The Batman

Honestly THAT was my Batman.  Let me start by saying that this movie was pretty much perfection. A couple things that I wish didn’t happen happened and it was a little bit of a letdown. But, I’ve kind of learned to appreciate those things in a way the more I think about it. Anyone who watched the movie I think would understand.  Now I was so so surprised how dark and scary and horror ish it gets. Like for a PG-13 movie they really pushed their limits to the max. Some of those riddler scenes gave me absolute anxiety like a horror movie does. It gave me very much Saw vibes because of a few things. This riddler is honestly one of my favorite villains. Paul Dano does an INCREDIBLE job. I mean some of the best acting I’ve ever seen. Because of how scary they made riddler in this movie I’m curious to see how they would make Joker look like and do because riddler was like WOW and joker is so much darker and scarier than riddler. I really hope we get a joker in this universe.  Cat woman was great in this. Zoe Kravitz did a wonderful job and got me really loving her character a lot more than I would expect. She was a big element to the plot that I was surprised to see. I think they did a good job with Penguin and kind of setting up his story but not fully completing it yet.  Even though this film did not have a lot of action scenes I really enjoyed getting to see Batman be a detective and try and solve the riddles. I mean you get to see him be so so smart. This is the Bruce Wayne that I’ve been wanting to see. On the topic of Bruce Wayne one of my complaints was that we didn’t get enough of him. We got a TON of Batman but not a lot of Bruce Wayne or Alfred. I was kind of missing the element of Alfred like he was in the older Batman films. I would call this movie more of a thriller, mystery type not so much action but when there is action it’s incredible. The car chase between Batman and Penguin was the best scene of the movie for me. That chase was WILD and I loved every second of it. Riddler also had some of the best scenes in the film I would argue. He was so horrifying I couldn’t even imagine being 7 or 8 watching this movie. I would be traumatized. They should have a warning on this film tbh 💀. Overall, I really dug how this was targeted towards adults and more fans of horror and dark and gritty movies because that is what this is. This is my favorite comic book movie to date. I asked my friend what he thought. He like Spider-Man NWH more. Me personally loved Spider-Man NWH but they used fan service to make it good. The plot was very weak in it where as this film is good BECAUSE of the plot. They don’t use fan service at all in this and I really loved that. I need to see this movie again to really solidify my saying of best comic book movie of all time but for right now that opinion stands with me.