out at intervals the bay. The voters of Gotham watch awestricken as a result of the weapon detonates coming back, and conjointly the mushroom-cloud balloons at intervals the bay.
As an immediate consequence, the freed criminals ar place along by Gotham's Police.
A private ceremonial is control because of Wayne Manor for Bruce, by those that knew his true identity (including Gordon and Blake). Alfred sobs quietly, feeling he let Bruce's oldsters down by not protective him.
Blake resigns within the Gotham Police, and explains to Gordon the town will not ever absolutely understand World Health Organization saved it. Gordon tells him that they will apprehend that it had been 'The Batman' World Health Organization saved them. conjointly in tribute, a sculpture is erected in Batman's memory.
As an immediate consequence of Bruce Wayne's death, bound provisions ar created. the bulk of the estate comes, victimisation the cash provided to Alfred. Wayne Manor is obtainable towards the town of Gotham, as an area for orphan boys to stay. Strangely, among the Wayne family's treasures (a string of pearls) can not be settled.
John painter is shocked as he also can be a bag enclosed in Bruce's can. once presenting his I.D., the woman World Health Organization checks it says he ought to blow over his real name because it seems on his I.D.: Robin.
In Systems, Lucius has many employees check the Bat's physics at intervals the underground enclosure. speculative what he may need completed to urge the autopilot functioning, he's shocked once the employees justify the autopilot is useful, and therefore the laptop log implies that Bruce Wayne created the changes Six months prior!
Up on the roof of Gotham's department of local government, Gordon finds the once broken Bat signal (destroyed by him in person towards the tip from the Dark Knight) repaired.
Meanwhile, John painter has opened the duffle bag, and finds a spelunking rope, and GPS coordinates. the data leads him to a water (the entrance towards the batcave). He makes his means on the far side the water, and in to the cave, wherever his lightweight attracts a flurry of nutty.
In Florence, Italy, Alfred has came towards constant building that he had visited throughout Bruce's absence someday past. as he scans the realm, he is shocked to examine Bruce and Selina in an exceedingly near table. a momentary look between each Alfred and Bruce, is enough to assure another that every of those are alright.
In the final shot, we've got seen John walking over a pool of water. as a result of he achieves this, his movement activates the black flooring containing the batsuit. John simply stares around him as a result of the flooring rises up.
