Twilight of the Batman

***The Batman*** is a 2019 American superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name. Directed, written, and produced by J.J Abrhams, the film is the first installment in a planned quatriology featuring other DC Comics characters (From the Batman series). The movie stars Jake Gyleenhaal as Batman/Bruce Wayne: a billionaire who sets out to fight the crime of Gotham City by night as the vigilante 'Batman' due to the death of his parents. Gyleenhaal is joined by co-stars Patrick Stewart, Timothee Chalamet, Liev Schreiber, Andy Serkis and

## Cast.

* **Jake Gyllenhaal** as ***Bruce Wayne/Batman***: Using the famous billionaire playboy philantropist faccete to hide his true self and the dark gritty, violent vigilante Batman personality to avenge his parents every night, Bruce Wayne's real personality is let unknown to most people but his butler, a big part of his arc during this movie is to learn to be human once again and get over his parents' murders.
* **Aaron Paul** as **Waylon Jones**: A young man born with a skin deformity and for that was treated as a freak for his entire life, a cannibalistic serial killer who murders entire families by methods which include gunshots, throat cutting and strangulation. He is nicknamed "The **Killer Crocodile**" due to the nocturnal nature of his crimes, his tendency to bite his victims' bodies, the uncommon size and sharpness of his teeth.
* **Timothe Chalamet** as ***Dick Grayson***: A young street thug who seems to be trying to bring down Fries for undirectly causing the murder of his parents: The Flying Graysons after Jones snapped and killed most of the members of his circus gang. Grayson is recruited by Batman to help him solve the case, becoming closer with him and developing a father-son relationship through the movie.
* **Liev Schreiber** as ***Commissioner Gordon***: A longtime cop on the Gotham City police force, who has given up hope for Gotham after living through all of its corruption. However, once the Batman emerges, some of Gordon's old hope is reinstated.
* **Jared Harris** as ***Professor Hugo Strange:*** An ally of Gordon's and Batman's, head of the new reform team of Arkham Asylum who seems to want to renovate it, Strange assists Batman and Gordon in the crime scene, providing psychollogical assistance.
* **Patrick Stewart** as ***Alfred Pennyworth***: Former friend of Thomas Wayne, who was left as Bruce's legal guardian after the murder of Thomas and Martha Wayne. Alfred continues to serve Bruce as his "butler", but mainly as a confidant and ally. He is the only one who Bruce trusts with the knowledge that he is Batman.

## Plot.

The movie begins in Christmas eve, snow covers the entirety of Gotham, not a building to be seen, it is all completely white. Monologue of **Bruce Wayne** explaining how he wants the city to better and how even though there is always dark, light will follow soon; however we see he has become a bit too obsessed with that crusade, have some fucking shots that go hard such as shirtless him just wearing the Bat Cowl staring at the snow-filled Gotham outside, as he slowly puts on the rest of the Batsuit. Then an action sequence of him brutally taking out thugs one by one in a stealthy manner ala Batman Arkham with the narration still in the background, at the end, he notices a young boy who takes down the final thug who tries to escape, leaving him unconscious, and dissapearing without a trace before Batman could go down to talk to him. Bruce then goes back to the manor and acts as sassy billionaire guy at a party, welcoming both guests and homeless people to be saved from the cold.

Meanwhile, in the midnight of Christmas Eve, a deformed man sneaks through the sewers into a closing pool, sneaking up behind two boys and stabbing them both in the back of the head. This serial killer, nicknamed **Killer Crocodile**, has killed two families — the Gagsworthies and the Graysons — during holidays moons. With New Years soon approaching, Batman reunites with Comissioner Gordon and Professor Strange, who persuades him to help develop the killer's profile. After visiting the crime scenes in the pool speaking with Gordon, he notices the young boy from before, and chases after him. He learns that the boy's name is Dick Grayson, and recognizes him from the victims of Killer Croc, offering Dick a hand in helping him apprehend the killer after identifying with him.

As they go on solving the mystery, Batman and Grayson become closer, with Batman relating more and more to the orphan, and training him to survive in the streets as well. Batman and Strange also meet up to discuss the evidence given by Grayson.

Hoping to lure out the Killer Croc, Bruce Wayne fakes an interview where he is asked on his opinion of the restrictions because of the serial killer's murder frenzy, he dismisses him as a crazy ugly lunatic with few life to live, and hopes to attract them by leaving the security of the manor down. Croc does enter the Manor to kill Bruce, but is instead ambushed by Batman, the two of them battle through the Gothic ass looking manor. Batman manages to apprehend Croc, and has him arrested. He looks as the criminal is carried away in the police car, and then down to a bitter Grayson, who did not get to have his revenge. He confronts Grayson and the two break up their agreement, their trust now broken.

As Croc is escorted into his cell inside **Arkham Asylum**, he breaks free of his bindings and mutilates and cannibalizes on the guards' corpse, before releasing the other immates (Professor Pyg, Mad Hatter, Mr.Zsaz and other less-known villains can have cameos), he turns to see Professor Strange, smiling, revealing that he had given the keys to Croc, and that he had been assisting him with information to the murders to become a world renowned psychologist, having orchestrated the situation behind Croc's back, and played everyone as pawns. Grayson is revealed to have snuck into the Asylum and witnesses the carnage, Strange notices this and orders the immates, lead by Croc, to chase after Dick, who manages to hide under a loose floorboard, surrounded by cockroaches and other gross shit.

Bruce puts together the conflicting information that Strange had given him relating to the cases, and seeing the news on Arkham Asylum being taken hostage by its very immates, lead by Croc, he puts on the Batsuit and enters it (mimmick Serious House on Serious Earth, from now on out it's a fucking horror movie). He slowly makes his way through Arkham Asylum, rescuing Dick, however now being outnumbered by the crazies, and the very tool he used to keep them down, *fear*, now keeping him down. Bruce and Dick don't know how to work together, and they still are distrusting of eachother, and so in a moment of vulnerability, Bruce reveals his true identity to Grayson, understanding that he has to move forwards not as Batman, but as a real person, with real relationships.

Strange and Croc walk into frame, Batman confronts Strange, but the mad professor says that Batman never was a symbol of good, he was a symbol of terror, and that the only real reason the city was going to get up from its knees was through reason and objectivity, and not fear, whipping out an acid syringe with lethal doses and stabbing it deep into Croc's abdomen while recording the video to frame himself as the hero. As the Professor prepares to kill Batman and Grayson, Croc slowly rises behind him, not yet debilitated, and devours him whole.

Batman and Grayson fight the final battle with Croc, Dick gets knocked out of a window into a gargoyle the red courtain wraps around him, and he grabs a staff out of an angel statue that laid before the gargoyle, taking it and having the iconic appearance of Robin. Dick and Batman finally manage to stop Killer Croc, apprehending him, a weakened Batman is left in a corner unable to intervene with the situation as Dick has to choose between letting Croc die or giving him the antidote, ultimately choosing to give him the antidote from Strange's corpse and save the murderer of his parents, as Bruce looks own with pride.

In an epilogue, it shows Bruce having adopted Dick Grayson, announcing it to the public. We see then Bruce taking Dick to the Batcave. And finally, him attending the Bat-Signal, meeting up with Commisioner Gordon. Gordon looks behind Batman to see another younger figure, and we get a full body reveal of Grayson, now donning his iconic suit. "**Robin**." Batman reveals.