Batman: Revenge is a movie premiered in 2014 and was the second movie of DC Extended Universe, was directed and starred Ben Affleck, Zack Snyder as producer.
Synopsis[]
Batman faces the mercenary Deathstroke who seeks revenge against the dark knight after an event that occurred several years ago, the hero of Gotham will have the help of the intelligent young Barbara Gordon who will help him in the difficult trials that Deathstroke will put against him.
Plot[]
The film opens with two cops finding several wounded criminals in a warehouse, the younger cop gets away and finds the gang leader chained and bloodied, then turning his gaze he sees Batman silently watching him from the darkness, the cop panics and starts shooting but Batman disappears into the shadows leaving the officer confused and grounded. In an opening sequence it is shown that Batman is spends several years protecting Gotham city and the citizens have created thousands of theories and legends about his origin or identity but most are convinced that he is a supernatural being or a Metahuman.
We then meet Bruce Wayne as a billionaire who pretends to be a carefree and extravagant man who enjoys helping the city with his company’s inventions but also seems to enjoy the public attention, but only his butler Alfred knows his true personality; he is a man who is obsessed with tackling Gotham’s crime and is haunted by his failures and the losses of his loved ones, Bruce has flashbacks where he imagines his alter ego Batman holding up a lifeless corpse in the middle of a burning ruin.
One night Bruce hosts a party where money is raised for charity, at the party he meets Commissioner Gordon accompanied by his daughter Barbara Gordon, she is a gifted teen who received a scholarship from Wayne Industries, while the party continues, some mysterious armed men begin to get rid of the building's security guards and begin to silently infiltrate, Bruce gives a speech remembering his parents legacy until he is interrupted by the appearance of the armed men who start rushing the guests, Jim and several cops try to confront them with their guns but Deathstroke appears and starts killing the cops, Bruce tries to confront Deathstroke's henchmen and Barbara observes him fighting, Jim is wounded by Deathstroke and Bruce tries to confront him but the mercenary has superhuman abilities and knocks Bruce down, Barbara tries to shoot Deathstroke with her father's gun but his armor protects him of the shots, Deathstroke is distracted by disarming Barbara and Bruce shoving him with a balcony, the villain falls from a great height and decides to leave knowing he has fulfilled his plan at that place. Jim is taken to a hospital, Barbara accompanies him and feels fury at Deathstroke's actions, Bruce offers to pay for Jim's medical expenses and Barbara remembers the fighting moves Bruce used and she knows she's seen them elsewhere.
Bruce investigates Deathstroke and discovers he is Slade Wilson, Bruce and Alfred know the reason why Slade wants to kill him (but it is still not revealed to the viewer) but they don't know how it was that Slade managed to discover his identity. Slade trains in his hideout and then looks at some pictures of Batman and Bruce Wayne revealing that he has been secretly watching him for a long time and is obsessed with getting revenge for something Batman did.
Barbara visits Bruce at his mansion and he thanks her for paying her father's medical bills, then asks questions about his fighting style but Bruce tries to evade the questions, Barbara claims she knows Bruce is Batman, Bruce laughs trying to disguise but Barbara recalls that when she was a little girl, she and her mother were abducted by kidnappers who wanted extort Jim but Batman saved them and she observes Batman fighting off all the kidnappers, she recognized Bruce's movements and states that she wants to help him stop Deathstroke, Bruce refuses to accept Barbara's help due to not wanting to put her in danger but she still has desires to stop Deathstroke.
Slade starts committing attacks against Wayne Industries and Batman tries to figure out his next target to avoid it, Barbara returns to the mansion and ensures that she has discovered how to track down Deathstroke, shows his great knack for computers by tracking a bunch of explosives being transported through the city, she confesses that she enters the police department to get technology that will help her identify the explosives, Bruce is amazed by her technological knowledge but continues to refuse to put her in danger, Alfred on the other hand believes that Barbara could help them with her knowledge and convinces Bruce of allowing Barbara to work with them in the Batcave.
Batman manages to prevent some of Deathstroke’s henchmen from provoking another attack and interrogates one of them to discover Deathstroke’s hideout, the henchman ends up confessing and Batman searches for Deathstroke in his hideout but the place seems to be lonely and boring, Slade appears without his armor and confronts Batman, the two have a very violent confrontation where they show off all their skills and Slade still has an advantage due to his strength and speed but Batman manages to injure him and tries to make him surrender but Slade says he won’t surrender until he gets revenge on Batman for what happened to Jericho, Batman again has weird flashbacks upon hearing Jericho’s name, Slade takes advantage of his distraction to knock him down and escape.
Bruce talks to Alfred in the Batcave and says that Deathstroke doesn’t want to kill him, he actually wants to make him suffer as revenge for what he did to Jericho Wilson, Barbara overhears their conversation and asks who Jericho is, Bruce doesn't want to talk about it and walks away but Alfred reveals everything: After the original Robin marched from Gotham, Bruce met a guy named Jason a year later and trained him to become the new Robin, he was Bruce’s new sidekick for several months until the Joker hired Jericho Wilson, Slade’s son to kidnap Jason, the Joker and Jericho tortured Jason until they caused him to blow up the warehouse where he was held captive, Bruce was so enraged by Jason's death that he searches for the Joker and Jericho for days, when he found Jericho, he attacked him with so much fury that he killed him by accident, Bruce has never forgiven himself for not protecting Jason and for killing Jericho.
Slade prepares his final step of the plan to destroy Batman's life and sends his henchmen to take hostages in Wayne Tower, Bruce learns of the situation and puts on his armor to go up to Wayne Tower, manages to stealthily take down everyone Slade's henchmen and free the hostages in no time but he knows that Slade is still planning something because it was too easy to stop Deathstroke's accomplices, soon Alfred calls him and informs him that intruders were detected in the mansion and the Batcave , he travels fast in the Batmobile but when he arrives he finds the mansion destroyed and discovers that Barbara and Alfred were taken hostage, Slade sends him a message to Batman citing him at the same location where Jericho died.
Bruce decides to use a new armor he has stashed under Wayne Tower, despite not being finished, he needs it to face Deathstroke. Slade's accomplices watch over Alfred and Barbara until Batman appears and attacks them all with great skill, frees Alfred and Barbara but Deathstroke appears, he tries to shoot Alfred but Batman manages to disarm him with a batarang and they have the final showdown, Batman and Deathstroke fight all over the place showing off their skills to the max, Batman manages to take the helmet off Deathstroke to hit him in the face but Slade manages to resist the pain and uses his weapons to damage Batman's armor, the hero is in trouble but Barbara appears with a batarang and nails it to Deathstroke in the eye, Slade feels enormous pain and Batman attacks him furiously making him bleed but Alfred stops him, Slade tries to induce Batman to kill him but he refuses.
4 months later, Slade is locked in a prison for Metahumans, appears wearing a patch and is still obsessed with his revenge, Jim is back at work and celebrating her daughter's 18th birthday, Barbara goes to the batcave and Bruce tells her that she has been a great ally for them and finally accepts her as his disciple, Barbara jokes that she will be the first female Robin but Bruce claims that she will actually be the first 'Batgirl' and she's excited about her future.
Eventually, Bruce visits the place where Jason died and remembers his failure that night but promises not to be tortured by it again. Batman watches the city from the buildings of Gotham and Jim turns on the bat signal showing that our hero still has many challenges to face.
Post-Credits Scene[]
The police find a group of murdered criminals, when they investigate the crime scene they find the word 'Red Hood' written in blood on a wall, everyone wonders who Red Hood is.
Pending update…
Main Cast[]
- Ben Affleck as Bruce Wayne/Batman
- Sophie Turner as Barbara Gordon/Batgirl
- Jeremy Irons as Alfred Pennyworth
- J.K. Simmons as Jim Gordon
- Joe Maganiello as Slade Wilson/Deathstroke