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

  • ThisMachinePostsHog [they/them, he/him]
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    3 years ago

    There were so many moments where I was like, "All right already, let's move this along, please." They crammed so much stuff into this movie, they could've easily trimmed at least an hour off of it.