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A wealthy playboy and a Chicago cop both return to Gotham City where their lives will intersect in unexpected ways.
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Title: Batman: Year One (Video 2011)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Bryan Cranston | ... | Jim Gordon (voice) | |
| Ben McKenzie | ... | Bruce Wayne / Batman (voice) | |
| Eliza Dushku | ... | Selina (voice) | |
| Jon Polito | ... | Commissioner Loeb (voice) | |
| Alex Rocco | ... | Falcone (voice) | |
| Katee Sackhoff | ... | Detective Essen (voice) | |
| Sara Ballantine | ... | Skeevers' Attorney (voice) (as Saratoga Ballantine) | |
| Jeff Bennett | ... | Alfred (voice) | |
| Steve Blum | ... | Stan (voice) | |
| Roark Critchlow | ... | Hare Krishna (voice) | |
| Grey Griffin | ... | Barbara Gordon / Vicki Vale (voice) (as Grey DeLisle) | |
| Robin Atkin Downes | ... | Harvey Dent (voice) | |
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Keith Ferguson | ... | Jefferson Skeevers (voice) |
| Michael Gough | ... | Driver (voice) | |
| Danny Jacobs | ... | Flass' Attorney (voice) | |
Two men come to Gotham City: Bruce Wayne after years abroad feeding his lifelong obsession for justice and Jim Gordon after being too honest a cop with the wrong people elsewhere. After learning painful lessons about the city's corruption on its streets and police department respectively, this pair learn how to fight back their own way. With that, Gotham's evildoers from top to bottom are terrorized by the mysterious Batman and the equally heroic Gordon is assigned to catch him by comrades who both hate and fear him themselves. In the ensuing manhunt, both find much in common as the seeds of an unexpected friendship are laid with additional friends and rivals helping to start the legend. Written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
I consider myself a Batman fan. Having loved a vast majority of the previous Batman adaptations, I loved this movie. The animation is wonderful, the backgrounds and colours are dark and the character designs are sophisticated.
The music has a real haunting quality to it, and does so well in enhancing the atmosphere. And what an atmosphere it is too, for me the best Batman adaptations(Batman: The Animated Series, Mask of the Phantasm, 1989 Batman and Under the Red Hood) have a suitably gritty tone, which is what the movie does have.
Batman: Year One's dialogue is sharp, intelligent and edgy, and generally apart from the rushed subplot of Selina Kyle(a longer length in general might've helped) the story is clever and compelling. Mostly the characters are very well written, with special mention going to Gordon, a character that could be bland but here he is very interesting.
Voice acting is strong. Bryan Cranston is especially outstanding. Ben McKenzie is generally good and emotive, if in need of more charisma in places. All in all, excellent Batman movie. 8.5/10 Bethany Cox