
Continuing the reality of setting a comic book character in a (mostly) realistic Gotham City presents the playful and cryptic villain as essentially no more than a deranged loser with access to the internet a keyboard warrior and put-upon bully who blames society for his own obvious flaws. Packing in three familiar Batman villains in the way of Penguin, Catwoman, and The Riddler, the movie does its best to keep the Nolan practicalities that made The Dark Knight trilogy so solid, but with the flair of the character's inborn theatrics.Īt the center of a very good (if certainly overlong) take on Batman, is Paul Dano's The Riddler.



2022's The Batman may well be the darkest outing for The Caped Crusader yet.
