The new 4K UHD blows it straight out of the water, fixes the obvious bitrate and banding issues and showcasing some great use of HDR color grading. Rated PG-13 for violence and some sexual materialĢ011’s Blu-ray release was back in the day when Warner Brothers animated DCAU films were known for rather “meh” video encodes on single layer discs. I liked McKenzie in Gotham, but his voice acting pulls the story down a bit as you have a hard time empathizing or connecting with Bruce and Batman at all. Bryan Cranston is INCREDIBLE as Gordon, but compared to McKenzie he looks even better. He plays Bruce Wayne with such boring indifference and blase vocals that Batman comes across as flat and uninspired. There is one caveat to this near masterpiece. As such he made a very gritty and dark detective story that leaves out all the comic book wisecracking that the ear was known for. Frank Miller infamously made the statement that he never though of Batman as funny, and putting humor and comedy into the story was something he loathed. It’s been almost 35 years since the titular comic book run, and it’s still one of the best graphic novels of the Batman universe. Neither of the main characters have reached their full potential, but this one year of brutal reckoning forges them into the heroes that they will eventually come. It gives equal time to our titular hero as well as the cynical Gordon, who’s also a bit raw around the edges right now. The story is told with voice over by Batman and Gordon, mimicking the old 1950s detective stories ala Sam Spade and the like. He needs to become a symbol of fear and justice, and that means taking on the mantle of something that he’s not to do so. Until he figures out that he needs to become something more than a man.
All he knows is that he wants to put the fear of god into the criminals of his city, and the only way he can think of doing it is with brute force. His ethics are still a bit raw and bloody, as his infamous Batman code hasn’t been solidified with.
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He knows what he needs to do, but not how to do it.
That is until a glimmer of hope comes in the form of a mysterious vigilante dubbed as the Batman.īruce is troubled and raw in this story.
Desperate to keep out of sight and away from the hullabaloo, Jim struggles with the desire to do what’s right, but doesn’t want to jeopardize his wife Barbara and their unborn son in any way. Now he’s trying to keep his head down in a department of cops who are all on the take, and acting as mob enforcers for Falcone. Officer Jim Gordon Bryan Cranston) has just come to Gotham after being laid out by Internal Affairs for taking down a corrupt police officer. The story starts as Bruce Wayne (Ben McKenzie) comes back form a 2 year vacation where he is honing his fighting skills in order to take on the criminal underworld of Gotham.
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Adding in some great voice acting by Bryan Cranston and Ben McKenzie (who ironically would play Gordon in the TV show Gotham), it is probably one of the single best Batman stories in the whole DCAU.įrank Miller’s graphic novel is a grim and gritty detective affair, and the animated movie follows it almost religiously. Based off of the Frank Miller graphic novel of the same name, 2011’s Batman: Year One was a fantastic origins story about the first year of Batman and his reign of terror over Gotham’s underworld.
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Wheeeee!! one of the better graphic novel adaptations gets a nice upgrade from the mediocre Blu-ray release a good decade after it came out.
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