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I enjoyed it but it was too long.


I saw the movie, it was really engaging until Bruce meets Alfred in the hospital, I would have given the movie a 8 or 9/10. After that the movie goes downhill in my opinion, and the movie is too long, never the less I give it a 7/10.

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I don't really agree, but I will say that when Batman looked up from Alfred and saw the bat signal, I honestly got chills. That was one of the four of five single best moments in the entire film.

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Almost went to see it today but i'm not sitting through a three hour movie. The theater is over an hour away and with trailers, my lord, that's my whole day gone.

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That’s cool, leave it to us real movie fans

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I disagree. I found the film very well paced for it's runtime. It didn't feel like 3 hours at all

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I actually closed my eyes during the Alfred hospital scene and had a 20 second power nap - for realz!
My body was shutting down.

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I suspect that moving ahead, WB will make sure Reeves trims down the running time.

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I don't think it's ever really reasonable to claim length alone is an issue. If length is truly a valid issue, it's really because something else in the narrative is to blame.

Here, the pacing was fine. But I think everyone spoke and moved about 5-10% slower than normal, like in an M Night movie. This could have easily been 2.5.

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I don't mind a 3 hour film normally but they could have chopped a solid hour out of this one and I wouldn't have missed it. It was just a long, dark rainy night trudge of a film.

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