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Nevermore on 31 July 2012
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HappySqurriel said:
Nevermore said:

Well, my biggest gripe with the plot is the entire motivation of the bad guys, headed by Talia. They have the exact same motivation than Raz al Ghul did in the first movie, which can be described by "Blow Gotham up because it's such a shithole". You can understand that motivation for the first movie, since there Gotham is depicted as a pretty dirty and violent place. With the third movie however, it's very clear at the beginning that Gotham has changed for the better after some new laws have passed. Everything's clean and the police doesn't have anything to do since there's barely any crime. That motivation which held up for first movie has thus been completely invalidated. "I'm gonna blow Gotham up because of all the crime!" - "But there isn't any crime." - "Well, uh... I'm gonna blow it up anyway." Yea, makes total sense.


The point wasn't to blow up Gothem because it was a sh*t hole, their goal was to blow up Gothem to complete Raz Al Ghul's legacy and to avenge his death.


The cleansing of a corrupt city IS Raz's legacy. That's what he tried and failed to do and now Talia is there to finish it, but it makes no sense because it's not corrupt anymore. Things only start going down the dumps because of their own actions. This leaves only the revenge angle, which does kind of hold up, but nuking an entire city just to get back at Batman seems to be quite the overkill.