🎥 🎞 Movie Review 🎞🎥 - THE BATMAN - PG13 - HBO MAX - I tried...I seriously tried to watch this movie without putting it on pause. After a week of getting through this gross mess of a film, I am seriously doing my best to understand what all of the hype was about. Personally, I had a little issue with Robert Pattinson [from th Twilight series] stepping on board to play Batman/Bruce Wayne and I am certainly NOT going to say that the films failure is due solely to his performance. As a matter of fact, I was impressed by his maturity and the action sequences which were used to fulfill the mystique of Batman's hard training in defending and/or attacking the bad guys; so, kudos to Pattinson for doing that part of Batman some real justice.
All in all, I feel that the film suffered due to the poor direction of Matt Reeves and his writers Peter Craig and Bill Finger. They were trying to create an investigative edge to the Batman and deliver the film a psycho thriller, tossing a skewed plot and story with several [often too many] bad guys and not focus on the real crime agenda plot. I thought that making The Riddler a serial killer-type character was a little odd, but bringing in the gangster motif once again was just a little over the top. And of course, plots over lapped and before you knew it, there were other characters that were added to only bolster the confusion of the main plot.
Zoe Kravitz was brought in to play Catwoman, and even though many have told me that they were impressed with her performance, I wasn't. I wasn't even impressed with Michelle Pfeffer's 1992 Catwoman performance in Batman Returns, but boy did I love to see her in the cat suit! - but even then, there was an attempt at developing the character; in The Batman, there was no such luck.
And of course, as with ever other failed re-boot franchise that releases a poorly produced product, there's always those producers that claim that "Well, this is supposed to be younger Batman whose still trying to find his way..." - yeah well, they can claim what they want, but in the end the story didn't impress where it should have and maybe next time the writing team will stick to one bad guy at a time, and bring in a REAL Bat Mobile to the film.
This movie was pretty close to be labeled as dogshit with just one star...but, I have to admit that there were some attributes to the film that definitely demanded some praise.
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ [3 of 5 Stars]
