"The Batman" is not a movie, it's actually just a four-part mini-series that is shown one after the other, in one piece, as a film. Just like "Dune" and many other new movies, that are unnecessarily long, tell the story extremely slow and seem to last forever. What's wrong with a 90 minute or at most 2 hour movie? What's wrong with a fast paced movie with lots of action? Why do movies suddenly have to be 3 hours long or more? This makes most movies boring. That goes for "Dune", "Tenet" and many others and it also goes for this movie "The Batman"! Had the film been an hour shorter, the simple story could have been told fascinatingly, as it should be in a movie. But now the film drags on like a soap opera, with long-winded shots of stares and boring dialogue that add nothing to it. Even the music, shamelessly borrowed from John Williams, cannot ad any to it. It can still be a good movie, when cut down to 90 minutes. In fact, only the last James Bond movie has managed to captivate the viewer for 3 hours, but all the other more than 2 hour films of recent times all bear the stamp of the HBO, NetFlix, Prime, Apple and Disney series: slowness, to keep the viewer streaming as long as possible, so they don't go to the competitor. For a 4 part miniseries I would have given "The Batman" 7 stars, for a 90 minute movie probably 8 starts, but now it deserves no more than 4.
No spoilers here. I only want to tell you that if you don't adore and love hip hop like crazy, you won't find this entertaining, because it's nothing more than a 3 hour bad rap, without the girlz in bikini. The most overrated musicals I've ever seen so far.
I really don't understand why this is so popular. It's boring, horribly slow, the story repeats itself again and again, terrible acting.... Why? Oh I really tryed watching it, thinking "it must be me; it must be good; do your best; make an effort", but I after season 1 I still couldn't find anything that entertained me, not even a bit. It just annoyed me. So just keep the hype going without me!
The two stars are for the beautiful images, effects and costumes. It's bubble gum for the eyes. Nice, but it brings you nothing. Think of man walking so slow you can't tell if he's going forward or backward of standing still. If you like to watch that for three hours, this movie is definately for you. If you don't, skip it.
Great (voice) actors but still a bad movie.
It's a very dark adaptation from the original (already dark) tale as told by Rudyard Kiplin. There's nothing light about it, and certenly not or children. But the darkness isn't what's wrong in this movie. It are the images. The pictures. The look and feel of the animals. They look like a mix between (badly) animated and CGI (going wrong). I couldn't relate to those creatures. They never feel real. Never consistent with the darkness of the story. It felt like watching a CGI-version of Goofy playing the leading role in a Sam Riami-film.
A waste of time (my time) and money (spend on this movie). Sorry.
Good acting, nice music, beautiful colours, great camera shots, absolute vintage, 30 minutes to long.
To long to be good! Cut out 20 minutes of pointless dialogue and silent staring and it's probably a better movie.
Good acting. It reminded me a bit of "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf", but then without a plot.
