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Batman: Gotham Knight is a 2018 DC Comics's superhero film and a reboot to Zack Snyder's Batman Franchise. The film is directed by Daniel Jameson and produced by Daniel Jameson, Christopher Nolan and Alexander Thompson.
The story take place when Bruce Wayne first time becomes The Batman. And the Gotham City Police Department thinks Batman is the one of the criminal, because that time Gotham City is filled with criminals and controlled by Gotham's 2 most feared mafia boss, Roman Sionis and Carmine Falcone. And Batman must face a new criminal who called himself, The Joker.
Cast
- Sam Worthington as Bruce Wayne/Batman - Bruce Wayne is a billionaire industrialist whose parents were killed by a mugger, Joe Chill when he was 9 years old. After travelling around the world to train himself to become a vigilante to protect the weak and later known as Batman.
- Adrien Brody as Joe Chill/The Joker - Joker is a new criminal in Gotham and a Psycopath. He's a psychopathic, mass murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy. Before being Joker, Joe Chill is a mugger who killed Thomas and Martha Wayne.
- Benedict Cumberbatch as Harvey Dent/Two-Face - Harvey Dent is the new elected Gotham City's District Attorney. He's a childhood friend of Bruce Wayne and they both still friends until now. He teamed up with Captain James Gordon, GCPD, and Batman (without realizing it) to capture Carmine Falcone and bring down his organization.
- Bill Nighy as Alfred Pennyworth - Bruce Wayne's trusted and loyal butler who taking care of him since his parents's death and one of the three people who knows Bruce's secret identity. He's being working for Wayne Family since the birth of Bruce Wayne.
- Denzel Washington as Lucius Fox - The Head of Wayne Enterprise since Thomas' and Martha Wayne's death and one of the three people who knows Bruce Wayne's secret identity. He's the one who create Batman's gadgets, The Batsuit, The Batmobile and the one who invented the cure for the fear gas.
- Jude Law as Dr. Jonathan Crane - A corrupt psychopharmacologist who works for Arkham Asylum. He developed a fear toxins in a form of gas. In the first movie he's not the Scarecrow and he will be the Scarecrow in the sequel.
- Pierce Brosnan as Captain James Gordon - One of the few honest cop in Gotham City. He's the only one cop who believe Batman is a good man but forced to hunt him down because of the order of the GCPD commissioner, Gillian B. Loeb.
- Scarlett Johansson as Vicki Vale - Bruce Wayne's ex-girlfriend and a Gotham Gazzete journalist. She's in a relationship with the District Attorney and also Bruce's friend, Harvey Dent. She broke up with Bruce after Bruce decided to travel the world and train Martial Arts from various Martial Arts masters around the world and now Bruce has a feeling for her again. And she is the one of three people who know s Bruce Wayne's secret identity.
- Alec Baldwin as Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb - The corrupt police commisioner who ordered the Gotham Police to hunt down the Batman and he's under Roman Sionis's payroll and he's the reason why GCPD not trying to capture Roman Sionis.
- Mark Harmon as Carmine Falcone - One of the two Gotham's most feared Mafia Boss who have the controlled of Gotham City until Batman, Harvey Dent, and the GCPD capture him and take down his organization.
Although Daniel Jameson wouldn't confirm who will portrays Roman Sionis in the sequel but he said Roman Sionis will be the main antagonist in the sequel and there will be explanation how his mask can't be put off his face.
Plot
The film begins with The Joker is crashing Bruce Wayne's birthday party in Bruce Wayne's Penthouse. And he want to find Bruce Wayne because he believe Bruce knows where and who is Batman. Because The Joker doesn't found Bruce Wayne and he grab a man and Joker ask the man where's Bruce Wayne and the guy doesn't know where he is and The Joker shot him in the head. Then The Joker screams "Now i got bored, and now all i want to know is, WHERE IS BATMAN?!" and from behind Batman replies "I'm Here" and then Joker suddenly shot Batman with his pistol and Batman block the bullet with his gauntlet and the two got into a fistfight. And Joker stabs Batman, and then he laugh and he shot batman mutiple times and when Joker fire his last shot, Batman fell out of the window and Joker laugh louder and the screen fades to black. And "25 Years Earlier" shows up on the screen.
Young Bruce Wayne and young Harvey Dent are on the frontyard of Wayne Manor. And they are playing cat chasing mouse and Bruce is the mouse. And because too exicted, Bruce fall to a hole because he doesn't see the hole and the hole is covered with leaves. And the hole is filled with bats and because Bruce fell to the hole, the bats are attacking him and he develops a fear of bats as a result. And Harvey saw Bruce inside the hole and he told Thomas Wayne that Bruce is fell to the hole. And then Thomas get inside the hole by rappling and carry Bruce out from the hole. The film shifted into 10 minutes later and Bruce's wounds have been healed by Alfred. Then Thomas Wayne get inside Bruce's room, he ask his son why he looks terrified. Bruce answers his father's question by saying when he fall into the hole he's been attacked by a swarm of bats and as a result now he's afraid of bats. Then Thomas assure him by saying "there's nothing to be afraid of and our greatest fear can be our greatest weapon if we can conquer it.". Then the film shifted into 5 hours later. Bruce and his parents are exiting the Monarch Theatre and walk into an alley and it's a rainy night. After a short walk on the alley, they got mugged by a mugger. He told Martha Wayne to gave him her diamond necklace but Thomas Wayne won't allow it and trying to disarm him but the mugger shot him first and Martha screams and the mugger shot her too. And when he's about to shot Bruce, police sirens can be heared in the distance and the mugger run away. Then Bruce fall into his knee and cry and Thomas told Bruce to not to cry and he assure him everything will be alright and then he passed away. Then 3 police cars arrived at the crime scene and one of them is Officer James Gordon. The polices secure Thomas' and Martha's corpses and Gordon take Bruce to his car. Then the film shifted into 3 hours later. Bruce is in the GCPD building and he's being accompany by Gordon and he's trying to cheer him up. Then Captain Gillian B. Loeb enter the room and tell Bruce, GCPD have captured the mugger and the mugger's name is Joe Chill.
The film shifted into the present day. Bruce returns to the hole where he fell when he was a child to conquer his fear. He rapples down into the hole and landed on the platform. Suddenly the platforms breaks and Bruce fell into a huge cave filled with Bats. And when he's returns to the Manor he ask Alfred about the huge cave. And he said, it's a shelter that Bruce's great great grandfather build when the World War I occured. And he said there's an elevator that can escort him into the hole but Alfred not sure if it still working. The two are headed to the elevator. The elevator is hidden behind a wall and to open the wall Bruce must use a piano near the wall. And the elevator is still working and Bruce starts to rebuild the shelter and turn it into the Batcave.
6 weeks later, Bruce has finished the Batcave and he is in the Batcave and designing the Batsuit. Then Alfred came in and ask Bruce why he want to do this and Bruce answers Alfred's question. He want to restore justice In Gotham City and complete his father's goal to make a new and better Gotham (And when Bruce replied Alfred's question, The film shifted into Himalaya here Bruce learned Martial Arts 10 years ago and Bruce Is being trained by an Martial Arts master, Kirigi and France when he's being trained by Henri Ducard) . And 6 Hours later, Bruce wears the prototype Batsuit (Ski Mask for the Mask, Bullet proof vest, Army Camo track pants, and two Brass Knuckles). He starts to stop little crimes like Muggers, Small Roberries, and Small Drug Dealings. But he not always succeed, sometimes he got outnumbered and got beaten up. Bruce keep perfecting his suit but it's not worked out either. And finally he met Lucius Fox In Wayne Enterprise. Lucius Fox is an old friend of Thomas Wayne and he take the lead of Wayne Enterprise until Bruce is ready to lead the Wayne Enterprise. After a little talk, Bruce found a Body Armor in Fox's Lab In Wayne Enterprise, The Body Armor is Fox's and Thomas' cancelled project because to make a huge number of the body armor requires a huge budget so the project is ultimately rejected, but there are some have been created and Bruce ask Fox to let him borrow the armor and Fox said Bruce can have those armors because Thomas Wayne already paid Fox to Make those armors. And Bruce smiles and says thank you. The film shifted into 3 hours later. Bruce is in the Batcave and he's change the color of the armor into Dark Black and put a huge Bat logo on the chest part of the armor. Then Alfred came in and ask Bruce why he choose Bat and Bruce replied because Bat is his greatest fear and because now he can conquer it he will use it as his greatest weapon. Then he put the armor in his cabinet and later it shows the Bat mask, and the Gauntlets.
Later that night, Batman sneak in into an arms dealing. He eavesdroping and heard one of the goons saying something about Joe Chill and suddenly he remember the time when Gillian B. Loeb tells him the name of the mugger who killed his parents. Then he interrupted the dealing, he throw a smoke bomb and when the goons are blinded, he beat up all of them. After he beat up all of them, he interrogate a goon and ask the goon about Joe Chill and his whereabout. The goon said Joe Chill is a huge black market weapon seller and he sent the goons here and deliver the weapons that Carmine Falcone ordered and the goon doesn't want to gave him Chill's location. Batman grab him and throw him into some barrels and he ask the goon Chill's location again and suddenly reinforcements of Falcone's men arrived and they got Batman surrounded. Then Batman calls the Batmobile and in 5 seconds the Batmobile arrived and Batman jumps and enter the Batmobile. Then he shot a rocket into one of Chill's men car and clear a path for him and Chill's men after him and the chase attract Police's attention. The film shifted into Fox's lab and the car chase is on the news and Fox saw the Batmobile and smiles because he knows Batman is Bruce Wayne. After he lost them and causing some damages in the city, he returns to the Batcave. After he exit the Batmobile, Alfred yells at him because what he did on the news and Bruce tell him to calm down and he said everything will be alright.
The next day the new elected District Attorney, Harvey Dent attend a press conference with Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb and Captain James Gordon and he vowed to bring the well known mob boss, Carmine Falcone to trial. And he will cooporate with the GCPD to do that and he states his next target is another well known mob boss Roman Sionis and it makes Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb worries because he's under Roman Sionis's payroll and Sionis order Loeb to eliminate Batman because Sionis believe Batman is a threat to his organization. Meanwhile Bruce meet Fox at his lab and he ask Fox to make him a Nylon Wings and when he's gonna reveal his secret identity to Fox, he said he didn't need to because he already know Bruce is the Batman and he agree to do it and he will back Bruce up if he needs anything and once again Bruce smiles and say Thank You.
Later that night, Alfred has traced Joe Chill. He's in the Gotham Docks to take the weapons he ordered and the weapons will be delivered by Shipment Ship. Bruce went to the docks by flying with his new wings but he keep sent the Batmobile to the docks for backup. The docks is heavily guarded and when he got there, the weapons are being unloaded from the ship. He start to the guards silentely one by one but when he reach the ship area he realize there's no way he can't do this quietly. He decided to blow the ship and sunk the massive number of black market weapons. He storm the ship quietly and plant the explosives on the ship's weak spots. After he get to the vantage point, he blow the charges and the ship slowly sinking and he throw some smoke grenades and storm the area. After he found Joe Chill, he start to beat him up and when the two are fighting, Chill flashes back into the time when he killed Thomas and Martha Wayne and because he saw Batman, he remember the young Bruce Wayne and after a short fight, the police reach the area and Chill gave Batman an uppercut and stun him and buy him some times to run away. After a short chase, Chill get in a car and run away and Batman calls the Batmobile and chase Joe Chill. And it attract Commissioner Loeb's attention and he decided to after the Batman and take him down and he told Gordon to join him. Batman ram Chill's car and get it off the street and the car is thrown into the river and presumably killing all the people inside the car including Joe Chill. And after a long car chase, Batman lost the cops and it makes Loeb angry and Loeb order his men to hunt down the Batman. The film switches into Joe Chill's car and the car is drowning and the camera switches into the inside of his car. All Chill's men are dead but not Joe Chill and his face got destroyed because of the accident and after a few seconds he open his eyes.
The next day, Alfred wakes Bruce and he said his ex-girlfriend and childhood friend, Vicki Vale and Harvey Dent are visiting. He flashes back to when Bruce date Vicki Vale in college. After they graduate from collage, he told her that they had to break up because Bruce is gonna leave Gotham for a long time for his training. She gets mad and storms out. Back in the present, Bruce greets Vicki and Harvey and he invite them for a tea but they refuse the invitation because they just want to tell Bruce that they are getting married in 3 months. Bruce told them he is happy for them. Later that night, Joe Chill is waking up in a hospital room and his face is covered by bandages and he's being greeted by Dr. Jonathan Crane. Crane told him he's in the Arkham Asylum. Crane told them that he's the one who saved his life and Crane want Chill to work for him and his boss. Chill refuse to do so and Crane threatens him and he said if he doesn't want to do so, Crane will kill him by shooting him in the head right now. Chill realize his hands are tied up and he finally agrees to do so and Chill ask him what Crane want from him and Crane smiles.
The next day, a group of bank robber is robbing the Gotham City National Bank. They do the robbing loudly and a short fire fight between the robbers and the security guards is occured and it attract the GCPD's attention including Loeb and Gordon. The robbers drill the safe steel door and the leader of the group threatens the cops by saying if they interfering the robbers will kill all the hostage inside the building. After they open the safe door they take all the money inside and escape the building with motor cycles and the half of the police (Including Gordon and Loeb) in the area are chasing them and the other half are saving the hostages. When the police are gonna untie the hostages, they realize the ties are rigged with explosives and the explosives suddenly explodes and killing all the people inside the building. In the middle of the chase, Batman shows up with his Batcycle and join the chase. After a long chase, Batman capture one of the robbers and he interrogate the robber and ask who are they. The robber just said "Chaos will hit Gotham and you and your friends should be prepared.". Suddenly the GCPD surrounds the Batman and the robber and Batman get on his Batcycle and escape the police. After a long chase, he lost the police and Loeb adds Batman to the Gotham Most Wanted List and he is number one on the list.
The next day, Joker is doing a live broadcast and he reveal he's the one who responsible for the robbery and he also told all the Gotham citizens a chaos will hit Gotham and it will be started with the death of some important people in Gotham and he said it could be some people in GCPD, the mayor of Gotham, Alex Richard, and random Gotham citizens will day each day and there's no way to stop it. Then The Joker visit Carmine Falcone's nightclub and he offer Falcone his protection from the Feds and the Batman. He reminds Falcone about Harvey Dent's plan to capture him and he also reminds Falcone that Dent is not messing around. Falcone accept the offer because Joker's robbery impressed him and the two are join forces.
With the help from Harvey Dent, the GCPD starts to capture some important people in Falcone's organization and hopefully it can bring them closer to Carmine Falcone. Because of Dent's action, it made him an city icon, a new hope for the city. And it makes Falcone angry and Joker convices him by telling him it's the part of his plan. After that day 3 people are death in Joker's hand and he sent a video to the Gotham City News and in the video he reminds Gotham that he's not messing around and he gave an offer to the Mayor, He wants to own Gotham and if the Mayor gave him the city, he'll guarantee the safety of the Gotham Citizens and if the Mayor refuse the offer, the chaos that he mention earlier will happened and he gave the Mayor 1 month to think. Commissioner Loeb told the Mayor to not to worried about the Joker because he said he and the GCPD will handle him. A half of Gotham Citizens wants the Mayor to refuse the offer and the other half wants the Mayor to accept the offer and it causing some riot in Gotham to persuade the Mayor to gave Gotham to the Joker.
A day later, Bruce's birthday party is coming. And the party will be held in his Penthouse and Vicki Vale, Harvey Dent and Commissioner Gordon are invited. The party are going well and they with Harvey Dent in the Party, they are cheering him because of his act to cleaning the street of Gotham and they hope Harvey can bring down Joker aswell. Suddenly the Joker and his goons are crashing the party. And he want to find Bruce Wayne because for some reason, he believe Bruce knows where and who is Batman and he told the guests there's no way Harvey Dent can bring him down. Seeing Joker crash the Party, Bruce Wayne rushes into his secret armory in the penthouse and suit up. Because The Joker doesn't found Bruce Wayne and he grab a man and Joker ask the man where's Bruce Wayne and the guy doesn't know where he is and The Joker shot him in the head. Then The Joker screams "Now i got bored, and now all i want to know is, WHERE IS BATMAN?!" and from behind Batman replies "I'm Here" and then Joker suddenly shot Batman with his pistol and Batman block the bullet with his gauntlet and the two got into a fistfight. And Joker stabs Batman, and then he laugh and he shot Batman mutiple times and when Joker fire his last shot, batman fell out of the window and Joker laugh louder. And the camera switches into falling Batman and he landed on a car safely and scaring some bystanders. Then he saw an explosion occured in the Penthouse and he quickly rapple up into the penthouse with his Batclaw and fortunately the guests survive the explosion and Batman save the guests including Harvey, Vicki, Gordon and his butler Alfred. And after he save the guests, he fly away from the penthouse and the guests are cheering him and some people starts to believe Batman is not a criminal.
A day later, Vicki Vale wrote a story in the newspaper about the Batman saving the guests in Bruce Wayne's party. And the news makes people starts to believe Batman is not a criminal but Commissioner Loeb still hunt him down because it's Sionis' order. Meanwhile, Crane has developed a fear-including toxins from a rare flower that he found in Russia. And Joker is gonna use the fear toxin for his chaos that he will bring to Gotham. And later that night Joker is causing a road rage in the streets of Gotham with his container truck. After a short chase with the cops, Batman arrives with his Batmobile. After a long chase, he managed to stop him by shooting a line and Joker's container truck can get pass the line and the truck is destroyed. Then Batman get Joker out from his truck and stunning him. Then Gordon arrives and he pointed a gun at Batman and told him to surrender. He told Batman that he believe in him but he's forced by Loeb to hunt him down. Batman ask him to let him go and he gave him the Joker and Gordon agrees to let him go. Then Police sirens can be heard from the distance and Gordon told him to go away before the cops gets here but he already go away when Gordon cuff the Joker. Then the cops arrives along with Loeb and he congratulates him for capturing the Joker. After a few hours, Gordon interrogate Joker and ask him about what kind of weapon he'll use for the chaos that he will bring to Gotham. He refuse to answer to Gordon's question even Detective Harvey Bullock beat him up mutiple times and he said pain is an enjoyable sensation to him and Gordon decided to leave him and he want Joker to attend Psychology check up in Arkham Asylum and after that he will be transfered to the Gotham National Correctional Facility.
Joker is being checked up by Crane and after he's being checked up, a bunch of reporters including Vicki Vale are asking him about Joker's sanity but he doesn't want to gave any comment and he just walk into the elevator and get to the underground part of the Arkham Asylum. Curious, Vicki follows Crane and he enters a room and when Vicki saw what inside of the room, she record a video of the activity inside the room and sent the video to the GCPD. Crane tests the fear toxins by spraying the inmates the toxins. And then she calls the GCPD and told them that she's the one who sent the video and she wants the GCPD to get to her location. Unfortunately, she's being spotted by one of Crane's goons and they captured her and Crane sprays her the fear toxin and she's fainted. Hearing that from the GCPD dispatch, Bruce Wayne rushes to the Arkham Asylum with his Batmobile. He's having a hard time to find the underground entrance but he manage to find it. After he found the location, he fight Crane and his goons and manage to save Rachel. Crane told him that he's gonna plant the toxins into a massive number of explosives and the Joker will use the explosives when the chaos comes. After they hear the Police are coming, he stun Crane and he found two stock of antidotes for the toxin and then he bring Rachel out of there. After Batman and Rachel get out from the Asylum, the police including Gordon have found the place but they can't find Crane anywhere. He inject the antidote to Vicki and bring her to the Wayne Manor after he lost the cops. After gaining back her concsious, she ask Batman who he is and he gave her his secret identity. After they reach the Wayne Manor, Bruce ask Alfred to take Vicki to her home and Alfred is happy to do it. The next day, Bruce went to the Wayne Enterprise to meet Fox and he ask Fox to create a large number of it and he explain everything and Fox agree to do it.
One of Falcone's men that apprehended by the police wants to gave the police Falcone's location because he use a hacker to fake his location. He got 50 different locations in Gotham. He's in the Docks where he operate his main business, Drugs shipping. Later that night Harvey Dent and the GCPD (Including Gordon and Loeb) storms the docks and with the help from Batman but the police and Dent didn't realize it. After Batman found Falcone in his private room, he fight him and knocks him down and Falcone ran away and Batman chase him and actually he bring Falcone to Dent and when he got closer to Dent, Batman escape and when he meet Dent, they got into a fist fight and Dent capture him. The next day Falcone is brought to the court and the film switches into the Joker in the prison. He got a visitor who turns out to be one of Falcone's men. He gaves Joker a detonator. Actually Joker has hire an hacker to turn the guards in the building phones into explosive before he got apprehended. After he return to his cell, a guard approach his cell to mock him and Joker sliently press the detonator and all the guards' phone are exploded and Joker escape the correctional faciltiy and after that the facilty is collapsed and he's being picked up by Falcone's men and they went to the court house. They crashed the court and the Joker killed the judge and take all the people in the court as hostages including Harvey Dent. They cuffed the hostage's hands and tied them up and put them on chairs and Falcone's men pour the kerosene and Joker's shot Falcone and he said "The deal is off" and Joker throw a match and the building is on fire and it attract the GCPD's attention. Dent is trying to fall to the ground and he succeed to do it and the fire burn the rope that tied him up but a half of his face is burned by fire and he's trying to walk out from the building. And when he's out from the building the GCPD has arrived (including Gordon) and they're trying to put out the fire on Dent's face and suddenly the building is explodes and killing all the remaining hostages (turns out Joker has planted some explosives in the building).
The next day the Mayor refuse the Joker's offer because of what he did earlier and the Mayor and the GCPD are gonna protect Gotham. And the people who want the Mayor to surrender are making a lot of riots in the city and the Joker keep killing random people and police. And when the Mayor leaves the city hall and gonna get to his house, he enter his car and a Joker's men is sitting on the driver seat and The Joker sit besides the Mayor and he put a gun on his head and he tied Mayor's hands and legs and they drive Mayor's car into the river and when they are gonna enter the river, Joker and his men jump out from the car and when the car enter the river, the car's exploded because Joker has put a bomb inside the car and the Joker laughs. Later that evening GCPD has found out about the Mayor's death and Joker is doing a live broadcast and he told Gotham, the Mayor's death is only the beginning and he said there will be more opening act for his chaos. Hearing that, Commissioner Loeb orders the GCPD to protect the important people in Gotham including Harvey Dent. The next day Vicki Vale is visiting Harvey Dent in the hospital and she told him that she afraid Dent will be Joker's opening act and Dent calm her down and assures her by telling everything is gonna be alright and when she's gonna leave, Dent ask the police who guard him to escort her to her house and Dent said he will be alright even when he's alone. However Dent still feels guilty about the death of the remaining hostages in the court house that he can't saved and he failed to bring Falcone to prison and actually the fire is damaging his brain slowly. Shortly after that, Crane came in and he corrupts Dent's mind and he makes Dent remember his bad memories and it quicken the brain damaging process. Then he told Dent that he and Joker are gonna blow up the building in 5 minutes and he gave Dent a coin and he allows Dent to decide what he's gonna do next and he leaves the room and then Dent flip the coin and when the coin is in mid-air the film switches into the GCPD building two blocks from the hospital and James Gordon is seen to enter his car and when he open the door, he saw an explosion and followed by some explosions from the hospital where Dent is being treated and the film switches into the hospital and the GCPD (including Gordon and Loeb) are securing the hospital.
After hours searching the hospital for Harvey Dent's body, the GCPD can't find him anywhere and they assume that his body is destroyed by the explosions and his tomb is placed in the Gotham City Cemetery and Gotham's citizens (Including Bruce, Alfred, Vicki, Gordon, and Loeb) are visiting Harvey's tomb. Vicki told Bruce that she will leave Gotham City soon because she feel Gotham is not a safe place for her and anyone anymore but she doesn't know when she's gonna leave. Later that day, Joker doing another live broadcast and he said Harvey Dent's death is the last opening act and the main act will happened in 3 days and he said for anyone who's gonna leave the town will be eliminated and he states Gotham City is in his hands now. And Gotham City's deputy, Shaun Cameron suggest the citizens can leave the town by air because Joker has no power in air. And after 3 airplanes that carries some citizens, Joker's mens are shooting down the airplanes with FIM-92 Stingers. Knowing that Deputy Cameron is the one who sent the citizens away from the city, Joker has set up a plan to kill him. The Deputy is leaving the GCPD and get to his home to protect his family and Joker has planted an explosive in his car. And when the Deputy open his car, it activate the bomb and suddenly the bomb exploded and killing him instantly. Then Joker doing another live broadcast and warn Gotham that they cannot going anywhere and he said that everyone should be prepared for the chaos.
Three days has passed and the chaos has started. Joker has announced what kind of weapons he use in the chaos. He use a massive number of explosions that filled with Fear Toxin and if the explosives are exploded it will spread the Toxin into the air and Gotham will turn into a ghost town and in the broadcast he explain how the toxin works. He sprays the toxin into a civilian and the civilian is hallucinating and his hallucination unleash his greatest fear and he is scared to death. The explosives are planted beneath Gotham and there's a way to stop the detonation, Batman must giving himself up to the Joker and if the military interfering the explosives will be detonated immedietely and the Joker doesn't have the detonator. He gave the detonator to one of Gotham's citizen. And Joker release all the inmates from Gotham National Correctional Facility and Arkham Asylum and Batman must giving himself up within 48 hours. Fortunately Lucius Fox has manufactured the antidot. The antidot is so complicated so it takes a long time to create it and he has create a massive number of the antidot. Joker has shut down the GCPD but they silentely doing some Guerrilla attacks and they are trying to find a way to the explosives core so they can defuse the explosives manually. Meanwhile, a man wearing a hoodie jacket join a poker game and Joker's mens that help him destroyed the court house are playing. After a few rounds, the man keep losing but he always rejoin and after that one of Joker's mens ask he's ready to lose his money again then the men replies his answer by saying "Let my coin give you the answer." then he flip his coin and the result is tail and it means no and he said he's gonna finish them all and the Joker's mens laugh at him and mocks him and suddenly the man take his knife and threw it into one of the Joker's men's neck and they ask him who is he and the man put off his hood and it is revealed that he's Harvey Dent who has escape the hospital before the bombs exploded and Dent replies them by saying "I'm Justice." and then they are got into a fistfight. After a long fight, Dent kill them all and leave the area.
TO BE CONTINUED
Sequel
Main Article: Batman: Gotham Crusader
In January 23, 2019 Warner Bros. has announced the sequel to the film was under development and it's called, Batman: Gotham Crusader and Daniel Jameson announced that he would direct the sequel and the final chapter of Gotham Trilogy. Sam Worthington, Adrien Brody, Bill Nighy, Pierce Brosnan, Jude Law, Benedict Cumberbatch, Alec Baldwin, Denzel Washington have all been corfirmed to reprise their roles. In a interview with MTV, Adrien Brody hinted that his character, The Joker only appear very briefly and Adrien's comment about his role in the sequel also indicating The Joker will die in the sequel. The filming starts in March 10, 2019 and the film is set to be released in mid-2020. And in a interview with Jimmy Fallon, Jameson confirmed Guy Pearce has join the sequel but he hasn't reveal his role yet.
Reception
After the first three day the film has been released in United States, the film grossed $500.000.000 and ranked #2 in the Box Office and after a week the film has been released, it grossed $1.500.000.000 and ranked #1 at the Box Office and at the final day of the film shown in cinemas, it grossed $2.882.000.000 and still hold it's position in Box Office and it beat James Cameron's Avatar and Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises and currently first-highest-grossing film all the time, first-highest-grossing film of 2018, the first-highest-grossing superhero film all the time and Warner Bros. Pictures' highest-grossing film all the time.
Batman: Gotham Knight received mostly positive reviews from critics; Rotten Tomatoes sampled 400 reviewers and judged 96% of the reviews to be positive. Metacritic, another review aggregator, assigned the film a weighted average score of 95 (out of 100) based on 100 reviews from mainstream critics, considered to be "generally favorable reviews". CinemaScore reported that audiences gave the film an A grade.
Andrew Fredrickson from New York Times gave a positive comment for the movie, "Seems like i have underestimate Daniel Jameson. Yeah i think the movie will not be as good as Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy because he's a new and less-experienced director than Christopher Nolan and turns out the movie is amazing and as good as Nolan's and even better and i can't wait to see the sequel."
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