That fight choreography
That looks like a man who's trained in nothing but bar room brawling. I was expecting the fights to not look as bad as Nolan's but it's the same clunky movements.
The arena scene doesn’t work cause it turns Riddler from a targeted villain to a mass murder. It’s one thing if he was killing the new mayor but that wouldn’t require a team of assassins and flooding an entire city.
Was he just a mass murder the whole time masquerading as getting back at the corruption? Maybe. But then if he was the mass murder then just burn down the club and shoot everyone as they came out and the police.
It felt like the natural end was as the club. Riddler, Catwoman, and Batman we’re all there. Just have the “I’m vengeance” come from Riddler himself.
I didn't even mention that in my review but the whole arena scene was pretty bad. Riddler going from serial killer to full blown terrorist with his own followers was too much. It fell into the same CBM movie trap with explosions and mass destruction for the climax.
Batman hanging for dear life and being rescued by Catwoman made him like a bytch
. He didn't feel very heroic during any of the chaos.
Another thing that didn't connect was Alfred getting hit. He barely got any screen time so there wasn't any weight behind him getting hurt. If he died it wouldn't have mattered. Probably would've been better off saving that for movie 2 or 3 after the audience had time to connect with him.