Film Review — The Batman
Not in the same league as Christopher Nolan’s masterful trilogy, but solid and absorbing, with Robert Pattinson proving a splendid Caped Crusader
The new Batman film, entitled The Batman presumably to signify this Caped Crusader as definitive, is dark, menacing, and violent enough to warrant being slapped with a 15 certificate in the UK (it has the milder PG-13 certificate in America). That meant the usual shenanigans smuggling in our youngest with carefully worded misdirection. The cinema usher asked him for a date of birth, not his date of birth. Therefore, in an obfuscation worthy of Sir Humphrey Appleby, my youngest duly supplied a perfectly valid date of birth. Just not his.
Leaving aside the fun and games of outwitting the jobsworth brigade whilst technically not telling lies, The Batman, I’m pleased to report, is actually a pretty good film. Not without flaws, and certainly not in the same league as Christopher Nolan’s classic Dark Knight trilogy, but then again, what is? In this case, director Matt Reeves makes the Caped Crusader his own by emphasising the detective element of the narrative, whilst drenching his film in Se7en-esque, rain-soaked, neo-noir visuals.
This is the darkest Batman film, in every sense of the word, set in a Gotham rife…
