Batman: Hush [2019]
I watched this a while back and... and it's pretty neat! It's a relatively solid adaptation and movie, although it did come under fire for changing the identity of Hush into a different character, merging a different aspect of the original graphic novel that Hush was based upon. And... I dunno, it works a lot better, in my opinion? Of course, I've always found the conclusion of the original Hush storyline to be a bit lukewarm after the amazing buildup, so that's definitely a bit of bias from me.
The movie does a pretty smart thing in cutting out a lot of the more superfluous parts, focusing on the biggest and most iconic parts of the story -- Batman beating up Joker in an alley, Batman and Catwoman's romance and relationship, the fight against Superman in Metropolis... but with the sheer amount of content in the Hush graphic novel they had to fit into the hour, things ended up feeling definitely rushed. The focus this time around is less on the mystery, but more of an analysis on whether an open, all-cards-on-the-table relationship between Batman and Catwoman is going to work, what with a villain that's targetting people close to Batman and everything, and whether Batman's ever going to put his own happiness and personal life above his own happiness. Like The Death of Superman, it does give the otherwise cluttered storyline a huge emotional focus and backbone to build on, and I'm definitely a fan of it.
Like most DC universe movies, though, there really isn't a whole ton for me to say without going on a scene-by-scene breakdown other than this one's a neat adaptation of the original storyline that ends up rearranging some scenes and changing the identity of the Big Bad (or, well, swapping the roles around)... and I felt like for the story they're trying to tell, it works. Overall, a pretty solid movie.
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