I Watch Films: Batman (1989)
Batman (1989) Mysterious millionaire Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton) fights crime in Gotham city as vigilante The Batman . Organised crime boss Carl Grissom (Jack Palance) sends his henchman Jack Napier (Jack Nicholson) to Axis Chemicals to destroy evidence, intending that Napier will be killed. A complicated fight breaks out between gangsters (some loyal to Napier, some to Grissom) the police (some corrupt) and Batman in the course of which Batman tries and fails to stop Napier falling into a vat of chemicals. Emerging from it he finds himself disfigured; white skin, green hair and red lips that make him look like a clown. He embraces this by taking on the persona of The Joker – both zanier and more violently dangerous as a criminal. Into this mix comes Vicky Vale (Kim Basinger), photo journalist*, who is interested in this mysterious Batman. Teaming up with print journalist Alexander Knox she is immediately distracted into a romance with Bruce Wayne. However she also comes ...
