The Batman (2022)- Review

Here we are a new batman movie and let you know right out the gate there are no spoilers in this review. This is a spoiler-free review, for right now sit back relax enjoy the spoiler-free review of the batman 2022. So, the batman is a new batman movie that changed hands and changed concepts a lot throughout the years it’s gonna be a standalone. It wasn’t and for the uninitiated for people who don’t bathe in comic book movie nerd them. It can get very confusing i totally get that so to clarify this is not a sequel or a prequel to any existing batman movie. This is a new on-screen batman adventure not linked to any other on-screen batman adventures that we have. If you remember the batman who laughs, If you look at it that is very comic bookish, it’s funny that comic book movies have become. So comic books in the world of comic books they’re graphic novels. Comic book stories that aren’t linked together they’re their own things. it’s kind of funny that comic book movies are doing that while we have one on-screen batman adventure.

I am sure you want to know that who is the new batman 2022. In this batman movie titled the batman robert pattinson plays the batman. There’s a new player in town, by player i mean serial killer which is a new on-screen Riddler and as we saw in the trailer very dark very broody batman. it’s more of an investigative batman film broody batman film in terms of atmosphere. The atmosphere of gotham i thought this movie really hammered the point home. The point is a point that we’ve heard in other batman movies other batman stories but it’s never fully been realized by me and that is that gotham is the biggest on the planet batman. Why are you even trying because Bruce Wayne and batman they always hear that but i’ve always been like yeah but gotham has great architecture or i’ll be like yeah it has a criminal element but you take out the mob. You have a pretty sweet city on your hands this movie really hammers at home. it’s like no gotham is the worst and batman might just be fighting a losing fight i dug the fact that they hammered that tone home probably helps that 99 of this movie is nighttime right before sunrise. That’s in here right at sunset that’s in here no daytime scenes though feels very gotham. It feels very arkham city that also means Robert Pattinson is batman for 95 of the movie though i can make an argument for 100.

Before we get to the bat and singers and spend a lot of time talking about that we’re going to talk about support characters. The support characters in this movie were great i loved Colin Farrell as the penguin when you see him in the trailer, you’re like that’s not Colin Farrell. When you hear him in the movie you hear more Colin Farrell in there. Point is though it’s one of those castings where i’m like wouldn’t have thought of it and that’s why i do not get paid money to think of it. Colin Farrell was great in this movie as was Zoe kravitz’s catwoman . Zoe kravitz’s catwoman is a standout in the batman. One could argue that zoey kravitz says catwoman made for a more interesting character than batman in a movie titled the batman, which is really funny that we got the bat the cat the penguin. Which is one of the taglines for batman returns more of a side thought really but what i liked about it is that you have these batman villains and batman characters in here but you don’t get origin stories for them. All makes the world feel more established more real, like just like yeah gotham exists and it’s existed for longer than batman’s existed really.

It’s the fact that they all come together in this lived-in criminal city. This criminal world that makes for the most interesting character in the movie and that is the city of gotham itself. Now with riddler,  i’m going to tread lightly because we haven’t seen a lot of the riddler in the trailers. But you do see the fact that obviously there are kills and riddles that batman has to solve when confronting riddlers games and traps and what not. I thought those were great they’re messed up fulfilling violent. It was a cool introduction to riddler into this kind of world also there’s a real, what the hell is going on kind of feeling you have when you’re seeing it. Loved the batmobile in the trailer i was like seems like a muscle car with a rocket on the back and it still does feel like that which if i’m being honest is most the reason it felt awesome because when that engine kicks on and that sound design hits you in the middle of your chest. You’re like also leads to what i think is the best batmobile chase sequence i’ve seen in a batman movie.

Well it is what it is but if i found out nope that was a real car chasing another car. I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised it just felt grit in your teeth real and as much as i usually forget to talk about musical scores. I made a point to remember to talk about this Michael Giaccino’s musical score in here is great. It’s the song in the trailer that is that epic swell and that’s you’ll listen to it on youtube 150 times after you watch the movie. Now Jeffrey Wright as Gordon Jeffrey wright is a great actor and he makes the call work the call being if we’re going to have gotham and we’re going to have every element of gotham. Every person in gotham be the broodiest version that they could possibly be for most of the characters it does work.

 I think Jeffrey Wright made that work for Gordon, he feels like a Gordon who’s just at his wit’s ends has the weight of the world on his shoulders. So he’s all right this vigilante person is really doing the only game in town that looks like it might lead to anything. I can see why this version of gordon this super broody gordon went there but then we get to the broodiest of broody’s robert pattinson as bruce wayne. I say bruce wayne because broody batman makes sense when he was cast people like oh he’s gonna be super emo batman.

I was like hey he out acted everyone in tenet we will see but hey internet when you’re right you’re right. He is super broody bruce wayne the problem with robert pattinson’s batman. In this movie is the fact that there’s no real differential between bruce wayne and batman. My favorite interpretations of batman are really you have three characters working in one body. You have bruce wayne when it’s just him hanging out with alfred no other eyes are around. You have bruce wayne when he’s in the public eye when he plays up that public persona and then you have the batman and the three of them feel differently. You have the id ego and super ego thing going on this movie. He’s broody batman then he’s hanging out with alfred who really andy circus is. Alfred’s only in it for a couple scenes not in it much because for the most part he is out there doing his thing as batman and alfred’s just not a part of the dynamic. He’s not part of the equation but okay super broody batman he’s super broody when he’s with Alfred.

 How about the public eye, there’s one scene where he goes into public and also he’s the same kind of broody he’s just the same guy in all three personas again. Probably a conscious effort they wanted to really show how much gotham’s getting everyone down which worked for Gordon. In this movie for me when he’s bruce wayne it just it’s a logical leap that he would have to people and put on a smile because like well don’t want people knowing that he’s possibly batman.  He’d have a lineup of a bunch of possible batman suspects should be able to pick him out immediately. Yeah i think broody billionaire with way too much time on his hands. I just think he’s batman just a guess. What do i win johnny like he’s not even trying to hide it. It made the character feel so one-dimensional and boring and that’s on top of the fact that when he’s batman he doesn’t feel like batman he doesn’t feel mythical. He just feels like a guy went to a sporting goods store and got some gear now he’s batman.

 I feel like i could go to rei drop some cash become batman tomorrow. It kind of feels like in mask of the phantasm when bruce wayne did his trial run as a vigilante.No one really took him seriously it’s that same kind of vibe. But for the entire movie and he has a batman costume and you might be thinkable these are as early days as batman. He’ll get there eventually but this movie does illustrate it says that he’s been batman for two years which i believe is longer than christian bale’s batman was batman by the end of the dark knight. Again probably a conscious effort it’s just not one that i felt paid off for a batman movie. He did have a good batman voice i’ll say that he wasn’t like excuse me a psychopath oh like you know he just lowered his voice. In the end the movie the batman had a lot that worked for me the overall tone of gotham the fact that this is the darkest movie i’ve seen since dark city that works too.

It has tones of long Halloween, it has tones of batman eternal. The thing that impressed me about this movie is how jam-packed it is it’s not just like, oh the riddler comes into town now it’s batman versus the riddler. There are a lot of pieces in this gotham chessboard that are on the move. The batman is an amazing world of gotham i want to see more from this world of gotham and although i wish i was more invested with the batman character himself. I had a good time with this movie and its world that would be a good time.