This movie is one of the best comic book movies EVER and in my opinion better then Thor and the dark knight. Now if you haven't seen the movie these reviews will give away spoilers so I recommend you to go see the movie on Netflex or rent it at a video store. Okay so the movie starts at the end of death in the family where the joker(John DiMaggio) beating Jason Todd(Jensen Ackles and Vincent Martella as a teen aged Todd) with a crowbar in an abandoned warehouse. All the while we are cutting to Ra's al Ghul(Jason Isaacs) talking to his assistant(Brian George) to see if batman(Bruce Greenwood) will save Todd in time and is shocked/sad (I can't tell) that batman won't make it. We cut to the joker leaving the boy wonder on the floor of the warehouse beating to (possibly) a inch of his life once joker leaves Todd begins to crawl to the door ( joker broke at least one of his leg) and stops at the door as he notices a bomb counting down. Right has batman gets there the bomb goes off and finds Jason's dead body in the destroyed building. Fast forward 5 years and we find batman chasing three thugs in a truck with a "package" originally for the black mask when batman makes the car crash the package is revealed to be an Amazo(look it up on wikipedia) just has this happens dick Grayson/nightwing(Neil Patrick Harris) shows up and together they destroy the Amazo. They begin to interrogate the thugs when they are shot down by the red hood and batman gives chase which finally ends in the chemical plant one of the original red hoods was turned in the joker. after a discussion on the birth of the joker has one of batman's greatest failrs the red hood escapes and we cut to black mask(Wade Williams) as one of his guards says "pissed off" about the fact he lost his money he could have gotten from selling the Amazo. This starts a what i can only say is a crime lord war against the red hood now to speed this up red hood turns out to be Jason Todd but is either insane (due to being resurrected by al ghul) or what was always this way and wants revenge over joker because he killed him and wants some revenge over batman because he let joker live he fights batman and then tells him that he has to kill the joker or kill him to stop him from killing the joker and throws batman a gun batman does neither and Todd shoots at batman and misses while batman throws a batarang at his gun and it explodes in Todd's hand and reveals a bomb and is going to blow them all up before batman can get to the bomb to disarm it the joker stops him and says that this is a better surprise and is ready for them all to die it blows up the joker and batman are fine and Todd's body is never found and the movie ends with Jason in the robin suit for the first time as a kid(couldn't find the voice actors name so didn't add him to the role of Jason Todd) and says " This is the greatest day in my life".
Now I love this movie it has great action it has a great story and is dark and gritty and isn't afraid of blood( this movie was rated PG-13) but you might be saying why didn't I hear about this because it was a direct to DVD (video is extinct by now and I really hate that) movie and it got advertised once or five times. But this should have been much more then direct to DVD it should have been released to the theaters not DVD's. verdict is 8/10 love the movie but towards the end it got kinda far fetched like how Jason set up how to get the joker and how he whined at the end but the last line of the movie had a huge impact so not all of the ending sucked.
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