MMM: #26 Batman: Under the Red Hood

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This was such a great movie with an amazing voice cast: Bruce Greenwood, Jensen Ackles, Neil Patrick Harris, Kelly Hu, Jason Isaacs... Awesome, awesome, awesome! Though I wouldn't have recognized Jensen's voice at all. Curious.

This movie actually made me all teary eyed. First when Jason died - the way he looked at the bomb and you could see him go, "Oh..." so sadly. And then, when Jason asked Bruce why he didn't kill Joker, just why. Not anybody else, just Joker, because Joker took Jason away from Bruce - and Bruce did nothing. Batman just stuck Joker into a prison, from where he kept breaking out again and again, doing whatever he wanted. You could see how heartbroken Jason was because his own death wasn't enough for Bruce to end Joker.

This story fascinates me to no end. And as blood-thirsty as it might sound, I actually agree with Jason - what Bruce does is pretty much useless: he catches the bad guys, they go to prison, someone breaks them out, they start killing again and Bruce goes on and catches them again. An endless circle with many innocent people dead and the bad guys laughing.

I think I will have to find out more about Jason Todd. I really liked Red Hood.