Son of Batman: I
saw Assault on Arkham before this, even though Son of Batman came
out first. While I felt Assault on Arkham had too many characters
trying to achieve a task, making the movie drag more than it should have, Son
of Batman is a drag mainly because they changed the story. Why they did
this? I don’t know.
The whole
father-and-son bonding thing and making Talia al Ghul look like a caring mother
was just nauseating. For those who haven’t read the Batman and Son story
arc, Talia actually sent Damian to Bruce as a distraction while she carried out
her evil plot—not to protect him.
The entire story
was changed, even down to the inclusion of Nightwing and Deathstroke. Neither
of them was in the original story. So, the idea of making Deathstroke the
antagonist, who’s after the League of Assassins’ top position, felt like a
hoax. When you make up a hoax like that, you have to sell it with the
characters we know and love, not change their behaviors just to fit your story.
I watched this flick with my hands in the air, wondering if I was watching an
alternate universe version of the Batman and Son story arc.
Here, the story
goes south from the beginning. Deathstroke attacks the League of Assassins and
kills Ra’s al Ghul (before Ra’s can use the Lazarus Pit to revive himself).
Deathstroke then goes after Damian, trying to kill him as the heir to the
League of Assassins. He fails, and Talia (Damian’s mother and Ra’s al Ghul’s
daughter) takes Damian to his father, Batman/Bruce Wayne, for protection.
In the Wayne
mansion, Damian struggles to adjust since the only life he knows is fight,
fight, fight. He sneaks off multiple times, trying to find Deathstroke and
avenge his grandfather’s death. Batman stops him, preventing revenge from
clouding his judgment and almost getting him killed. Batman then trains him to
be Robin, and together they hunt down Deathstroke—Damian fueled by revenge, and
Batman trying to figure out what Deathstroke is up to.
I wish they had stuck to the original story, as it would have made the movie more meaningful. All these changes made, didn’t add the needed fun to the movie, just made you think more than you needed to. Sometimes change is good when it is done well, but here it was a drag.
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