THE BATMAN SPOILERS

>The Riddler begins killing corrupt city officials and leaves clues to Batman because he knows that Batman is Bruce Wayne and believes they are on the same time, and he wants Batman to uncover the truth of his family’s corruption.

>Thomas Wayne saved Carmine Falcone after he was shot, and later decided to run for Mayor and created a “Revival Plan” through which he invested one billion dollars into renewing the city. A reporter found out Martha Wayne had been institutionalized several times for mental health problems, and threatened Thomas with it, so he asked Falcone to intimidate the reporter into silence, but Falcone instead killed the reporter and used it to blackmail Thomas. Thomas threatened to go to the police, so Falcone had him and Martha killed, and took over the Revival Plan to launder money.

>Riddler was an orphan and went insane when the Waynes died, and he was left in an orphanage "having his fingers chewed on by rats and watching babies die because it’s so cold." He grew up, burned down the orphanage, uncovered the corruption behind the Revival Plan and decided to punish the people responsible. He has followers that he recruits through a Any Forums-esque internet message board, and while he initially claims to want to root out corruption in Gotham, he eventually admits he wants revenge on the rich and will implement “real change” by destroying the city.

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>Batman teams up with Catwoman, Falcone’s illegitimate daughter who is investigating the disappearance of her friend (Riddler killed her as part of a plot to get to the Mayor). They find out that Riddler’s main target is an informant who betrayed Gotham’s drug lord Sal Maroni to the police, and suspect it is Falcone’s main enforcer, the Penguin, leading to a big fight at the Iceberg Lounge. Batman eventually figures out that the informant is Falcone himself. He took out Maroni to take over the drug trade and paid off the city officials with money from the Revival Plan to look the other way.

>Falcone is arrested, but Riddler kills him and then gives himself up to the police. Batman interrogates him in prison and figures out he has another plan in motion: His followers bomb the seawalls, flooding Gotham and causing the elites to take shelter at the Gotham Square Plaza, where the followers are waiting to kill them. Batman and Catwoman intervene, save the people and defeat the Riddler’s goons. At one point, Batman is shot point-blank in the chest with a shotgun and injects himself with a green liquid to keep going.

Batman stays behind to help the injured get airlifted out of the partially flooded Gotham Square Plaza, and realizes he needs to be a symbol of hope, not a symbol of vengeance. By the end of the movie, Bruce is a happier person and makes amends with Alfred, the people hail Batman as a hero, Gordon gets a promotion, and Penguin plans to take over Falcone’s empire. Final scene is Batman meeting Catwoman at the cemetery where she is visiting her friend’s grave. She says she is leaving Gotham and asks Batman to come with her, but realizes he can’t because the mask is his true face, the city needs him, you know the drill. Last scene is Batman and Catwoman driving away on their motorcycles on opposite directions, and Batman sadly watching Catwoman through the rearview mirror as she disappears into the mist.

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In one of the final scenes, we see the Riddler on Arkham watching a television report about Batman foiling his plan. The prisoner next door tells him he did great (which is a callback to an earlier conversation between Batman and Riddler where Riddler says the same and Batman tells him Riddler’s crimes were his alone), and that Gotham has a way of making clowns of them all. He then gives the Riddler a riddle of his own (“What’s more valuable the fewer you have?”), Riddler answers “a friend”, and then they both start chuckling, but the prisoner begins laughing louder and louder, and through the hazy glass window we see he has a Glasgow smile and greenish hair. Barry Keoghan plays the “unseen prisoner”, but his face is never seen.

Also, the reporter who threatens Thomas Wayne has the last name “Elliot” and Riddler’s video about it begins with HUSH in huge bold letter.

Some people also seem to think the green liquid Batman injects himself with could be a nod to Venom, but it just looked like regular adrenaline to me.

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Joker?

I am okay with all of that if true.

Most reviews said this film was good until the 3rd act. This doesn't sound that bad.

I'm so tired of "But what if The Waynes weren't all that good???" plots

I really hate the whole trope short hand of connecting the Waynes to bad shit like this film does.

Colin Farrell seems like he's the only guy in the cast who knows he's in a superhero movie.

I can see some of those people dissapointed for the 3rd act because 1 and 2 was, apparently, a slow-burn noir mystery, which later evolved into usual capeshit material in the third act, sequel bait included.