Batman: Gotham Knight (2008)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

This movie was very great it has everything you need to know before the Dark Knight came out.I liked the fact that this movie had 6 segments and was based on one movie I am going to review each of them individually:Have I got a story for you: This segment is about four kids making up stories on how they met Batman. But when the man in black attacks them one of them gets the credit. Overall a good segment. 7/10Crossfire: This segment is about Jim Gordon assigning two of his cops to transport Jacob Fleey to jail. Which ends up in a crossfire with them and a gang which Batman defeats. Overall a great segment. 8/10Field Test: I don't remember much of this segment apart from them playing golf. Worst segment. 3/10In Darkness Dwells: This segment is about Batman rescuing a holy man from scarecrow with the help of the police. The voice of the Scarecrow was a miscast but a great segment. 7/10Working Through Pain: This segment starts off at a gruesome point where Bruce is in India and he is patching up a wounded man. But later on, he gets help from a woman called Casandra to help him through his pain. Overall great segment. 7/10Deadshot: Finally this is the best segment in the film. This one is about Batman stopping Deadshot from a crime. The best scene was when he and Batman were fighting on a train. 10/10Overall this was a great film with a great cast of voice actors and good anime/animation style. It looked like if the anime style for Death Note and the animation from Batman the animated series got mixed into a paint mixture and made the animation for this film. I would say watch this instead of the current DC animated films we have got. (New 52 movies)My overall score on this film 7/10

The animated, straight-to-DVD movie"Batman: Gotham Knight" features an anthology of six stories about the Caped Crusader that occur between Christopher Nolan's "Batman Begins" and "The Dark Knight." Although each episode varies in quality, each offers a new perspective on Batman, and the Japanese animation relates these yarns with a surplus of visual style. Ostensibly, these episodes are drawn in Japanese anime style, but most are penned by seasoned Batman writers, among them Josh Olson, David Goyer, Brian Azzarello, Greg Rucka, Jordan Goldberg and Alan Burnett. David Goyer is best known for his "Blade" trilogy" while Josh Olson wrote the movie "A History of Violence." Happily, "Batman: The Animated Series" voice actor Kevin Conroy is back voicing not only Batman but also Bruce Wayne and his younger incarnation. "Batman: Gotham Knight" is the second animated Batman to receive a PG-13 rating for profanity. "Have I Got A Story For You," the initial episode, concerns four, ghetto street urchins—Porkchop, Meesh, B-Devil, and Dander--who cruise around Gotham on skateboards. At an indoor skate park, these youth try to one-up each other when they recount their personal encounters with Batman. None of them see Batman as a flesh & blood human, but instead as a quasi-human. Porkchop envisages him as a spooky shadow that evaporates and then reappears just as mysteriously. During a showdown at the docks, Batman tangles with a goggle-eyed fiend who comes armed with flash grenades and guns. Meesh, the girl of the quartet, sees Batman as a humanoid bat 'Man-Bat' equipped with swooping wings and gigantic ears and can fly. The Man-Bat fights with a jetpack wielding villain. Essentially, Batman battles a similar adversary in the streets. He is referred to as the man in black. At one point, in front of a red car, Batman decapitates his opponent's head. The guys in the group dismiss this element of Meesh's story, and Meesh claims she had only wanted to add color to her tale. B-Devil is atop the equivalent of the Empire State Building when the goggled villain, the Man in Black, arrives amid an explosion, brandishes two weird looking guns, and informs everybody that they are about to surrender all their worldly goods and make it home in time for dinner. No sooner has this villain uttered this ultimatum than a huge hovercraft appears and deposits a Batman in an Ironman style suit. Naturally, this Batman disposes of menacing Mr. Goggle eyes. In the second entry, entitled "Cross-Fire," two Gotham City Detectives are caught in a cross-fit between Maroni and the Russians. Detectives Crispus Allen and Anna Ramirez are a partners on the Gotham City Police Department, who have been assigned by Commissioner Gordon to the Major Crimes Unit, and they are supposed to usher the Man in Black, Jacob Feely back to prison. Instead, they wind up caught in a deadly cross-fire between these two rival mob factions. Before the shoot-out, Allen complains about Batman and his vigilante shenanigans and opposes them. Ramirez argues in favor of Batman. When they are caught in the cross-fire, Allen and Ramirez find themselves separated and Ramirez is being held at gunpoint. Batman intervenes and saves Ramirez's life. In "Field Test," a young Bruce Wayne plays golf with shady businessman Ronald Marshall and defeats him. He suspects that Marshall had something to do with the death of activist who tried to thwart his land development plans. Meantime, Wayne employee Lucius Fox has repaired a satellite and created a strap on device that will use utilize an advanced sound sensor that will electromagnetically deflect small-arms fire. During a natural gunfight, the sensor works too well, deflects the slugs fired at him, but one ricochets and wounds a criminal. Batman has to deliver him to the hospital and the thug almost precipates another gunfight before he is admitted. Bruce tells Lucius that he is willing to risk his life, but not the lives of others. This episode is a little too cryptic, though it provides Lucius Fox a moment in the limelight.In "Darkness Dwells," Batman tangles with Killer Croc and saves the life of a clergyman. This is a pretty creepy episode that generates a lot of atmosphere. "Working Through Pain" shows Bruce in India. In "Deadshot," Batman has to thwart a crack rifleman.

I was pleasantly surprised by this little collection. Usually these kinds of films feel like their sole reason for existence is to earn the studio some money. Usually there's about one good short film in the bunch while the rest are thoughtless and not worth your time. Not so much in this case. This film has six short stories, all loosely tied together by the overall plot and the passage of time between The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises. None of these stories feel alike, though of course they vary in quality, both in terms of how they're put together and their story-telling merits. Thing is, none of them are bad. Sure some of them, like the first one, Have I Got a Story for You, are only average, but all of them are at least visually pleasing to look at and give their own takes on the character of Batman.And while some the stories are only average, a few of them are actually really good. Some for reasons of visual eye candy, like Crossfire and Deadshot, and some for reasons of good story, like Working Through Pain. Of course all of them are relatively short, so the stories are all pretty simple, which is why the visually great stories ended up being my favourites. Sometimes it's just nice to sit back and watch excellent action scenes take place. Deadshot especially excelled in this regard.And that's pretty much this movie. A certain fondness for Batman is absolutely required because, as I stated, plot-wise this movie doesn't really stand up to the likes of Nolan's Batman films. But if you're a fan of the character this movie is a fun hour and fifteen minutes to be had. It's creative, loves what it's doing and delivers you exactly what it promised.

This is a collection of stories solely for the hardcore Batman fans, who are witness to different interpretations of the 'Bat-Man', the thing that hides in Gotham's shadows, hunts the criminals that plague the streets.I found the different art-works quite fascinating, from abstract to anime, from child-friendly to brutal. It's a brilliant take on the character with a bridge between Batman Begins and Dark Knight, there is also an appearance from 'Deadshot' and 'Scarecrow', who make it all worth while.I loved the build up to 'Arkham Asylum' as well as Batman's entrance as he sweeps down to save a victim with the words 'I WILL!'