6/10.
Desperate attempt at out doing Nolan's trilogy, by going heavy on the "detective" elements, only to show how unsophisticated paltry the detective stuff was.
The Riddler was reduced to an autistic midwit, with a vague /pol/ type of dysfunction. An inferior echo of Joker (from the Joaquim Phoenix movie).
His "riddles" where like primary school word games. His "chaos", simply a Hurricane Katrina copy...
Nothing he did was either original, intriguing, intelligent, thrilling or worthy of occupying any screen time.
They knew that, I think, which is why the Falconi/Penguin dynamic and the is he/isn't he the rat, question was given so much plot time.
John Turturro was awesome. Not seen him in a juicy role, since Quiz Show. He really commanded the scenes. Farrell was also great, though what the point was, of putting him in the film, if you're going to so obscure him with makeup, I don't know. It wasn't like you couldn't get other actors - William H. Macy, for example - to deliver on Penguin?
The narrative was thin, patterned off Nolan's The Dark Knight. With The Riddler even handing himself into the police, before the reveal of his "big plan".
The cinematography, set design and atmosphere conveyed, of Gotham City, was fantastic! They managed to really make it dark and gritty, without the tedium of Nolan's NYC/Gotham. This Gotham had some of that dark fantasy of Tim Robbins' Batman.
Catwoman was a disaster, Maybe don't cast a dwarf triglet as an ass kicking ninja catburglar. I knew it before the casting but, this just reinforced how awesome Anne Hathaway was, as Catwoman (even with the abortion of a Socialist revolutionary character).
Gordon was serviceable but colourless. No Gary Oldman Jim Gordon, this was just "respected black character actor takes white role and owns it" ... only without really doing anything or being anything.
The worst piece of casting was Robert Pattinson, though. And again, this was always going to drag, ever since his name was announced.
He had no emotional range at all. His Bruce Wayne was flatter than the characters in Batman The Animated Series. He "was emo". In every context and scene.
His Batman, neither evoked fear (because he looked like Howard from TBBT in a homemade Batman costume) nor struck awe (because he can't even stick a landing in his flying suit!
And, for all their pretentious attempts at "realism", what was with his landing? He just shook off impacts that should have left him with shattered bones!
Pointless, inappropriate comedy!
Very mediocre, could have been cut down to a less boring 1hr and 30mins.