The Batman

Did I see a different cut then everybody else? I see so many 4's and 5's for this, and I just don't get it. This was BORING. So very, very, very, very boring. A tedious slog that felt twice its bloated, self-indulgent THREE HOUR runtime. A convoluted plot with way too many characters that are lazily and ineffectively introduced to the point where I felt like the movie needed a flow-chart. Selina Kyle is unnecessary, and while she isn't the worst cinematic Catwoman in history, she's borderline. And you could cut here and The Penguin out of this movie and not lose anything. Both are unnecessary. Robert Pattinson is barely Bruce Wayne, and I mean that in the literal sense; out of three hours, he spends MAYBE ten minutes outside the cowl? There's a scene between him and the Riddler where the Riddler tells him the mask is his true face; considering it's pretty much the only face we see him in all movie long, that statement is more than a little on the nose. I appreciate that they actually wanted to tell a detective story with this one, but the mystery is never as engaging as the movie wants you to think it is, and the movie never successfully pulls all the disparate strings of the conspiracy together. I won't say it's bad -- we know the benchmark for bad in the Batman cinematic universe -- but this is definitely not good.