McKenzie brings a suitably detached edge to his portrayal of a haunted young man taking his first tentative steps into life as a masked vigilante, an occasional uncertain quality to his voice lending a very human aspect to the character’s inner monologues.
In fact, my only real complaint with regards to the look of the film are a few car sequences that lack a degree of polish – made all the more noticeable by similar examples elsewhere in the film being especially good.Įqually impressive is the movie’s cast, led by Ben McKenzie (The OC, Southland) as Batman/Bruce Wayne and Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad, Drive) as Lt. Character animation is particularly good, especially in the action sequences where there’s an impressive fluidity to movement that makes these often complex scenes far easier to follow than might otherwise be the case.
Instead, Year One errs toward a more gritty and realistic approach that is reminiscent of both David Mazzucchelli’s artwork from the original comics and anime movies such as Akira. The film is produced by Bruce Timm, co-creator of Batman: The Animated Series, but it shares few visual cues with the iconic visual style of the classic television show.
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Sound familiar? It should – Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins drew inspiration from Year One, but while hints of familiarity are shared between the 2005 blockbuster and this latest entry in the DC animated movie series, there are enough differences to warrant the existence – and the enjoyment – of both. James Gordon’s assignment to the Gotham City Police Department and the battle against corruption that will ultimately lead to him being made commissioner. Running in parallel with the emergence of the Dark Knight is a plotline that details Lt. Year One, as its name suggests, is a Batman origin story, spanning Bruce Wayne’s first twelve months in the cape and cowl as he initially hones his crime-fighting skills on the petty criminals populating the streets of Gotham before turning his attention to the city’s corrupt officials and organised crime rackets run by Carmine Falcone. The news that Frank Miller’s classic 1987 storyline Batman: Year One was being adapted for a direct to DVD/Blu-ray/download movie was thus greeted with somewhat muted enthusiasm by yours truly, but after settling down to watch the film I’m happy to announce that this is, for the most part, an enjoyable and faithful version of one of the most celebrated Batman storylines. have been producing animated movies of DC Comics’ most popular superheroes for a few years now, but for me they’ve always been rather hit and miss, with earlier original productions such as Mask of the Phantasm or Return of the Joker being far more enjoyable than adaptations of newer works such as Darwyn Cooke’s Justice League: New Frontier, which I felt was a cruelly truncated version of the original comic book.
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