1995 · action · crime · fantasy
Batman Forever
Directed by Joel Schumacher2h 1m1995
Batman faces off against two foes: the schizophrenic, horribly scarred former District Attorney Harvey Dent, aka Two-Face, and the Riddler, a disgruntled ex-Wayne Enterprises inventor seeking revenge against his former employer by unleashing his brain-sucking weapon on Gotham City's residents. As the caped crusader also copes with tortured memories of his parents' murder, he has a new romance, with psychologist Chase Meridian.
Our read: Batman Forever (1995) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive action · crime · fantasy entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / crime, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- cold
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