EdWrite

First off, for the record I'm Scottish and have been a big fan of Karen Gillan since her first appearance on Dr Who. I was really happy she was getting her first real starring role in a movie and I really wanted to love this,

However, I was very disappointed as this is the first piece of work I've seen of hers where she was not real for me.

There were a lot of smart lines but they weren't embedded in any fully developed character. Not just Karen's character but all of the main characters came across as just delivering lines on cue, slick but a bit soulless.

Personally I found this a dreadful waste of talent, which was abundant in this movie.

Instead of creating something new, the whole movie was cliché and a pastiche of every shoot'em up that has gone before. There was nothing new here, For all the flashes and bangs,

The concept of the library was frankly contrived and silly. Where did they keep the bazookas, in the over sized section?

I was just left me looking forward to the next movie that Karen stars in with the hope that it is the right vehicle as this movie for me drove in to a dead end.

I'm Scottish guy and a ginger, so if you put me in a white pigment chart you'd have to put me pretty near the bottom. Despite that I see a lot of colour in this show. Pardon me if I spell it in an anglicized fashion. I enjoy the 80's vibe it portrays and the positive message that is attributed to that age. You have a hero with doubts and a community under pressure to make the right decisions, with the most vulnerable in that community answerable to those decisions. What I like about this show is that it does not portray black people as reactionaries that deal with situations based on their adrenaline levels but portrays them as considered thinking human beings that we would all endeavour to be. This is reflected by the choice of hero. He is no "young gun", rather he is a father, a teacher and as such he sees the dichotomy of his own position as a super hero and he knows how younger people may misunderstand the message he is delivering. This is not a show about a super hero it is about an adult making a decison about what is important. This is an intelligent show and despite it's flaw of having to down talk its message to fit the commercial niche that has been enforced on it, that does not stop it being one of my most anticipated shows every week. Is it perfect? No, by no means!! How could it be when it is trying to walk a fine line between perception by black and white? Despite that it is brave enough to try and in answer to one persons criticisms it is more alive and impervious to harm than Luke Cage will ever be as this show has a heart and is not a construct built for a larger commercial gain. When watching this show don't focus on the directors, producers and the rest of the silly details just listen to the beat...of its heart.

Just watched this movie and as someone in their 50s who grew up and accepted the new incarnations and evolution of the Batman I was very disappointed. Yes I know this is set in the past but a regression in technology doesn't mean the character has to regress also.

I felt that the Batman in this movie was just a pale reflection of Sherlock Holmes and a powered down version at that. He even had his own version of Baker Street Irregulars which was just a bit derivative. While providing recognition of one of Batmans most central archetypes is appreciated it progressed past the point being of a homage but instead made the principal character of the Batman feel like just a cheap copy of the original..

To be fair the film is competently done and is watchable. The voices were well done and filled out the characters to a degree. I even enjoyed the song by Selina Kyle in the theatre as well as using the voice and character of Harley Quinn in a cameo role as an old drunk woman. I did not however appreciate the dead fish eyes of Bruce Wayne that again made him seem more 2 dimensional and detracted from my enjoyment.

One of the biggest failure in this movie was the misuse and under use of characters like Poison Ivy and Dr Hugo Strange who were just passing through this movie. Don't blink or you'll miss them.

Coming from the UK I've seen every permutation of the Sherlock Holmes legend in the media and this was a mediocre offering at best. I shouldn't have had to keep reminding myself that this was a Batman movie and not a Sherlock Holmes movie.