1) Christian Bale
Ben Affleck makes for a fine Bruce Wayne. Good enough in BvS to banish memories of his woeful turn in Daredevil and then some, watching Affleck’s turn as a brutish, sadistic Batman soured by years (maybe even decades) of trying to clean up the streets of Gotham is one of the purest pleasures of Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice. Is his the definitive portrayal, though? Not quite.
[zergpaid]Try as anyone might, it’s never going to be easy for anyone to top what Christian Bale did in Nolan’s the Dark Knight trilogy. Convincingly turning Bruce Wayne into a sensitive, troubled, Howard Hughes-esque playboy billionaire, Bale set the bar for what a superhero performance could look like. Quite simply, no actor has brought more dimensions to the superhero character than Bale, and not even Affleck is able to challenge that.
Published: Apr 4, 2016 02:34 pm