Magic on the Screen

  {Non-Spoiler Review} I implore everyone to not miss out on this movie as just another Batman movie that Warner Brothers is cashing in on with the most popular superhero character of our time. The Batman is director Matt Reeves take on the detective side of our main character. There is still action a plenty, but the main story here focuses on what connections can be made across Gotham’s underground scene and the messes left at Riddler’s crime sites. Reeves keeps his ball rolling as one of this generations promising directors with The Batman following his beautifully stunning work on War for the Planet of the Apes (2017). What elevates The Batman to the level of the Nolan Batman films before it is the stellar acting portrayed by the leads on both the hero and villain side. Robert Pattinson is dare I say the best under the cowl so far. This version of Batman is only in his second year of crime fighting so he does not have everything under control as he may want people to believe....

  {Non-Spoiler Review} Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) is death. He is constantly stalking, brutal yet silent, and plays by a set of rules. Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) chose death by taking the $2 million dollars from the drug exchange gone wrong that he happened to stumble upon. For every step that Moss takes forward to escaping with the money, Chigurh takes two. These two actors play into their roles as if it was real life. With extreme focus here on Javier’s performance, hailed as the most realistic portrayal of a psychopath to date. One’s eyes are glued to the screen when this killer with a ridiculous bowl cut shows up to rip apart any progress that our rough and gruff “hero” makes in his journey. Alongside our vigilante and murderer is the only hero in the story, Sheriff Ed Bell played by Tommy Lee Jones. The movie spends the most screen time on Moss, making one believe it is his story, but it is made clear by the end that this is actually Bell’s story, even when he is sitting a...