Someone calling himself The Red Hood attempts to take control of Gotham's criminal underworld, an act that doubles as a kind of challenge to Batman. The Dark Knight tries to prevent further casualties, but something about The Red Hood bothers him on a deeply personal level.
The character designs are mostly great, and there's some timely black humour, more often than not courtesy of Black Mask (Wade Williams).
It's rated PG 13, but the violence is more extreme than any of the previous films, with multiple murders, explosions, and even a bag of severed heads being thrown around. It's perhaps a case of making it more grim in the hopes that it'll appear more mature, but the result arguably lessens the dramatic power of the storytelling and at worst sullies the purity of the series.
3 flashbacks to a better time out of 5
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