Batman Beyond: Year One

I have been a massive fan of Batman Beyond since a kid and as an adult, I am dying to see a live-action movie of this character and I'll be here when it finally gets announced. Until then, we have this live-action fan film and it is absolutely phenomenal.

Positives for Batman Beyond: Year One (2024): First off, I have to say that this fan film looks phenomenal. The visuals effects for this fan film look better than almost any of the big budget Hollywood movies nowadays. I also have to give it to Ryan Potter as he was a perfect Terry McGinnis and I would really love to see him again for a big budget version of this character. The Batsuit looks phenomenal and it is one that I would love to see in big budget movie. And finally, the action sequences are awesome.

Overall, Batman Beyond: Year One (2024) is one of the best fan films I've ever seen in my life.

Nice proof of concept! Would be exciting to see what they can do with a feature and large budget! It's going to have the cons of being fan made, but that's to be expected. This is a good film to get people to start talking about more Batman Beyond content!

I think Ryan Potter was a good casting choice for Terry! They look really similar. The vfx was good. Wish it was longer as it would be good to see the characters fleshed out more. The scenes are reminiscent of the old cartoon which I believe was done on purpose. Growing up with the cartoon, it was cool to see.

Excited to see what comes of this short.

I thought the film was boring and had poor directing, writing, and acting. The wigs and costumes were terrible. The directing had no flair and the script dragged. I know that the Terry actor is famous and I do believe that is where most of the hype came from but for me it didn't deliver. I also thought the fight scenes were poorly choreographed and boring. See 'Logan the wolf' for some top tier fan film choreography. The costume looked plastic and the VFX tried to save it but it didn't work for me. I don't want to see a longer cut of this and believe it would flop terribly in the box office. I'm not hating on this film but there are better fan films that came out this year but didn't receive press because they didn't have an already famous actor in them.

As a big Batman Beyond fan this is exactly what I wanted for the movie, the only issue I had was the 14 minute run time, at least we did get this after the live-action movie, animated movie and, video game all got canceled, I got to say one of my more nit-picky complaints is the name, I know they put year one to separate it from the show but, it feels thrown in to get people like "year one, I like the year one comics." But realistically I've got no complaints.

To credit this movie I love Bruce's voice in this it sounded just like Kevin Conroy's did in Batman Beyond 1999, and then lastly I have to talk about the huge budget and how they got Ryan Potter to play Terry, I need a part two.

I am in all praise for the fan made short film and this seems like a high budget movie. It feels so good when watching it. The writing is cooking and It has awesome cinematography some scenes are very dark yet way of capturing the emotion is just fabulous. Some of the action sequences combined with brilliance of cinematography make those pieces of real art and perfection. All the actors and actresses are fantastic. I got goosebumps so many times throughout. Overall a perfect movie in my humble opinion. The character development throughout this film is something that will go overlooked due to the amazing action sequences.