With a strong influence from David Fincher, this thriller film reinvented one of pop culture’s most iconic characters – Film News

A new adventure for Robert Pattinson.

It’s inevitable to feel trapped in the eternal return of Hollywood franchises, with reboots that simply try to continue a formula that seemed completed or even exhausted. Characters that follow a certain line or tone, because deviating from it can cause furious reactions from fans.

Superheroes can be the most frustrating experience in this sense, because there are certain characters who will no longer be able to break out of certain patterns, but will be rescued and rebooted anyway. At least, if it’s not possible to break out of self-imposed seriousness, we can have films like Batman (2022) trying to go deeper than the previous films.

With Robert Pattinson playing the Dark Knight, in a younger version than we are used to seeing, director Matt Reeves offers a crime thriller film with very clear but well-directed influences. An overwhelming audiovisual spectacle that was a phenomenon upon its debut and can be seen streaming on Prime Video and Max.

In it, we see Bruce Wayne in his new role as a night watchman for a few years, causing the Gotham police to turn a blind eye as he attacks crime and corruption in the city’s underworld. Suddenly, a new enemy emerges on the eve of the election, murdering victims and leaving disturbing puzzles for Batman to solve before the violence escalates further.

Reeves tries not to break the dark tone and layer of “prestige” that Christopher Nolan and Zack Snyder managed to impose on the character during this century. It tries to take it into slightly more ambiguous territory with the use of physical force and violence against criminals, showing some of the film’s most interesting references.

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Although aesthetically it is easy to see the influence of David Fincher and psychopath investigation films such as Se7en, its vigilante air and underworld stories are reminiscent of 1970s police thrillers such as Klute and Operation France.

Reeves finds there the most exciting way to emphasize the character’s detective character, something that other adaptations have not been so interested in. Thus, the director manages to make a big Hollywood blockbuster not necessarily look like an action film, which is more dispersed throughout its almost three hours, and more focused on the process and the complex relationships with other characters.

The film finds a way to distinguish the vigilante side from the superhero side, with the character learning the need for the latter over the former to truly save the city. Reeves does this with an incredible technical display through Greig Fraser’s cinematography and Michael Giacchino’s music, which helps offset his narrative excesses, leaving a truly remarkable film in the process.

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