Synopsis
In his second year fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City connected to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.
The Review
This is a detective story first and a superhero movie second, which is exactly the pitch it needed to be. Reeves shoots Gotham like a rain-soaked noir rather than a comic-book playground, and Pattinson's Batman is genuinely unsettling in the early scenes, more feral than composed. The Riddler subplot leans into internet-radicalization territory in a way that feels uncomfortably current rather than cartoonish. At nearly three hours it overstays its welcome slightly in the third act, but the atmosphere never lets up, and the Batmobile chase remains one of the best vehicle sequences in the genre.