it is batman, how bad can it be? and it's loyal to the comic. if you are a fan of batman, you will definitely like this.

One of the better offerings from the DC Animated Universe, which is actually pretty high praise.

Much better than Batman Begins due to better pacing and better acting. My only major complaint is the somewhat barren environments, empty streets during the daytime, and rather thin crowds. It's as if the producers tried to save money by only doing a 75% job of each scene, rather than hiring more animators to fill every shot with people/cars/crowds. The low numbers of people, and cars drawn into each shot detracts significantly from the sense of scale.

Very loyal to the coimc, which is both its greatest stength and weakness

This isn't some Hollywood fairy tale cooked up by Burton, Nolan or god forbid Schumacher. This is the real Batman. Only significant problem is the voice of Bruce Wayne; which unfortunately narrates the majority of the film. Well animated and Bryan Cranston gives the stand out performance as the hard nosed Gordon I know and love.

I am a fan of the original comic book. This animation movie follows the comic book step by step and is very loyal for it. They almost capture the same feeling what comes to dark story and visual side. Too bad that the movie is too short. They should made more flesh around the bones of the comic book and there for make the story more deep that it would work in a movie.

No one goes into a Batman film hoping to see the story of Commissioner Gordon. We come for the Bat and this movie punishes you with focusing on Gordon throughout most of the film (spoiler alert: they made him boring as hell). Hardly any plot to speak off, barely any Batman, and just an obvious setup for future films. Plus I have Arkham City sitting right next to me and this just pails in comparison. Not hiring Kevin Conroy for Batman was stupid as well. Terrible all around.

Pretty good workup of the Frank Miller classic. Something to tide you over before the next full feature film.

A completely solid telling of a classic graphic novel. It has pretty much everything you want from a Batman animated movie. It's dark, it's got fun action. The only problem is -- as Langelund said -- the uneven storytelling. I feel like it's way too much crammed in. If you could make this another hour longer then I imagine that'd be fixed, but I guess we'll never know.

Dark, atmospheric aesthetics and uneven storytelling.

Very enjoyable. The animation is great, the tone is dark and the voice acting is good. For what is only an hour long movie it really is very involving and actually quite intense. But therein lies the problem! At an hour long everything feels really rather rushed and cramped. It really could have done with being considerably longer, and no doubt the quality of the source material would have allowed for it.

Not a good transition from comic to movie at all. The voice acting for Bruce Wayne was especially grimacing.

It's nice to see Gordon's side of the story, but ultimately it's an uneven tale that struggles to really provide much in the way of entertainment.

Almost too loyal to the source material. Not much has changed in the transition, and the little details that have are actually improvements. Sadly the voice acting is pretty flat all around. McKenzie is an awful Batman and a worse Bruce Wayne. I hate sounding like a Kevin Conroy fanboy, but come on, why even go to anyone else for Batman? Even more disappointing is Cranston, who is obviously phoning it in. More for people who are too lazy to read the original story than for fans of it.

it's more of Commissioner Gordon's story than Batman's but it's still surprisingly good... Voiced by Bryan Cranston, it can't get better than that