TheBatman, starring Robert Pattinson as the Caped Crusader, is the best Batman movie since 'The Dark Knight' and a must-see
comic book epic is a vigorous beast in its own right, a three-hour saga of torment and vengeance whose spirit is at once indebted to ‘90s-style doom and gloom, and intensely attuned to our contemporary mood of misery, fear and ferocity. is a Caped Crusader saga fit for our furious age, and that begins with its version of Bruce Wayne, here envisioned by Reeves and co-writer Peter Craig, and embodied by, as a guyliner-sporting twentysomething billionaire with an anger problem a Gotham mile wide.
Between the recurring sound of Nirvana’s “Something in the Way” and Michael Giacchino’s pounding-horn soundtrack theme,is cloaked in a figurative funeral shroud, thus making Wayne’s eventual appearance at an actual funeral feel almost too on-the-nose.
, asked to be merely compassionate and noble as Batman’s loyal butler Alfred, fares well, bringing a measure of gravity to a largely perfunctory part., whose tale is revealed to be an intricate mystery related to systemic corruption spreading from the subway platform to the police station to City Hall. Its dour portrait of modern civilization as a decrepit corpse overrun by rats also feels, in a crisis-wracked 2022, all too relevant, this despite its revelations’ roots in comic book lore.
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