Christopher Nolan is one of those directors who seems to
ferociously divide audiences, usually in reference to the director’s more
staunch defenders. He has made some truly incredible films, like the cerebral
heist flick Inception and the ground-breaking superhero film The Dark Knight,
both of which I’d count among my favourite films ever… but the guy’s reputation
has been stuck in a bit of a mire for a while now.
Interstellar wasn’t that
well received overall, and while The Dark Knight Rises still holds up as a good Batman
film, it and combined with his involvement in Man Of Steel resulted in the
current state of the DC Extended Universe, one that was definitely painted with
Nolan’s dark brushstrokes from his Batman work. Naturally, as is the case with
pretty much all of his films, the marketing for his latest has been rather
inescapable. Knowing my own hesitance to full-force advertising of films and my want for him to pull through with
a film that I don’t have to defend quite so hard as something like Rises, this is
already looking like an interesting situation for a film’s release.
But that’s
all background noise; what’s the actual movie like?
