After the last two episodes of the reboot of The Planet of the Apesa beautiful vampire film (Let me enter) and finally CloverfieldMatt Reeves resurrects The Batman, on screens Wednesday, March 2. A fruitful perseverance in the fantastic, as confirmed by this new episode of the Dark Knight saga, darker than ever, interpreted by Robert Pattinson in the title role, alongside Zoë Kravitz in Catwoman, Colin Farrell in Penguin, Paul Dano and John Turturro.
After two years of donning the Batman costume to eradicate crime from Gotham City, Bruce Wayne is more alone than ever. The police reproach him for stepping on his toes, and he is the target of the underworld who want to kill him. The vigilante billionaire is now provoked by a killer who is decimating the city’s elite, accused of corruption. On his way, Batman meets another vigilante, Catwoman, who wants to avenge a murdered friend, and he rubs shoulders with the Penguin, an underworld executive, before facing The Riddler, the mysterious destroyer of a gangrene city.
In his Dark Knight trilogy, Christopher Nolan portrayed an insider in the arts of individual combat, to which he lent technological tools thanks to his fortune to fight the underworld. If Batman, according to Nolan, was lonely, that of Matt Reeves is even more so. Beyond the police he has alienated, the inhabitants of Gotham, themselves, complain about this free electron whose each intervention does damage, while he only thinks of protecting them. . The enemy comes from everywhere, as if he wanted to defend them in spite of themselves.
This individual revenge, born of the trauma of the murder of his parents committed before his eyes, takes another turn under the new light given by Matt Reeves. Nouvelle also gives in its more intimate relationship with Catwoman, which has been ambiguous until now. This fragility humanizes the vigilante by lending him more feelings and doubts, an introspection that enriches the simple vengeful and monolithic figure of the character. There is obviously no escape from the fights and forced pursuits, brilliantly directed, but the best of the film is elsewhere.
This realism in the personification of the hero rubs off on the whole film. Gotham, alter ego of New York, is designated as such, since we recognize Broadway. We are far from the Gothic city of Tim Burton’s 1989 and 1992 films, which Christopher Nolan had already calmed down. The accessories are also less customized and the characters less made up. Darkness, on the other hand, is a constant. Gotham is an always rainy, disenchanted night city. His image intersects with the “dark” trend taken by superhero films, Marvel or DC, for the past ten years. Matt Reeves is no exception, but manages to give new colors to the “Dark Knight”, by digging into the character, without ever neglecting the action.
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Kind : Thriller
Director: Matt Reeves
Actors : Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Colin Farrell, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro, Peter Sarsgaard, Andy Serkis
Duration : 2h55
Country : United States
Exit : March 2, 2022
Distributer : Warner Bros. France
Summary: Two years of walking the streets as Batman and instilling fear in criminals have brought Bruce Wayne to the heart of Gotham City’s darkness. With only a few trusted allies – Alfred Pennyworth, Lt. James Gordon – among the city’s corrupt network of officials and figures, the lone vigilante has established himself as the sole embodiment of revenge among his fellow citizens. When a killer preys on Gotham’s elite through a series of sadistic schemes, a trail of cryptic clues sends the world’s greatest detective on an investigation into the underworld, where he encounters characters such as Selina Kyle. , aka Catwoman, Oswald Cobblepot, aka the Penguin, Carmine Falcone and Edward Nashton, aka the Riddler. As the evidence mounts and the scope of the culprit’s plans becomes clear, Batman must forge new relationships, unmask the culprit, and restore some semblance of justice amid the abuse of power and corruption plaguing Gotham City. since a long time.