It also does that trope where it has the revolutionary "villain" fighting to expose the systemic corruption be/act so unhinged and do evil things as to give justification that their critiques are wrong. It's a really well made, entertaining movie, but it's themes are just such weak centrist bs that I couldn't ignore it.
I wrote about it more in-depth here if you're interested: https://letterboxd.com/peytobrock/film/the-batman/
EDIT: this is a write-up by a critic I really like that's even better than what I wrote: https://www.patreon.com/posts/63389248
this is what all superhero movies these days
villain: I have good ideas
audience: damn, these ideas are good
villain: unrelated episode of sociopathic violence
audience: damn, i guess those ideas are bad
hero: first world free market rules-based world order with consent from the international community (US/EU/NATO only)
audience: damn i guess i'm a liberal capitalist now
The Levine Code: If you depict a Radical, they have to murder a child
Comic book stories have literally been this way since the Comic Book Code. Writers who wanted to introduce subversive ideas to their audience would cast them as villains. It's why all the 60s villains care about climate, civil rights, western imperialism, etc.