Sunday, May 15, 2022

Movie Review: The Batman


The three hour runtime chewed through all my time surplus, so all you get is this TLDR list:
  • Ninety minutes of story was stretched over twice that.
  • There are no good guys here; people range from a shady inheritance to psycho-bad.
  • Most of the actors were spot-on for their respective parts.
  • Gotham seemingly has no real economy.  Can a city exist on drug money alone?  Nah.
  • Some of the "world's greatest detective" part is OK.
  • The "60's badass muscle car" Batmobile was pretty cool.  Less tech, more wreck.
  • Just from the look of it, this movie just smelled bad.  Batcave is a junked-up monster car garage?  Sure, it's gonna stink like a truckstop in August.  Catwoman's apartment is packed with strays?  Yeah, we know what that's gonna smell like too.
  • There's a flooded city theme toward the end, so add New Orleans to the Chicago/New York mix.
  • Gritty.
  • Too damn long for too little chewy nougat center.
  • Two Stars out of Five.

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