2012 · sci-fi · action · animation
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1
Directed by Jay Oliva1h 16m2012
Batman has not been seen for ten years. A new breed of criminal ravages Gotham City, forcing 55-year-old Bruce Wayne back into the cape and cowl. But, does he still have what it takes to fight crime in a new era?
Our read: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 (2012) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive sci-fi · action · animation entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme sci-fi / action, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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