“When the Riddler, a sadistic serial killer, begins murdering key political figures in Gotham, Batman is forced to investigate the city’s hidden corruption and question his family’s involvement.”
I think the thing that really does strike you first about this movie, is that it really took 60 years for us to finally get detective Batman, and I couldn’t be happier. The Batman is truly a phenomenal adaptation of the Batman comics that we know and love, and its amazing to see such a faithful, yet bold and new feeling take on the dark knight (Batman not the movie). Also let me just say, all slander of Robert Pattinson must end right now, because he pulls out an acting tour de force as Bruce Wayne and Batman. His physical acting alone, in the way he carries his body as Batman versus Bruce Wayne, and the way he creates this sense of scale and physicality in the suit is just awesome to see. His first introduction as the Batman in the movie is riveting, tense and intense. We constantly get these introductions throughout the movie also to the new versions of classic items, and each time they are shot so wonderfully, and allowed to truly be works of art that pay so much tribute to them. The reveal of the new bat mobile, literally had my mouth wide open. Everyone here is so good also, Kravitz as Catwoman, Dano as the Riddler, Farrell as the Penguin, Wright as commissioner Gordon, they all carry out their roles flawlessly and wonderfully. Its also really nice to have a new Batman, that doesn’t have to re-establish a lot of the things we already know about Batman, but that most movies go over anyway. The score by Giacchino is also incredible, and constantly swells into grand overtures, that just make each frame that much more dramatic and able to feel both stylized and incredibly down to earth at the same time. Matt Reeves deserves a tonne of credit here also for what he has done here. The visuals of this movie are visceral and dramatic, but they also ring so true to the visuals of comics, and there are some scenes here that truly jump off of the page like hardly anything I’ve seen before. There is truly a really strong case here for this being the best Batman movie ever made, but its hard to say as I’m still so close to this, and only over the course of time will the truth of it really reveal itself. The Batman is a pulse pounding, thrill inducing, terror filling, awe inspiring film that HAS to be seen in cinema. All in all, The Batman actually over delivers on the promises of the trailers and media that has come out before it.
Review Score: 9.5 out of 10
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