it's I really don't watch many DC superhero movies, but I got the chance to watch this one and was pleasantly surprised. This movie, in my opinion, is more of an action-packed murder mystery than a superhero movie about a murderer (if that makes any sense). Over the span of (a rather gratuitous) 3 hours, the film follows Batman as he tries to unmask "The Riddler" and uncovers a crazy amount of corruption along the way, including secretive information about his parents. I'll try not to spoil too much, but this one of the movies where even though the villain gets caught in the end, it kind of feels like they won anyways. Batman catches the Riddler, but not before he killed countless people, and killed many more remotely even after he was caught, not to mention the extensive damage he caused to the city. Also, this movie is supposedly only the first in a trilogy, so we might get a new movie with the joker, or possibly other famous DC villains.
There is something that this movie actually does too well. There are so many amazing cinematic action moments, and beautiful camera shots, but they come out too perfect. So much so that they push you out of the movie, making what you are seeing go from believable to "movie magic". There is one scene in particular that almost made me laugh at how insanely "movie perfect" it was. Batman is in a car chase with the penguin, who cuts off two semis, making them crash into each other. OF COURSE one of them is an oil tanker, and OF COURSE the engine of the other semi explodes to light the oil tanker. At the same time, Batman is trapped in-between these two about-to-explode semis and THE LOADING RAMP OF ONE OF THE SEMIS FALLS OFF RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM AND HE JUMPS OVER THE CRASHING SEMIS AS THEY EXPLODE BEHIND HIM. It makes for a very cool slo-mo shot, sure, but it also looks unbelievably fake/unrealistic. I would like to say that this is the only super unrealistic moment but sadly it's just the most glaring one. As you may know, I am a sucker for reoccurring musical themes in movies that make their presence known. This movie does that not only once, but TWICE. Something in the way by Nirvana appears at the begging of the movie, while they show the city before the events of the movie, and then it appears again at the end after the aftermath. It brings you back the the beginning of the movie, and you can kind of see the effects of everything that has happened. The other sound thing in this movie that is super cool is that they play "Ave maria" as foreshadowing when the Riddler is going to strike, or is at work on something. The songs starts off as a non-diegetic, but then it becomes diegetic when the Riddler starts singing it after he gets captured. A very cool use of sound that I don't think I have ever heard in a movie before. About the movie being 3 hours long... it was a little much. It couldn't have been split into 2 smaller movies just because of the sake of the plot fitting together the way it does. It felt like there was almost a little bit of filler in the middle of the movie, and certain scenes felt like they dragged on forever. It might be to set the scene for subsequent movies, but without knowing what's coming they just came off as boring to me. Characters: 8/10 Shot selection: 8.5/10 score: 10/10 Plot: 9/10 Overall enjoyment: 8.5/10 Final rating: 8.8/10
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