That the last 30-plus years have yielded so many serious (and mostly celebrated) Batman movies has perhaps led to a misconception that the character works only when he’s grounded and miserable. ‘The Batman’ Is the Batman Movie We Deserve ‘The Batman’ Exit Survey (Please, Matt Reeves, don’t get any ideas.)
The only way to get more bleak than The Batman is if Bruce Wayne was strapped down to a chair by the Joker and forced to rewatch his parents’ deaths on a loop with Nine Inch Nails blaring in the background. Ben Affleck’s Batman literally branding criminals like they’re cattle-that’s simply unsustainable. Live-action Batmen in the 21st century have followed a pattern of escalating grittiness-ie. But while The Batman excelled as a superhero-infused procedural, the film also feels like an inflection point for its title character. It’s a testament to Pattinson’s performance that a grown man dressed up as a bat earnestly referring to himself as “the shadows” somehow works-his Batman was as moody and intimidating as advertised. As the Caped Crusader grumbles in an early voice-over before beating the crap out of some nameless goons: “They think I’m hiding in the shadows, but I am the shadows.” (Shit talk the Time Lord at your own peril.) It’s way too early to have a definitive takeaway on whether The Batman is the best adaptation yet, but to give Matt Reeves’s film credit, it managed to make Batman (now played by Robert Pattinson) take himself even more seriously than the ultra-serious Nolan trilogy.
Nevertheless, The Batman was up for the challenge: One of the film’s producers, Dylan Clark, went so far as to tell Nolan that they were out to make the best Batman movie ever.
chose to reboot Batman yet again, it was inevitable that the shadow of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy would loom over any adaptations.
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