Gotham City is portrayed as dark, evil and full of criminals. Fortunately, Gotham can count on Batman, who arrives several times (always it seem at night) to save the day.
The beginning of the movie implies that Batman has just donned the mask and cape and has started how his personal war on crime. Other than that, we get very little about his back ground, though we do later learn it was the Joker who killed his parents.
I didn’t like it how 1930s era gangsters were roaming about in 1980s America—that was too far fetched. In general, I just didn’t care for how the setting of the story was portrayed, too dark in a comic way. The acting was generally okay, Jack Nicholson gives the best performance in the movie as the Joker; the directing wasn’t impressive, but the Joker gives the best performance in the movie. That’s it right there—the movie concentrated more on the concepts and characterization of the Joker rather than Batman (the title of the movie is Batman). While both Batman and Bruce Wayne are in the movie frequently, more time overall was spent with the Joker unfortunately, even though this is a Batman movie. This same problem would later continue into Batman’s sequels, all which got worse and worse.
The movie had a few problems with its cast and crew. Tim Burton was not exactly the right choice for director and Michael Keaton’s casting as Wayne/Batman was a blunder. Parts of the movie felt a little too dull and lifeless. On the bright side, it was a smash hit at the box-office and received generally positive critical reviews. Batman did not satisfy me.
Grade: C
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