Batman and DC Comics fans there is yet another new direct to DVD DC Comics animated movie that has just been released and well since we have a nice little tradition going here. As such you just know that I was going to check out this the very first chance that I had and boy oh boy do I have some things to say about this film and so join me as I review the film that is the final ever film role for actress Naya Rivera with the film in question being called simply just "Batman: The Long Halloween Part 2" and yes this review will be a spoiler free review and so enjoy the review everyone.
The plot of this film is Bruce Wayne , Harvey Dent and James / Jim Gordon continue there never ending hunt for the now infamous Holiday killer and all the while something dark is stirring deep within Harvey Dent. Now then in terms of what I personally thought about the plot of this film in all honesty I personally thought that the plot of this film was really good but at the same time I strong feel that alot more effort could have been put into creating the plot of this film since in all honesty the plot of this film as good as it is could have been alot better in my personal opinion anyways / at least.
Starring in this film is Jensen Ackles as Bruce Wayne / Batman and Zach Callison as Young Bruce Wayne. Also starring in this film is the late Naya Rivera as Selina Kyle / Catwoman , Josh Duhamel as Harvey Dent , Billy Burke as James Gordon , Katee Sackhoff as Pamela Isley / Poison Ivy , Titus Welliver as Carmine Falcone , David Dastmalchian as Calendar Man and Oswald Cobblepot / The Penguin , Troy Baker as The Joker , Amy Landecker as Barbara Gordon and Carla Vitti , Julie Nathanson as Gilda Dent , Jack Quaid as Alberto Falcone , Fred Tatasciore as Solomon Grundy , Alyssa Diaz as Renee Montoya , Alastair Duncan as Alfred Pennywort , Robin Atkin Downes as Jonathan Crane / Scarecrow and Thomas Wayne , John DiMaggio as Jervis Tetch / The Mad Hatter , Laila Berzins as Sofia Falcone and Jim Pirri as Sal Maroni.
Now then as for what I thought about the acting that's featured / presented to us in this very film / movie in all honesty I honestly thought that the acting that's featured / presented to us in this very film / movie was really good. Which shouldn't really come as a surprise to anyone really since alot of the actors and actresses that are starring in / appearing in this very film / movie in indeed really good actors and actresses and it really does help that the script for both this film and Batman: The Long Halloween Part 1 is such a good script with all of the characters being very well written and this honestly does help all of the actors and actresses performances since it gives all of these actors and actresses alot to work with in my opinion anyways / at least.
Doing the animation that's seen in this film is The Answer Studio who I have honestly never even heard of before now which is a such a shame considering what i'm about to say about the animation that's featured / presented to us in this film / movie because i really did like the animation that's featured / presented in this film / movie. Since the animation in this film was so good that you can straight up tell that every single animator that worked on this film was putting in there best work / bringing their A game to this film.
Now then without giving much anything away there is a scene that's near the end of this movie that gave me strong Batman Begins vibes. Simply because the scene in question is pretty much a rip off of a scene that's in Batman Begins there is also a scene that's near the start / middle of this film that also gave me strong Batman Begins as well but it was the scene that's near the end of this film that gave me perhaps the freaking strongest Batman Begins vibes in this freaking entire film in my opinion anyways / at least.
I honestly have no idea why this film chose to give of very strong Batman Begins vibes since it's easily the second worst film in the Christopher Nolan Dark Knight trilogy series of films but for some reason the makers of this film chose to include not one but two scenes that would give anyone very strong Batman Begins vibes. If anything it would have made sense if the makers of this film chose not to include anything that was a a reference to another piece of Batman media since all it does is remind you that you could be watching a much better Batman film and that was most certainly the case with this film in particular.
Again without giving anything about this film away the actual mystery element of this film is handled very freaking poorly in my opinion anyways / at least. Since the revelation of who The Holiday Killer is not only comes out of nowhere but it also feels rushed and not earned in the slightest since we aren't given any clues as to who The Holiday Killer is since this film becomes more and more focused on the Harvey Dent plot line instead of focusing on the main mystery of both parts of this two part film it's only when we get to the final twenty to fifteen minuets that this film remembers that it's supposed to be a mystery type of film and so it just speeds through alot of key things that are in this mystery and so the reveal of how The Holiday Killer is just comes across as being rushed and it comes out of nowhere and not earned in the slightest in my opinion anyways / at least.
Now then this very / exact film is exactly one hour and twenty seven minuets and four seconds long which if i'm being very freaking honest here people is a bit on the long side for this film. Since all this film mainly has to do is wrap up storylines from Batman: The Long Halloween Part 1 and so I see no reason as to why this film couldn't come in / have a grand total running of exactly one hour and fifteen minuets since even tho this film has more then enough story to cover it's actual running time and not helping things is the fact that the pacing for this film is pretty bad since the start of the film does drag on a little bit but the pacing does indeed improve as this film goes on tho.
Now then since this film is a superhero action film after all that does infact mean that there are actual action scenes that are in this film / movie and that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action scenes that are featured / presented to us in this very film / movie and well if i'm being honest the action that's featured / presented to us in this very film is really good. It's always going to be good seeing a certain pair of characters teaming up and fighting bad guys together and the same thing is true for this film and it really does infact help that all of the action scenes that are in this film are really fun and as well as being really entertaining to watch with all of this films action being filled up to the brim with some really cool and as well as some really bada*s moments but thats jus what I think anyways / at least.
Overall this a decent film but at the same time it was a bad Batman film since even tho there's one scene that could be argued delves into the inner psyche of Bruce Wayne that scene is very quickly forgotten about and the rest of the film really doesn't show us why Batman is considered to be the world's greatest detective but as you can tell by this review there are some really good things in this film tho. Now i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this film in this very review and as such that means that this film gets a score of a 7.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Google Images , the official DC Movies fandom wiki page , the official DC Extended Universe fandom wiki page , Bleeding Cool . Com , the official Batman fandom wiki page and the official Batman The Animated Series fandom wiki page. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from the actual film that I personally used in this very review being Google Images simply because all of the images that are from this actual / very film and that I personally found that are currently up and on Google Images are all fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly high definition.
