2021 · animation · action · adventure
Batman: Soul of the Dragon
Directed by Sam Liu1h 23m2021
Bruce Wayne faces a deadly menace from his past, with the help of three former classmates: world-renowned martial artists Richard Dragon, Ben Turner and Lady Shiva.
Our read: Batman: Soul of the Dragon (2021) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded animation · action · adventure entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured animation / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
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