Batman, The (DVD)

Okay, first let me start by saying that I have never seen the Twilight series, nor have I seen this actor in anything else. Second, let me inform you that Batman was never my favorite hero. I thought he was okay, but I preferred Superman and even Spider-Man over Batman, so none of that has anything to do with my review here.Now, having said that, I have still seen all the Batman movies with all the different actors. None of them were "great" movies in my opinion. They were just okay. If I had to choose, I would have said Ben Affleck's Batman is my favorite and in my opinion, Batman vs. Superman and Justice League had the best Batman. That was before I saw this movie.This movie, however, is really, really good. This takes place early in Batman's career, 2 years into it, and it is almost a prototype Batman. His suit is more realistic looking, his gadgets are more primitive and he doesn't have an endless supply of different gadgets yet. Even his Batmobile is very basic and more "mobile" than "bat". Commissioner Gordon is not yet the Commissioner of Gotham City. Bruce Wayne himself is still young and is just learning who he is and who The Batman is going to become. And he is one BAD dude! This Batman is angry and doesn't like criminals a whole lot. When he fights, it is deliberate and he fights to take someone down as quickly as possible. There's no playing around. This batman takes no bs from ANYONE, including the police!This movie really captures The Batman's early years and shows him struggling to change from Vengeance to Justice! In all honesty, If ALL the other Batman movies and even the comics had shown these early years of a struggling Batman, he would have been much higher on my favorite superhero list.Even the make-up and wardrobe for the bad guys is by far the most realistic and best I have ever seen. The Cat-Woman has a very primitive costume. The Penguin FINALLY looks like a man AND does still somewhat resemble a penguin somehow. It's amazing. The mob boss is a likable and believable character. The Riddler confused me a little bit at first because to me he looked like Bane, another Batman adversary. But his wardrobe grew on me and I can accept this costume as the Riddler. I don't really have a choice anyway. The crimes and gangs are much more realistic and as a whole, "Sorry Ben Affleck" this is now my favorite Batman movie and favorite Batman to date.I highly recommend buying it. Don't let the gossip about Twilight boy interfere with you watching a good movie. Accept it as the young Batman just starting out and you should love this movie as well. Especially if you are a true Batman fan, which I am not.And as an update: I've had the dvd for about a week now and I've already watched it 5 times. This Batman is just so cool and especially in the beginning when he moves all slow and deliberate, using fear just as much as fighting skills to defeat his enemies! Just buy it already.Second Update: Okay, it's been several months now, and I've watched this movie so many times I can recite the whole thing word for word. Let me just add that I am 49 years old and as mentioned earlier, Batman was never one of my favorites. I liked him, but he was way down on my superhero list. But I like this movie so much I'm almost tempted to check out the Twilight series. I don't think I added in the fact that this movie has only a little Bruce Wayne and a lot of The Batman, in costume. Which I think is part of why I like this movie so much. I get bored with the "people" side of my heroes. I watch because I want to see the heroes in costume like I saw them in the superfriends cartoons in the late 70's, early 80's. I mean, come on ... that's why we bought the comic books and watched the cartoons and bought the action figures IN COSTUME. Who ever played with a Bruce Wayne or a Clark Kent action figure? I know I never even SAW one in the toy stores.But anyway, I digress. I've read all the negative reviews here and although I support the right for everyone to have their own opinions, I truly don't understand them. Maybe they're all Marvel fans at heart? I know for me, it was DC first (cus I'm old) and Marvel are like the younger wannbe's trying to impress Superman.

Love this movie! Everyone in the cast is excellent in their roles. A very different kind of Batman film. Very "dark." I definitely would recommend getting this film. Robert Pattinson is very good as The Batman, as is Zoe Kravitz. Then there's Paul Dano as the Riddler and Colin Farrell as the Penguin who are such excellent foils! A must see movie!

One of my recent favorites

The Batman is a very good movie overall but it falls short in one place and feels a little weird in another. It has a comic book feel without spelling it out but fans will see the connections between the narration, world and plot-lines. They chose to saturate the film in black, red and orange hues which helps set the tone and creates a different, more serious atmosphere. Where I thought it fell short is while they're unraveling the Riddler's manifesto, Batman is always seen in the suit but unnecessarily so. This works against him and in fact, everytime Batman is in the suit and there's a humanizing moment, it works against him in the same way Bane's mask prevented us from seeing Bane's true mad genius in Dark Knight Rises.My impression is that this movie was a big departure from the previous iterations of the cartoony Batman, world and characters. Perhaps it's this cartoony world that viewers have come to love about Batman, is that they've grown attached to it and why this more realistic version of Batman has garnered so much negative reviews but I really think they should stick with it but they should aim to be more practical in some places like Batman doesn't always need to be in a suit except for when he's going to fight bad guys. I'd like to say this DC Movie is in-line with the Batman world with the ultra-realistic Joker, starring J. Phoenix, and all future movies that will be made with that form of realism for Batman should have been made clear for viewers. I think one way they could have done that is to have Batman doing the detective work without wearing the suit, which is a major part of the first third of the movie. Same could have gone for Catwoman, when we do see her. That would allow viewers to get a feel for the new Batman and his new world of Gotham, in the same way that J. Phoenix did for Joker.This is a good Batman but I think they over did it with the emphasis of "a Gotham city in peril" and the psychopathic elements of the main Villain, which became tired and maybe even a little weird, mid-way through and I felt what was being rehashed didn't need further analysis - how everyone in Gotham seemed to be affected by what was reported on the news, The Carmine and Catwoman stuff, and the "presence" of Batman when he enters the scene, almost seeming intimidating in his suit. It would have been better if these scenes were R. Pattinson wearing casual clothing and a trench coat. Perhaps he would have a tattoo of the bat symbol or a bat on his wrist or something to give the viewer the needed connection. Everything else, the mafia world, Batman and Catwoman were more personal and evolved, and the martial arts choreography. The actors were great and I think they pulled off what they set out to do: a Batman that was more true to the comics that was a little over the top in a couple places. It could have been a great movie but it's still a very good movie in many places. The second hour tends to drag since it rehashes a lot of ground covered in the first hour, which was fun and the third hour is also fun.

I like the movie it's good

Dark, but a favorite of our teen.