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

  • DivineChaos100 [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Yeah i had huge Joker vibes from the Riddler (i mean Joaquin Phoenix' Joker). I liked the subtext of "men will literally become a masked avenger instead of going to therapy" though.

    spoiler

    Now that i slept on it i feel like the acting carried it a LOT. Like i couldn't really point out anyone who did a bad job. The story itself suffers from the thing you mentioned (though i don't think it says electoral action is good, until the end i also waited for the "vote dems" bullshit, but when Selina tells him to ditch Gotham cause it won't change and he basically says "yeah i know" negates this imo) and it's kinda pointlessly long.