Batman was great. I’m
gonna put that out there first, before discussing properly. I really enjoyed it, the sets were great, the
acting was great, the story was…only a little incomprehensible, but mostly
good.
I’m going to try to avoid spoilers as best I can, but will
probably fail, so be forewarned if you don’t want any.
We start out eight years later, after the events of
TDK. Bruce Wayne has been holed up in
his rebuilt mansion, sulking over his disabled leg and tarnished
reputation. The legacy of Harvey Dent
has cleaned up the city but good. A law
was passed that somehow managed to get every criminal off the street, so Gotham
is relatively safe.
Of course, things start going crazy right away. Bane, a crazy strong guy with a mask that is
explained in the third act, comes to town, and takes over the sewers. Joseph Gordon Levitt’s Officer Blake has a
suspicion, and convinces Commissioner Gordon into the sewers with him. Gordon almost immediately gets shot, and we
are thrust into the action proper.
Bruce Wayne is fairly convinced he will never be Batman
again, until Selena Kyle steals his mother’s pearls. This gets him into action, and he figures out
a way to fix his leg, instill Miranda Tate(a heretofor unmentioned person that
he trusts because she wants to create clean energy) as head of Wayne
Enterprises, and fully instill himself in society to get his pearls back from
Selena.
And then things really hit the fan, as he convinces Selena
to help him find Bane. When they do,
Bane breaks him. Literally. Broken back and all that, pulled straight
from the comic books. We shoot off into
act two, and the end of my synopsis.
So, to actually review.
This was an interesting movie, for sure.
It was a titch distracting that everyone and their mother knew the
secret identity. Batman, if “you have a
mask to protect the ones you love,” you really need to work on keeping your
identity secret.
