• mm

    ★★★★½

    Might not ever get over that Falcone reveal and how clunky and lame it is in a movie that is otherwise perfect.

    Part II soon, please!

  • mm

    ★★★★½

    I love every thing about this… except the script.

    Over two hours of mystery, creepy clues and suspicion and the big reveal is that the most famous mafioso in Batman lore is… exactly who he was in Batman Begins and The Long Halloween, his two most famous appearances.

    I’m just confused about how Reeves expected us to react to all of this, and viewing it through the lens of someone not as plugged into the Batman lore, is a mafia…

  • mm

    ★★★★½

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    Too lazy to write a big essay so here are some random thoughts.

    - First, an observation. In the establishing shot right before Batman stalks Catwoman home, you can see Riddler watching them from his apartment. I love little touches like that.

    - The only thing keeping this from 5-star territory (for now at least) is the story. I guess I just don’t love using the Long Halloween framework to tell a corruption story instead of a murder mystery. As…

  • mm

    ★★★★½

    ✅ Godfather reference
    ✅ Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy reference
    ✅ Made by a real director of sight and sound with narrative focus to the story and not a million set ups for movies being pre-vis’d to death 3 years before a single crew member is hired.

    The narrative might not have the payoffs Reeves thinks it does, but literally everything else about The Batman is done to perfection, unrivaled in this subgenre since the caped crusader’s spiritual predecessor of Bale…

  • mm

    Rain. Fire. An old, decaying Gotham City?

    I am 1,000,000% fucking in on this.

  • mm

    Robert Pattinson (Patman? Battinson?) is gonna kill it. 

    Stoked for this!!! Only thing that could make this better is if Mr Freeze is the main villain.

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