Batman Ninja

2018 • 85 minutes

About this movie

Japan’s finest artists reimagine Batman and his adversaries in this ground-breaking anime feature. In an all-new story, The Dark Knight travels to a land ruled by sword-wielding samurai and ninja assassins. Beginning in Gotham City, Gorilla Grodd’s time displacement machine malfunctions sending a crazed cast of tyrannical villains back in time to terrorize medieval Japan. The most depraved is Lord Joker, who seeks total domination of the feudal states and the final elimination of the legendary Batman. Can The Caped Crusader gain the advantage--without his signature tech-- to keep Lord Joker and the others from rewriting history? Watch as an ancient legend comes to life in this stunningly realized, adrenaline-fueled addition to the Batman saga.

Ratings and reviews

10 minutes in and this movie SUCKS! Writing is seriously as close to "unlistenable" as anything I've ever tried to watch. HOW CAN ANY DECISION MAKER AT DC OR WARNER BROS THINK THIS IS ANYTHING BUT AN EMBARRASSMENT???? First Justice League and now this - I"M DONE WITH DC. For the meaningless record Zack Snyder was by far the best man in charge of your universe before you made the mind boggling choice to ditch him and utterly ruin Justice League - AFTER a miserable Suicide Squad. WHAT IS WRONG with you people - hire great story tellers (see Russo brothers and Chris Nolan before he read his own clippings and released the awful Dark Knight Rises) and then trust them to make a great movie - you have ANY clue at all how to do that??? You owe me money for pathetic movie and the last 2 before it. You should be ashamed of robbing your fans like this - but at least this fan isn't going to be this stupid after this final insult - by the way as I type this it's been playing in the background and it's just getting worse by the minute. HORRIBLE dialogue - I mean horrible! And by the way - how is the animation so bad too - thought at least that part was going to be amazing - NOPE

I thought Gas Light/Lamp Batman (whatever) was bad, this one really took the cake. I agree with the other reviewers who thought that this was just some scenes from a video game. This was horrible, the only thing that made it watchable was the Joker's insanity. I must have been insane to sit through the whole movie. I guess I was hoping it would get better, but it didn't. 1 star for the Joker.

This has "Batman" in the title, but it has no relationship to the DC character or the DC universe, other than the names and costumes. It has the appearance of being an unfinished film that was stitched together from concept art, rough sketches, and some cheaply generated cel-animation into a film length sequence. Then someone improvised a script that was vaguely related to the visual sequences. Whoever produced this clearly didn't care whether the finished product had any quality or made any sense.