Well the thing that makes The Dark Knight so good in my opinion is that the script is written to test the morals and "rules" of Batman as well as Gordon and Dent. The Joker was the perfect catalyst for that, and it makes for an insanely intense film with plenty of twists and turns that is also a very personal conflict and large scale conflict at the same time.
TDKR doesn't really touch those themes like TDK did.

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