![]() Those still conscious whimper and writhe quietly. He emerges from the darkness and makes the creeps curse their own mothers for ever birthing them. A man gets off at a subway stop and is hassled, cornered, threatened by a group of facepainted goons. Is a tool.” “I am the shadows.” Halting stuff like that. The Batman (Pattinson) speaks in voiceover narration taken from his sadboy psycho journaling: “Fear. It’s precisely the type of place that can be described with one-word sentences. With a carpetlayer’s tool, by a wailing lunatic in a mouth-muffling green mask that looks like the unsettling collaborative product of an s&m house and a military-surplus outlet. He’s being murdered right in front of us. Gotham City might not be big enough for two GOAT Batman films. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hey, The Dark Knight – you just might be on notice. Director Matt Reeves (Cloverfield, the last two Planet of the Apes films) and star Robert Pattinson prove to be quite a, dare I say, dynamic duo, revitalizing a done-to-death character/franchise with a fresh aesthetic and ruminative depth that translated to more than $750 million in worldwide box office sales. Why else would it be titled The Batman (now streaming on HBO Max)? Audacious. This is not just a Batman movie – it’s THE Batman movie.
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