The recent film history of everyone’s favorite bat-themed vigilante has been chaotic, to say the least.
After the phenomenal and almost unrepeatable high of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy, whoever donned the Batsuit after Christian Bale was bound to be under a lot of pressure.
That rang true with the Dceu’s version of Bruce Wayne played by Ben Affleck.
Despite initial backlash, Affleck was an overall solid Batman in terms of his performance, but the ultra-violent version of him seen in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and Justice League (2017) rubbed many fans the wrong way.
With DC’s first attempt at creating a connected cinematic universe being messy and controversial, it was clear that the next Batman needed a clean slate.
Thankfully, we got that with Matt Reeves’s The Batman (2022), which introduced a brutal and gritty version of Gotham City complete with one of the darkest stories…
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