2014 · thriller · animation · action
Batman: Assault on Arkham
Directed by Ethan Spaulding1h 16m2014
Batman works desperately to find a bomb planted by the Joker while Amanda Waller sends her newly-formed Suicide Squad to break into Arkham Asylum and recover vital information stolen by the Riddler.
Our read: Batman: Assault on Arkham (2014) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive thriller · animation · action entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme thriller / animation, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
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