I'm a fan of all Batmans - '66, '89, Begins, Lego - and I enjoyed the super grimdark Sin City tone here, as well as the Batman Year Two set-up where everyone's fairly well established and Batman can stand in a crime scene with a bunch of cops while Gordon says to him "The Riddler wants to talk to you" or whatever.
All the performances were good and there were some tense action scenes (though it was occasionally tough to tell exactly what was going on, it was mostly readable), it looked nice enough, the score was effective if stripped down to the point of repetitiveness. The Riddler was okay, though ironically it felt like Dano never really found the key to the character.
The main issue was the structure and pacing - the Year Two thing is a bit of a double-edged sword here because the film felt more like three episodes from the middle of a prestige tv series, just relentless plot beats, no breathing space or flow of set-up and payoff.
Solid, and I'd be happy to get another one.
Rating: Pretty good.
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