The Dark Knight Rises: 20 Mistakes Nolan Should Have Avoided

10. Batman's Speedy Regeneration

Now, I know he's a superhero, but Bruce Wayne's rehabilitation from a broken back, and a pair of protruding discs to boot was ridiculously swift, especially considering his physiotherapy involved a sharp punch to the back from Tom Conti's fellow prisoner and the grumpy advice of Uri Gavriel's drug-addicted former prison doctor with sight problems (who was notoriously cack-handed anyway). Not the best medical care one could hope for, and yet Wayne recovers and manages to bulk up enough to be stronger than before (judging by the difference between his two fights with Bane anyway). Plus there's the issue of the injured knee (and the catalogue of other injuries that his medical turns up) which all goes away very swiftly without much residual impact - as if doing some press-ups and watching Gotham fall to pieces on the TV would be enough to fix an underlying medical condition that previously required the use of a cutting-edge mechanical knee-brace. That punch from Conti must have done some serious internal work. Yes of course it's poetic licence and watching Bruce Wayne crawl back to health would have been as painful for us as it would for him, not to mention the fact that Gotham's safety was dependent on a strict time-frame, but if we are to accept that Nolan's Batman is more realistic than superheroic, then it's difficult not to question the bits that required such a suspension of belief.
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