Don’t be fooled by that sun, this movie is actually very dark (in the literal sense). COURTESY OF WARNER BROS. PICTURES ™ & © DC COMICS
When we meet Batman in Matt Reeves’ The Batman, people already get his whole deal.
Rather than starting at the beginning of billionaire Bruce Wayne’s journey to nocturnal vigilante, the film—out TODAY, FRIDAY, MARCH 4—plops us two years after the Batman made his debut to the citizens of Gotham. The bat signal already sends petty criminals scrambling. “Fear is a tool,” spits Bruce (Robert Pattinson) during a voiceover before beating up muggers on a train platform. And when Lieutenant James Gordon (a wide-eyed Jeffrey