MOVIE REVIEW: A new, brilliant, and bleaker caped crusader in TheBatman.
The world’s greatest detective. That’s who Batman is. Look at the front of the comic and that’s what it says. Yet none of his cinematic outings have ever captured that vital element of his character, instead homing in on the more superheroic side.
So for those who find the intersection of those two facets of Bruce Wayne’s alter ego fascinating, then Matt Reeves’ bold and enthrallingmarks a radical shift in direction, even from Christopher Nolan’s more grounded trilogy. It’s hard to take a punster in a green suit seriously without him seeming like a fifth-rate Joker, so Reeves and Paul Dano strip him of all humor. Like Pattinson’s self-destructive savior, Dano’s Riddler is unhinged and violent, with open nods to the Zodiac Killer and the Unabomber. At the same time, Batman has to keep an eye on mob boss Carmine Falcone and his chief enforcer, the Penguin while his path crosses with that of Selina , who works in one of Falcone’s drinking holes.
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