Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1

An excellent first part which perfectly captures a standard superhero’s retirement. I must admit that the movie made me modify my opinion on comics, because this really isn't for kids. Honestly, something so dark, violent and brutal is rarely seen in a comic book. But, in fact, that's exactly what the book is like. Although the two main storylines are intertwined, they are different in terms of quality. Two-Face and everything around him is great and the end of his fight with Batman is brilliant. The second storyline isn’t as good because the leader of the mutants is a weak and insignificant villain. Nevertheless, the movie as a whole is really good. (19/08/2015)

It is incomprehensible to me that while all the unmistakably Batman-style stories that were later adapted into animated adaptations (Batman: Hush, Batman: Gotham by Gaslight) are modified, shortened, and even have the endings changed, Frank Miller's ticket to the comic book elite is instead rewritten in a servile and almost laughable way. It does have a sufficiently dark titular hero and a perfect storyline with Dent, but very often it tells the story through reporters on the TV screen, which repeatedly threw me off pace in the source material and unfortunately doesn't make sense in the film adaptation either. (30/11/2020)

It is rather sad (and inappropriate) to adapt a comic that in its time both stood up to and defined itself against the mainstream (super)heroic movement in the most mainstream form possible, with attractive artwork and an emphasis on action. (14/02/2013)

The original is on a higher level, but Oliva approached it from the right direction. Weller’s thunderous voice is just right for the old man whose psychopath inside awoke with a mission to wipe out injustice. Good drawing, and the fights have pace and style. On the right road. (25/01/2013)