{"id":48412,"date":"2014-11-18T08:12:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T15:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/18\/movie-review-batman-assault-on-arkham-2014.html"},"modified":"2015-05-08T12:47:30","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T18:47:30","slug":"movie-review-batman-assault-on-arkham-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/18\/movie-review-batman-assault-on-arkham-2014.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: &quot;Batman: Assault on Arkham&quot; (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, it&#39;s Father\/Daughter Movie Week again. I got to lead off with an animated feature I&#39;ve wanted to get to for some time. Because it&#39;s not really a Batman video &#8212; it&#39;s a Suicide Squad feature. And a pretty darned good one at that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/batman-assault-on-arkham'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/YKk31QZp3cEUAHTdN6GlIKzN-8LhUxVGf4wZKeoQnzLXIKirT60lOd5AKK_JeP6pjBhwHM-kGA7XOnF49DLa6VdxoROL84rnKBpZsc_xgPdV_i0vxVwCcmbiIMe4kOt_u04DYqChWcHOzfMsqgqhKpK1z0Y9ayniS0Nxj9oSwI0_1lB7=w120-h120' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/batman-assault-on-arkham'>A &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&frac12; review of Batman: Assault on Arkham (2014)<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nWhile ostensibly a Batman animated feature, in reality this is a Suicide Squad \/ Task Force X flick, headlining Deadshot as he leads a band of fellow sociopaths (Harley Quinn, Black Spider, Killer Frost, King Shark, Captain Boomerang) into Arkham Asylum to recover a McGuffin at the behest of Amanda Waller. Batman eventually plays a role, but it only ramps up in the last half of the feature, and he really comes across second-billed to Deadshot, le&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/XUXyNQCvEY4'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, it&#39;s Father\/Daughter Movie Week again. I got to lead off with an animated feature I&#39;ve wanted to get to for some time. Because it&#39;s not really a Batman video &#8212; it&#39;s a Suicide Squad feature. And a pretty darned good one at that. A &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&frac12; review of Batman: Assault on Arkham (2014) While ostensibly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/18\/movie-review-batman-assault-on-arkham-2014.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Movie Review: &quot;Batman: Assault on Arkham&quot; (2014)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,852],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-dc-cinematic-univese"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129547,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/23\/movie-review-batman-assault-on-arkham-2014-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":48412,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: &quot;Batman: Assault on Arkham&quot; (2014)*","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 23-Jan-16 2:54pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Rewatched this with the upcoming live-action Suicide Squad film in mind, and, yeah, this hits the tone and characterization that movie really needs to nail. 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At least that's what I like to do after the inflight entertainment system reboots ... 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