SmugKitZine Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

Konterr Brilliant and touching

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

dixondaryl1995 I've just finished watching the first season, and as a huge Batman fan, having read all the comics, played the hell out of Batman Arkham games, I can say that this show is hitting all the right notes. The portrayal of streets of Gotham, especially the characters (cast) and the storyline, everything is just amazing.

veinctor The show started as a dark and serious crime solving mystery drama and it was reduced into a repetitive and meaningless comic - and sometimes disgusting - mess. I'd give 6-7 stars to season 1.Batman is my fav superhero but I never expected him to be in the series. Sadly the writers didnt do any research (like reading "Becoming Batman" by E. Paul Zehr). Bruce is 17-18 in season 4 and he hasnt done almost no training at all. And yet he can beat much older gun-carrying men. What's worse, is that Bruce doesnt come up with the idea of becoming Batman... Ra's al Ghul and Joker force him to be because of a prophecy/vision! Furthermore, Al'Ghul wants Bruce to be his heir, way before Bruce is Batman, which messes up everything we know about Batman and Ra's.I dont mind a show taking liberties and this show does that a lot, with new villains and characters. But it's obvious that this show has no direction. Joker, Grundy and Ivy had 3 transformations each! Riddler has split personality (which is something Two-Face should have). Joker, Mad Hatter, and Scarecrow got their powers from their brother, sister and father respectively. Pyg was downright gross. Lee is a doctor who never kills anyone but she finally stabs someone because "plot". And there is a Bruce clone on the loose, which like many other villains, he disappears for when the story has a need for him. Also yeah, Bruce kills someone in the series, which is totally against what Batman stands for.In season 3, the Court of Owls wanted to destroy Gotham to clean it from corruption. But that doesnt make sense.. just clean Gotham from crime! Instead, they wanted to drive everyone mad so that people kill each other. That's just crazy! In season 4, Al'Ghul also wanted to destroy Gotham to create the Dark Knight. Not only this ruins Batman as a self-made character but... they dont actually destroy Gotham. They only destroy the bridges, which is access to Gotham! I wanted to cry from anger after watching that! The series can't even deliver what it promises!Not only got the Lazarus Pit to bring back anyone dead, but Hugo Strange and the city sewers can also do that. With 3 super Ex-Machinas there are no stakes in this game. Everyone allies with everyone at any given moment. Everything is up on the air for the shake of cheap plot-twists. It's a mess. The new Joker doesn't even laugh! I really dont care about any of the characters anymore. The show is almost as bad as Batman Ninja at this point. Also, in 4 seasons at least 200 cops must have died in GCPD.The show suffers from the same things Smallville suffered (I couldnt believe that Clark met Lois before they both worked in Daily Planet!). But Smallville lasted for 10 glorious seasons. So what do I know?Not that it's this shows fault, but the Ra's arc and the demise of Gotham was also shown in Batman Begins and Arrow. So they could have avoided it completely.All that said, I hope they got the guts to do the Batman Cataclysm arc in season 5. Nygma, Penguin and Fish were my fav characters.

satanfrog The show is better than I expected, not as bad as people say. Personally, the only thing sucks about gotham is freaking ASIAN HUGO STRANGE!!! We know the actor is born in American but HUGO STRANGE is like german-american. It just kinda a little bit piss us of seeing chinese looking Hugo Strange. That's all.

jnick-71439 I've never read a batman comic book, I'm just a fan of the recent batman movies and of good TV shows. I thought this show would be good because I usually like the police procedural shows and I thought combining it with the batman universe would be really interesting, even if there was no actual batman. The concept remains great, but the execution on this show was horrible. I tried to keep watching this show because of how much I loved the batman movies but I gave up halfway through season 1. The actors are consistently overacting in every single single scene and the writing is horrible. There are multiple times in every single episode I've watched where the lines are so corny and bad that it's cringe worthy. I want to give the actors a break because of the bad writing, but I can't, they're all terrible. The scenes between Jim Gordon and Barbara are so overly dramatic it's barely watchable. The lines and acting with Fish Mooney and the Penguin are especially atrocious. There is no depth to any character in this show. Nothing about this show is even slightly realistic or believable. Literally everything is extremely watered down to the point where I feel like I'm watching a children's show. The crime bosses are not even close to being intimidating or scary in any way. I can't believe how little effort was put in to this show. It's horrible. Don't let the good ratings fool you, fox must be making it's employees write them. If you're a fan of good TV shows stay away from this one.