The Dark Knight Rises Biggest Plot Hole Has a Perfectly Logical Explanation
No matter how great a movie, eagle-eyed fans will always find something to be unhappy with. Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises is no exception.
Time and again picky fans revive old threads about TDKR's so called "plot holes" that they just can't grasp. In the latest plot hole hunting bout people wondered (yet again) how Bruce Wayne managed to quickly return to Gotham after escaping the pit.
Let's see what happened.
There is a scene in the film in which Lucius clearly says that the bomb will explode in 23 days. Then we see Bruce getting out of the pit. In the next scene Bruce is in the city where he tells Selina that the bomb will go off the next day. So, from this exchange it becomes clear that more than three weeks passed.
This allows us to make a logical conclusion that it really did take Bruce some time to get out. Sounds totally reasonable, doesn't it?
Okay, but how did he get to Gotham? One of the redditors provides a logical explanation for that, too.
"Remember in Batman Begins that Bruce is able to travel around the world all by himself with no money and no resources to learn the ways of a criminal. This is also before he gets trained by the League of Shadows and learns how to become "invisible" and sneak around undetected," the comment reads.
Indeed, this could well justify Bruce's ability to move around fast. Invisible mode on, get on a boat or a plane undetected and go wherever you want no matter where the pit is.
One of the redditors is absolutely furious about others saying Bruce's comeback to Gotham was a plot hole. He believes it is the dumbest complaint ever.
"Did people want to see Bruce waiting in line at an airport? He is a freaking ninja; sneaking back into Gotham is not even a noteworthy task for him," the commentator said.
You can't show everything in a movie because there's no need to do it. Just because we don't see certain actions happening it doesn't mean they never happened in the movie's universe. For instance, do we really need to see Bruce Wayne combing his hair before he goes to a party?
The fact that some fans really want to break the movie up into tiniest pieces to analyze it might be fun but, as one of the fans said on Reddit, your picky analysis should never overshadow a general feeling you get after watching a film.