Mr. Earle
Avenger
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1) Batsonar: Nolan wanted batman to get hit and thats where it comes down to: PLOT. If batman didnt have that glitch, the joker would have been arrested instantly. The end. As for Fox, well he did monitor things while batman was busy fighting, but on the other hand, batman needed to have that visual himself, because you cant have fox giving him directions all the time "two bad guys on your 6 o'clock". Plus, am i the only one that found it to be a damn cool gadget?The only issues I had ... and I consider this by far the best comic book movie, and one of the best films of all-time.
Two-Face was far too cartoonish in the looks department for my taste. I was looking for something much more subtle, believable, and engaging. Didn't go with the visuals of the rest of the film, or even from Batman Begins in context.
Batman's lenses looked stupid and ridiculous, even more so in the context of this movie. Plus, there was no point. If Lucious was relaying him the info, why would he need them anyway? Or vice a versa, if he had them, why would he need Lucious? And then if he wasn't wearing them, the glitch wouldn't have allowed Joker to get a one up on him in the Pruitt building.
I thought the Hong Kong plot point kind of shortly derailed the stronger focus of the movie. That being the war in Gotham City.
Cool sequences, and shows Batman "has no limits" ... but it kind of distracts you given the rest of the movie.
2) Hong Kong: I found it refreshing. On a movie so packed with action and grittiness, i found HK to be a breath of fresh cool air and more than that it did help Nolan establish Gotham as a city in a world, and not a city in a fantasy realm or a matchbox (*cough burton).