The Batman.In the quest for darker and darker, the franchise has gone complete emo, there's even eyeliner now. I have no idea how this fits into the Justice League universe or whatever, but I suspect no one does at this point, they just wanted to do another Batman movie.
I sort of expected to dislike it, but it's actually not too bad. There's a very gritty Gotham, a late 80s era NYC, besieged with crime that the Batman isn't doing much about. Did I mention dark and gritty? I think it rains in every scene. Even indoors. There's no comic relief. Admittedly, the problem I always have, is at the end of each very serious scene a voice in the back of my head says
but he's a man who dresses as a bat, ian. This is, I suspect, Batman's most tragic failing. He's a man who dresses as a bat.
It's longer than some geological ages, so train your bladder or be prepared to re-use your popcorn bucket (make sure you've finished the popcorn first). They pack a lot in, admittedly, but there are a lot of those long drawn out moody scenes (
he's a man who dressed as a bat, ian). Plus it ends, then ends some, then ends, a sort of rolling bladder teaser that's intended to make you leak a little.
The most perfect ending ever would have been, when he looks back to Catwoman zooming off in the opposite direction he finds the cat sitting behind him, riding pillion.
