2013 · sci-fi · action · animation
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2
Directed by Jay Oliva1h 18m2013
Batman has stopped the reign of terror that The Mutants had cast upon his city. Now an old foe wants a reunion and the government wants The Man of Steel to put a stop to Batman.
Our read: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 (2013) 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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