Batman: Gotham Knight

Synopsis: In this 6-story anthology collection, Batman faces new villains and old ones in a time-line after Batman Begins. In "Have I Got A Story For You", 3 kids tell wildly different stories about Batman during a fight through Gotham. "Crossfire" focuses on two policemen who end up getting in the middle of a crime battle. "Field Test" has Lucius Fox creating a new technology for Batman, but is it too powerful? "In Darkness Dwells" features Killer Croc and Scarecrow, who have kidnapped a priest. "Working Through Pain" goes through flashbacks of Bruce Wayne's training while Batman finds his way through the sewers. Finally, "Deadshot" focuses on the titular sniper, who has a new target in Gotham.
Production: Warner Home Video
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
83%
PG-13
Year:
2008
75 min
Website
841 Views


[CLANKING]

Hey, yo, where you guys been?|I been here for, like, hours, man.

Ahh, you won't believe where I been.

Pfft! Hell with that.|You won't believe where I've been.

[CHUCKLES]

Uh-uh, mine beats all y'all.

Yeah? So? Who goes first?

Dude, like I said, I'm gonna top them all.

That's what you think.

B-DEVIL:
|So tell.

a little while ago, yeah?

[MAN HUMMING]

[MAN GRUNTS]

You're dead!

[LAUGHS]

[GRUNTS]

[PORKCHOP GRO ANS]

[GROWLS]

for this guy to totally waste me, right?

Then all of a sudden:

[RO ARS]

[GROWLS]

but I'm like, ''I so know who this is. ''

Batman.

[GRUNTING]

Dudes, he's like this living shadow.|Every time the guy gets a hand on him...

...he disappears back|into the other shadows.

Then pops out somewhere eIse.

No, man, he's more like--

Hold up, I'm not done.

[RO ARS]

Whoa, sick.

[HISSES]

Whoa, that's amazing, man.

Aw, he's tripping.|Batman ain't no living shadow.

I got that story totally capped.

-Slow down.|-Hey.

-Unh!|-Whoa.

[WOMAN SCREAMS]

[PEDESTRIANS MURMUR]

[GASPS]

[GRUNTS]

[ROCKET APPRO ACHING]

[SCREAMING]

[GUN C*CKS]

COP:
|Stop. Police.

Drop your gun.

[WOMAN GASPS]

PORKCHOP:
Yo, man. Sounds like|the dude I saw, except he couldn't fIy.

Yeah, well, that's when he showed up.

Who?

Batman.

[MAN IN BLACK AND WOMAN GRUNT]

[SCREAMING]

[SCREECHING]

Whoa, sick.

[GRUNTING]

[GRUNTS]

[TIRES SQUEAL]

[GRO ANS]

[GROWLS]

[NECK SQUELCHES]

[RO ARS]

Yo, wait a minute.

Batman never cut nobody's head off.

Everybody knows|he don't ever kill nobody.

I'm making it more colorful, yo.

Yeah, whatever.

[GROWLS]

[GRUNTS]

[GRUNTING]

Man, they pounded the tar|out of each other:

Pow, splat, kerplop, flurb!

[GRUNTS]

''Flurb''?

Whatever.

Anyway, they fought all the way|to the end of Rogers, man...

...all the way to the river.

[PANTING]

[GUNFIRE]

[GUN CLICKS]

[GRUNTS]

[SIGHS]

Yeah, well, the dude|ain't no giant flying bat.

-But it sounds like--|-Sounds like they picked up...

...over at the docks, by you.

I seen him and both of you are floating...

...if you think you know|what Batman really is.

He ain't no bat|and he ain't no spooky living shadow.

-How would you know?|-Because I saw him first.

[CROWD MURMURS]

WOMAN:
|What's going on?

Ladies and gentlemen, this is a robbery.

If you cooperate, everything will be fine|and you'll be home in time for dinner.

Now line up in front of me, take all|your valuables and place them in this case.

[HELICOPTER WHIRS]

MAN 1:
Let's get out of here.|MAN 2: Who is that?

Put down the guns.

Bite me.

[SCREAMING]

MAN 3:
|Look out!

MAN 4:
Aah! Run away!|MAN 5: Let's get out of here!

I ain't scared of you, man.

You didn't say that.

Did not.

Yeah, well, anyway,|you go ahead and fire, man.

I ain't afraid.

[GRUNTING]

[GRUNTS]

Whoa, sick.

Yo, man, are you guys messing with me?

Man, I miss all the action.

[GRUNTS]

[GRO ANS]

[KIDS MURMUR]

[KIDS COUGHING]

[COUGHS]

[CRUNCH]

[MO ANS]

[SIGHS]

[GRUNTS]

Nice work, kid.

Looks like I owe you one.

-What happened?|-Come on, man, spill it.

-He just vanished.|-That was Batman?

-What does he look like?|DANDER: Crazy.

I can't believe this. Come on, man.

Man, have I got a story for you guys.

[PHONE RINGING]

announced the launch date...

the Waynecom Seven.

of Wayne Enterprises...

represents the....

[WHOOSH NEARBY]

WOMAN:
|Cris.

Detective Allen.

Partner.

ALLEN:
|He's in there.

Right now, he's in there.

Again.

-Allen, Ramirez. Inside.|-Yes, sir.

And this would be?

Jacob Feely. Our man in black.

The high-tech psycho?

Just dropped in, did he, loo?

He's back in custody, Detective Allen.

That's good enough for me.

You and Detective Ramirez are going to|put Mr. FeeIy in some bar and leg cuffs...

...and take him back across the Narrows.

Yes, sir. This way, Mr. FeeIy.

Sergeant Del Arrazio says Maroni's guys|are gunning for The Russian, lieutenant.

He says it's going down in Tri-Corner,|probably tonight.

If you have a point, detective,|I'm still waiting to hear it.

Just wondering if now's the time|to be acting courier...

...for a vigilante, that's all, sir.

It's called trust, detective.

Something this city's had|in short supply until very recently.

But I don't trust him, sir.

You wiII.

You're like a dog with a bone.|You know that, partner?

-He's a vigilante.|RAMIREZ: He's not.

He's a vigilante, Anna.

He's not.

ALLEN:
So, what do you call him, then?|Crime-fighter?

Hell, I don't know.|I don't even know if he's human, Cris.

All I know is that this city's changing|for the better thanks to him.

You didn't grow up here,|you don't see it.

But I did and I do.

Major Crimes Unit,|Detective Ramirez and Detective Allen.

-Dropping off or picking up?|-Dropping off. Jacob Feely.

You found him? Nice job.

-We just looked and there he was.|COP: You been across since breakout?

-Haven't had the pleasure.|COP: Couple things to keep in mind, then:

The whole island's now asylum grounds.

Keep your doors locked|and the windows up...

...until you're at the administration building.|Do not stop.

Anyone you see on the streets|are inmates, not citizens.

Understood.

COP:
|I'll let them know you're coming.

Welcome back, Jacob.

ALLEN:
|Dispatch, Victor 3-2...

...we are 1 0-24,|en route to State for drop-off.

Victor 3-2, 1 0-4.

I gotta tell you, partner,|this place gives me the creeps.

A whole island abandoned to madness.

This whole city's abandoned to madness.

RAMIREZ:
|You are in a mood tonight.

ALLEN:
Yeah. I'm thinking of|transferring out of the MCU.

What? You can't.

We've been partnered six weeks, Anna,|it's not like we're married.

It's the Major Crimes Unit, Cris.

Gordon picked you|the same as he picked me.

He picked all the detectives in the squad.

You can't turn your back on that.

ALLEN:
|The Major Crimes Unit.

If we were stopping major crimes|like the gang war...

...that's been ripping this city into chunks|for almost a month, maybe I'd reconsider.

But that's not what we do, is it?

No, we run errands for a vigilante.

And that, partner, is just plain wrong.

Whoa!

You can't walk away from this...

...not when things|are finally beginning to change.

Not when the fact that you're an|honest cop is an asset, not a liability.

I don't know if we can trust the Batman.

But I know this:

Because of him, I'm not ashamed|of being a cop anymore.

[CAR APPRO ACHES]

-If you wanna give that up--|-Shh!

No, damn it, listen.

Anna, shut up.

RAMIREZ:
|Crap.

That's The Russian,|we're gonna need backup.

We're gonna need a lot of backup.

I told you and your Ivans|to stay the heII off my turf, Russian.

You have no turf, Maroni,|and you have no power.

Then come and get me,|you son of a b*tch.

[MEN GRO AN]

[YELLING]|Ten-thirty-four! Ten-thirty-four!

Southwest O'Neill and Morrison.

Southwest O'Neill and Morrison.

Be advised, backup ETA three minutes.

[YELLING]|We're gonna be dead in three minutes!

[GRO ANS]

[GUN CLICKS]

[PANTING]

Rocket launcher.

[LAUGHS]

Cris. Out!

ALLEN:
|Move your ass!

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