Susanne Watts

I like Luther. The show was clever and thoughtfully paced. The movie is not. To say there are plot holes the size of canyons is a bit of an understatement and the climax completely runs over any last gasping breath of believability the plot may have had at all. But I still like Luther, and Idris Elba and that is all. Entertaining if you can like Idris Elba and suspend your cynicism for two hours to stare at him. Seriously, did someone have AI write this thing in a back room during the writers strike and then ask it to edit the film after they shot it? What a waste of an opportunity to bring this character back. 2 stars because I like Luther and that is all.

Batman has been done. Better. Already. Between the mumbling, and 3 hr run time I needed to watch this over several days or preferably rewatch Nolan's series. A slow paced slog, with a considerable lack of dialogue which I guess is good considering what dialogue is in the movie is mumbled, incohesive and poorly written. Even the action scenes were not anything close to Nolan's Batman. The Batmobile (which doesn't even really appear until 1/2 way through this drawn out saga) is closer to a suped up Camero put together by a low budget Batman film not 100 million dollar Hollywood movie. The chase scene is shot predominately in Penguin's review mirror rather than the perspective of the people driving the cars. All in all the direction makes for a better boring chase. I like Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman but the dialogue does nothing to highlight her skill. Disappointing at best. This movie add nothing to the Batman legacy. Its not innovative, not well directed, not well written and drags on endlessly. If you're going to spend 3 hrs watching Batman, watch Christopher Nolan's take.