Summary (major spoilers ahead!)
Bruce Wayne is just starting to become Batman and he goes around and helps the police stop crimes. One day, Don Mitchell, the mayor, is killed by someone calling himself the Riddler. He gives Batman ciphers that slowly lead him to his next victims and, later, his identity. Batman visits Oz Cobblepot, aka the Penguin, due to pictures the Riddler released of the late mayor and a mystery girl. He meets Selina Kyle there, and he follows her and catches her burgling the late mayor as Catwoman. When they get back to Kyle’s apartment and she realizes her roommate is gone, they see that the Riddler posted a video showing him about to kill Police Commissioner Pete Savage. He then teams up with her to find out information about how Savage was connected to the Iceberg Lounge. Kyle learns about a rat in a drug bust case from the DA, Gil Colson.
The Riddler makes Colson go missing for a few days but he returns when Mitchell’s funeral is happening. The Riddler makes Colson admit on a live stream his wrongdoings but dies before he could tell the world who the rat was. Batman eventually figures out that Cobblepot must be the rat but when he goes to confront him with Officer James Gordon, he sees that Cobblepot and Carmine Falcone are still running the drug operation that was allegedly busted years ago. Catwoman steals a ton of cash from Falcone while at the drug lab causing Batman to have an intense car chase just to talk to Cobblepot with Gordon. Cobblepot leads Batman to discover a website that leads him to figure out that he, Bruce Wayne, was the Riddler’s next target; however, Alfred Pennyworth ended up being the one hurt.
When Wayne wasn’t hurt, the Riddler revealed secrets about his father that made Wayne visit Falcone. Falcone told him that he thinks Maroni, an old drug lord, killed his parents but after Wayne visited Pennyworth, he found out Falcone actually killed his parents. Batman, Catwoman, and Gordon found out that Falcone also killed Kyle’s roommate and that Falcone is Kyle’s father. After Catwoman and Batman broke into the Iceberg Lounge and fought Falcone and he was getting arrested, the Riddler shot and killed him from an apartment. Riddler was found, arrested, and revealed to be a man named Edward Nashton. Batman visited Nashton in prison and what he was saying made Batman go back to the apartment. He figured out the Riddler’s master plan, which was to blow up the seawalls and have his followers kill everyone. Batman, Catwoman, and Gordon were able to stop his followers before they killed everyone in the city. The movie ends with Kyle leaving town, Penguin wanting to take power, Batman and Gordon keeping the city safe, and Nashton making a mysterious, laughing friend in prison.
My Thoughts on the Movie
This movie might have been long, but it was really good. The whole movie was shot amazingly and nothing was as it seemed. All the riddles and crunched-for-time scenarios had me at the edge of my seat. I liked how action-packed it was; there was never a dull moment. I liked the dynamics between Batman and Catwoman and Bruce and Alfred. They clashed with each other at one moment and the next they were totally in sync. Robert Pattinson did a phenomenal job in this movie. He played Batman perfectly and had an interesting take on Bruce Wayne. I am glad that the movie didn’t take ten minutes to explain how Bruce’s parents died. It was just a bit of information that was mentioned when needed and I thought that made the movie more enjoyable since I didn’t have to learn about how he became Batman again. I really hope they make a sequel because I really like that it focuses on the beginning stages of being Batman.
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