Kilmer made a better Batman than a Bruce Wayne, so there was definitely some potential for him here, but the movie itself was just a hot mess. I remember really liking Val Kilmer as Batman in the 90s, but today, I see just how poorly he worked as the Caped Crusader (especially those abysmal one-liners).
Revisiting it now, as an adult, and after seeing far better Batman movies, I'm surprised at how poorly this movie plays. His style was exceptionally different, and I remember liking this film a lot more when I first saw it as a teenager. Keaton was out and Val Kilmer was in, with director Joel Schumacher (tragically) taking over direction duties from Tim Burton. Just over a year before this very website began, we were given a new kind of Batman in Batman Forever. Since the main feature of these releases are their new 4K transfers, I'm going to just focus on that aspect (and not the blu-ray bonus features). The 4K discs didn't have any special features on them beyond commentaries, but the regular Blu-Ray discs included in these sets do. For these Batman reviews, I'm going to give an overview of them as a movie and also in this new transfer quality, while giving my usual content breakdown at the end. After this year's gigantic event film, Avengers: Endgame, or even Warner's newest property, Shazam!, the quality is so much greater than what was produced in the late 80's and 90's (and this is coming from someone whose top 4 favorite movies of all time are out of the 80's). Revisiting these films all these years later, it just shows me how far superhero movies have really come. It wasn't a kids movie by any stretch of the imagination, and that kind of set the darker tone for the films that would follow (even though the final in the series, Batman and Robin, was the most "kid-friendly" of the bunch, despite still being pretty creepy at times). I still remember seeing it on the big screen.
I was just a kid when Michael Keaton's Batman debuted. (The movies will also be releasing collectively in a set on September 17.) is re-releasing all four films individually in a brand new 4K transfer with updated accompanying blu-ray discs. To celebrate 85 years of the caped crusader, Warner Bros. Movie Reviews (Main) > Movie Reviews (Main)īefore Twilight's Robert Pattinson (yup, that's officially a thing now), before Batfleck, and even before Christopher Nolan's stellar Christian Bale-led trilogy, there were four other Batman adventures that spawned from 1989 to 1997.Indie Reviews (Main) > Indie Reviews (Main).
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