Quartile rating: 7/10 · 1 rating
Six interlocking stories reveal Bruce Wayne's earliest adventures as Batman and the steps he took to become the grim avenger of Gotham City.
Batman: Gotham Knight is a genuinely distinctive anthology bridging Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, produced in collaboration with top Japanese animation studios including Madhouse and Production I.G. Each segment features radically different visual styles and tonal approaches, making the cinematography and animation design legitimately exceptional and singular. The anthology format applied to a superhero character was fresh and bold, earning high Novelty. However, the anthology structure also hurts narrative cohesion — the stories vary wildly in quality and the overall arc lacks a satisfying climactic resolution, resulting in a weak ending. Acting (voice work) is competent but unremarkable. The individual plots range from clever to thin, averaging out to above average.