‘The Batman’: Unspooling like a modern-day horror, ‘The Batman’ was always designed to shock and director Matt Reeves left no stone unturned to throw his audience into the belly of the beast that was Gotham, ripped apart at its very heart with greed and corruption. Reeves rips off the kid gloves to go darker, bolder to create a Batman that walks the fine line between a hero and a villain. Robert Pattinson’s Batman or Vengeance, as he calls himself, is so much more that any one of us could have envisioned him to be. His bitterness, his pain and the memories that haunt him are the fuel that keep him patrolling the streets of Gotham at night, each of which are etched in Pattinson’s every expression and body language. Yet, it’s Paul Dano’s Riddler that lingers long after, a character so genuinely disturbing that he even makes Jigsaw’s brutality in the ‘Saw’ movies appear like child’s play.
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