Exactly my thoughts, the only time it really felt as if hardy was talking was the speech outside the prison. Sounded like kenneth williams with a darth vader helmet on at times. Menacing enough in stature though, the opening scene was fantastic!
My real problem with the film (and most films now to be fair) is after being spoilt by some excellent tv series of late there isnt enough time to cover everything with to the level of detail you'd like. The five month occupation of gotham seemed relatively trivial in screentime terms, I would have liked a LOT more of this, something along the lines of the battlestar galactica new caprica storyline. I maintain the dark knight returns should have been two films kill bill style, this could have been 3. Its definitely a decent stab at it though, shame Nolan is done with the character.
I was hoping the robin guy was going to turn out to be azrael. Fucking Robin :wallbutt: