What he lacks though is any of the darkness that Nicholson (or to be fair, DeVito and Pfeiffer) brought to the previous films. I can only assume that Carrey’s performance was so dominant on set, that Lee Jones could only try and follow along.įor Carrey, you can’t help but think he was just doing what he was told, and he leaves the film with at least some credibility. Tommy Lee Jones makes the interesting role choice of of essentially just laughing and screaming maniacally throughout the film and offers nothing in terms of the psychological duality of his character, simply ‘acting nuts’ through the film. He joins Two Face on a campaign of chaos where he puts a device in every home, with the agreement that he will help Dent discover the true identity of the Batman.Īlongside this, we find Wayne falling for psychologist, Dr Chase Meridien, played by Nicole Kidman.
He arrives at Wayne Manor attempting to avoid social services after the death of his family (its worth bearing in mind O’Donnell was 25 years old at this point).įor the villains in this film, we again see a ‘bad guy double bill’ of The Riddler (Jim Carrey) and former District Attorney Harvey ‘Two Face’ Dent (Tommy Lee Jones).Įssentially the story (of what there is) revolves around previous Wayne Enterprises employee Edward Nigma inventing a brain scanning device that allows extraction of people’s intelligence, and becoming the Riddler. Having resisted the ‘Robin option’ for two previous films, the desire to shift this film to a more family friendly audience, saw them finally cave and cast Chris O’Donnell as the orphaned acrobat Dick Grayson.
Its only Goldsman that has had a credible career in film writing since, with I am Legend and A Beautiful Mind on his resume. It’s said that this led to Michael Keaton rejecting a third film, and the studio ultimately casting Val Kilmer in the role of Bruce Wayne / Batman.įor the story, the script is by Lee Batchler, wife Janet Scott Batchler, and Akiva Goldsman. Having been disappointed with the box office performance (albeit still large in profit), Warner Brothers turned Tim Burton into an Executive producing role for the third Batman instalment. For the third Batman film in the ‘ Batman vs Superman‘ challenge we turn to Joel Schumacher’s 1995 film Batman Forever.
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