I thought they did a great job with Bane. My fiancée thought his voice was frightening! Sometimes I mimic the voice and she gets freaked out. The only thing that takes away from the movie to me is that for it to be nearly 3 hours, there is precious little of Batman in it. I mean literally, if you add up the screen time of Batman (not Bruce Wayne), it will probably be less than 30 mins out of the nearly 170min runtime (just estimating). When Batman was on-screen, there just wasn't a lot there to differentiate him from the earlier movies (same look, no new gadgets besides the "Bat"). As a drama, the movie was excellent. But as a "superhero flick" it seemed to be lacking compared to others like the Spiderman trilogy, X-man trilogy etc.