Title: If Only They'd Filmed THIS...
Product review: Most movie novelizations are forgettable, cash-in-on-the-hype projects. Not so this one. As others have said, this book is MUCH better than the film. If the moviemakers had only used it as their script, Forever could've been the best of the original Bat films.Peter David is a truly gifted writer, and the novel does a good job of tying the story back to what happened in the previous film, Batman Returns. He also develops the prior relationship of Batman and Harvey Dent/Two-Face and delves deeper into Bruce Wayne's personal anguish over Dent's fall from grace, as well as his feelings of guilt over his parents' deaths. The novel sheds much of the silliness in the characterizations of Riddler and Two-Face that proved distracting in the film.Frankly, I wasn't expecting much when I picked this up, but I was very impressed. It's not just a good Batman novel. It's a good novel.
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