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This is truly not a film for everyone. To judge it with full commitment as a nostalgic, being a serious fan and dissecting every frame, is not just a mistake, but an initial waste of energy in a completely wrong direction. The film is not about directing, searching for some kind of logic, or about deep themes, but about a near-apocalyptic atmosphere of neon-acidic decadence, which sharply contrasts with the reality of the real world and your expectations of a typical film about Batman from that era. Yes, with a touch of post-ironic humor about the cinematic genre of comics as such, but I don't consider it the main factor. And yet, it is still the best, most energetic, and funniest Batman film out of all the old ones; there's nothing to even discuss here. I think the main problem with the film's low rating among the public is that, in fact, it's a film from the twentieth century about comics and for children, and it's not designed for a demanding adult audience. But the modern Marvel industry, which has raised several generations of fans, "as if" no longer implies that you take your children to the cinema to see the Avengers, but gives you the illusion that you have a fantastic triple-A action movie here, which you watch on your own at the age of 25+ as a serious film, and you can even discuss it later over a Coca-Cola with other overweight guys, make a video analyzing the plot twists for a YouTube channel, and sit in threads discussing it on Reddit. As a result, you feel dissonance, trying to evaluate old films according to the same standards, although they had a different purpose. In this regard, the other old Batman films will look more favorably against the backdrop of Schumacher's film, because in them, Batman jumps from a roof into an alley, delivers a couple of blows to a gangster, and for the next half hour, we see him wandering in a black T-shirt through the dusty corridors of the mansion and reflecting, while the Joker/Penguin/Two-Face make faces, have fun with women, and smoke cigars, delivering the same cringeworthy one-liners, all in a black and gray color scheme – supposedly more serious. Nevertheless, in childhood, it was very boring to watch this stuff; that is, the films even performed their basic function very poorly, unlike Schumacher's spectacle of meta-irony.