![]() It’s a fresh dynamic for the character on screen – one that borrows from several DC comic-book runs, including Frank Miller’s ‘Year One’ – and so is his ever-evolving relationship with the cops. He’s forever struggling to catch up, following a trail of breadcrumbs left by someone smarter and more in control than he is. Here, the brooding R-Batz is forced to turn gumshoe, leaving him to holster his core skill set (kicking, punching, swooping) in favour of cerebral puzzle-solving that traps him in the one place he most hates being: his own mind. There’s actually a lot of potential in the idea of a superhero and crime thriller genre mash-up. ![]() He’s basically Bane with Reddit, and The Dark Knight Rises parallels grow as the movie settles into its not-lean runtime. The Riddler (Paul Dano, somewhere beneath the latex) skulks the city in fetishwear, using livestreams and the media to lay bare the city’s corruption and build a following among the type of people who use the phrase ‘deep state’ in conversation. The plot has Robert Pattinson’s Dark Knight on the hunt for a serial killer who has been offing Gotham’s political classes, leaving riddles in his wake. Did Prince really soundtrack this guy? Where did that funky Bruce Wayne go? The brooding R-Batz is forced to turn gumshoe A more unsmiling, clenched Batman you couldn’t imagine. Director Matt Reeves brings the apocalyptic doominess that hallmarked his Planet of the Apes franchise and a lot of the brooding DC house style that has lingered since the Christopher Nolan days – as well as the unmistakable influence of David Fincher’s Seven and Zodiac. If ‘dark, rain-soaked superhero reboot’ sounds done to death, the latest Batman may not be for you. So much you wonder if we’re about to witness the first Dark Knight to whip out a Batbrella and start singin’ in the rain.
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