The Batman is the moviest movie I’ve seen onscreen for awhile. After a couple of minutes the movie sucks you in and it has you right to the end in its own world. Man, I’ve missed that feeling since I was a kid. The world of The Batman is awesome. It is also a rare movie that I even think about after I saw it. The last one like that was BR 2049 which I also enjoy. The Batman himself is also really good. I thought Affleck was pretty good as Bruce Wayne and certainly the best part of the last DC films but that Batman was just crap all the way to his CGI cape and car, ugh.
While I really enjoyed this film, there are a couple of parts that I thought could’ve been handled better. First, I really didn’t like Bruce Wayne’s look who looked like a 16yo emo kid. I honestly don’t know how old he is supposed to be but his look just threw me off almost everytime I saw him, at times he felt like a kid and at times he acted like an old dude.
Secondly, The Riddler is for some reason one of my favorite villains as an idea. But his duct tape costume was ridicilous along with the weird question marks. Also I have a problem with many films where there should be this crazy villain or something, and then their handwriting, messages etc. look like they are made by an underground marketing department. Like The Riddler really would write his letters and question marks with different font types and sizes for no reason just for one guy to see. This may sound like a weird complaint but I’m a logo and font enthusiast you might say.
But my biggest complaint is the running time. I thought that the first half went on like a train and I was completely on board. But then there was probably 30min or more of just talking where they went back and forth and the plot was a bit mess, and then it for no reason ended with an overelaborated bomb plan that took way too long and didn’t even really seem to matter or bring anything new. I’d rewrite the whole ending to make it more tight as I was already rolling my eyes at that point.
But I don’t want to end in a downer, so I have to say that I haven’t had that much fun in the theatre when Batman was chasing Penguin through the streets, damn that was fun to watch. It’s also interesting that this is the first time since Batman (1966) to have The Riddler, Catwoman, Penguin and Joker in the same movie.