Like its protagonist, The Batman is driven - while the hunt for the Riddler sprawls out in different directions, the film never deviates from it. The case takes the pair on a tour through Gotham’s underworld, crossing paths with crime boss Carmine Falcone (John Turturro), striver Oz “The Penguin” Cobblepot (Colin Farrell), thief Selina Kyle (Zoë Kravitz), and all of Gotham’s mobsters and elites, who have become codependent. Batman (Robert Pattinson) has been operating in Gotham for two years, and has established both a street rep that keeps common crooks scared and a rock-solid partnership with police Lieutenant James Gordon (Jeffrey Wright) that lets him in on crime scenes, even if most other cops hate it. Its strength is in its execution.Ī rain-slick mystery in the mode of David Fincher’s Seven, The Batman is a methodical hunt for the Riddler (Paul Dano) after his grotesque murder of Gotham City’s incumbent mayor in the leadup to the city’s elections. There is nothing particularly bold about The Batman. The new layers on display here are easily derived from what came before. Almost all of the characters, apart from the Riddler, are recognizable from previous Batman movies. At its most exhausting, it restages moments from the Nolan trilogy: A mobster tells Bruce Wayne the truth about how the world works, Batman fights his way through a nightclub in a fury or through a hallway illuminated only by gunfire, footage of the film’s villain terrorizing their next victim is broadcast over the evening news. The Batman is full of moments most Bat-fans will have seen before, and not that long ago. Unfortunately, Reeves’ new take has a lot in common with the old takes. Somewhere between the Snyderverse’s failure to launch a solo franchise with Ben Affleck’s elder-statesman take, and the enduring appeal of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy, there’s a lot of room for something new. The Batman, Matt Reeves’ moody reboot of the famous comic book hero, launches a new version of the Caped Crusader for the 2020s. Batman is back, and he is pissed as hell.
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