Not a bad movie but tonally it was all over the place
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The_Baba — 9 years ago(December 19, 2016 08:41 AM)
I liked this, at the core it had a good story, the performances of Batman and Red Hood were good, not too impressed with this Joker, a bit forced but it wasn't a horrible attempt and he served the purpose of the story, found Black Mask more interesting. Great action.
However the tone felt a bit off. At first it's dark dirty Gotham and a brooding Batman, we get a gritty opening credits but then it's Robin The Boy Wonder who's not wearing any pants! Though it wasn't Batman (1966) camp but Batman The Animated Series camp, which I have no problem with, but when you mix that in with a throat cutting Joker who's burning people alive and a Red Hood that's decapitating mob lieutenants, it becomes a bit silly.
Especially at the end where we see the flashback of Batman and Robin getting ready to go out on their first night together, it's pretty off. It's a nice emotional scene but compared with a lot of the other stuff, it's like they're faced with criminals and a Gotham more extreme and violent than even the Nolan films yet their characterizations don't add up.
Batman TAS got the balance perfectly. And better voice acting to. Here it felt too much like theater acting at times while TAS felt more like a film.
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