The Batman is yet another reboot of Batman. It does start a bit more in media res. Batman (Robert Pattinson) has been operating for a bit now, long enough to have an ally in Gotham PD Lt James Gordon (Jeffrey Wright). The first masked villain develops, The Riddler (Paul Dano), striking from the shadows to murder the DA and other Gotham notables. Each time he leaves a clue leading Batman into the criminal underworld where he meets and makes a shaky alliance with Selina Kyle (Zoë Kravitz) who has her own revenge goals (and at this time everyone thinks Batman is more about darkness and vengeance so he is feared by both bad guys and good guys)...

This is a very dark version of Batman and Gotham. It's always night and raining in this film. Gotham is a city on the way down and Batman can only relay on his butler Alfred Pennyworth (Andy Serkis), Gordon and maybe Kyle. I do like that in the first half of the film he does more detective work than maybe all other Batman movies combined. I also like that Batman's origin story is more of an aside and alluded to -- I don't need to see it yet again.

It's a fairly long film, 2:45 hours. It's fairly slow paced with lots of tension and few action scenes building up to the big battle at the end. Although a good film and pretty well done, much like Joker (2019) it's a bit too heavy for me to ever see it again.