Screenplay:
Bob GoodmanComposer:
Christopher DrakeCast:
Peter Weller, Ariel Winter, Michael McKean, David Selby, James Patrick Stuart, Danny Jacobs, Greg Eagles, Michael Emerson, Mark Valley, Carlos Alazraqui (more)VOD (1)
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Based on Frank Miller’s celebrated graphic novel. In a bleak and ominous future, superheroes have fallen out of favor, including Batman. Bruce Wayne hung up his cape at least a decade ago. Most of the others have been forced into retirement. Facing the downside of middle age, Bruce now buoys up his life with racing cars and liquor. Yet the bat still beckons as he watches his city fall prey to gangs of barbaric criminals known as the mutants. But it’s the return of Harvey Dent as Two-Face that finally has Bruce donning the Dark Knight’s cowl once again. Batman takes on a new Robin as a sidekick, and returns to the mutant world to fight the leader again, but this time using strategy to beat his opponent’s superior strength. After the murderous mutant is publicly defeated, Batman becomes the mutant’s new leader. For the time being Gotham can be at relative peace. (Warner Bros. AU)
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Part one of The Dark Knight Returns was already good, but part two is a whole other level of greatness. You hardly ever get to see so many great scenes, perfectly crafted dialogues and situations you'd never even dreamed of. Part two is not only much darker, more violent and brutal, but, above all, incredibly emotionally packed. The whole movie is so intense and frantic that it’s just one great fight after another. The whole part with Joker is something absolutely incredible, and his duel with Batman made me read all the books. And the final duel with Superman? A blast! I'm already looking forward to Znyder adapting it to the big screen. “It's finally here, isn't it? The moment we've both dreamed about.”
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Maybe the best comic book adaptation. Nolan milks the maximum from it in his movies, but still he remains in Miller’s shadow. Part two of the Return of the Dark Knight pulls a joker from its sleeve. The chilling and brutal confrontation with the loon with the smile across his face in the tunnel of love is probably better than the epic finale with the Man of Steel. The action sequences are of course longer than in the book and it’s a treat to watch them. All the people I've murdered...by letting you live.
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A step better than the arbitrarily interwoven first part, but it doesn't reach a higher rating even after having thought about it for a longer time. I admire Frank Miller for Sin City, 300, and even for the heavily criticized Holy Terror, but his trips to Gotham didn't speak to me. The original suffers from a strange perspective on legendary female characters (the contrast between the appearance of Batman or the Joker and Lana Lang or Selina feels disturbingly aggressive) and the adaptation refuses to update the now-questionable period realities like Soviet enemies or the falsely cheerful President Reagan. And while the unnecessarily sharpened perspective on Superman doesn't suit me either, paradoxically, it's the only place that deserves to be stretched out rather than shortened in the film adaptation, so I have to stay in the average rating. Because in my mind, there remains only Kal-El's battle with a chemical reaction and a sufficiently intense (although clumsily edited at the end) fight with the Joker. It's almost not enough in the end, but I've gotten used to that with works bearing Jay Oliva's signature.
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