Meridian is immediately taken by him…in a strictly professional manner, of course.

Chase Meridian (Nicole Kidman), a psychiatrist working with Gotham PD. Batman, as he is wont to do, shows up and foils his plan, but not before his first meeting with Dr. The make-up on Two-Face by Rick Baker signals the garish absurdity of Schumacher’s vision here- color, color, color, the bolder, the better. In this film, we begin with a bank heist being carried out by Harvey “Two-Face” Dent, played here by Tommy Lee Jones, who was Schumacher’s top choice despite already having Billy Dee Williams (who played him in the original Burton film) contractually lined up for the role. (“Batman & Robin” is another matter, and will be dealt with next year.) I still prefer Burton’s films, and Michael Keaton’s work as Bruce Wayne/Batman, but the more family-friendly approach of Schumacher in this film cannot be so easily dismissed. At the time, the two biggest things that stood out for me were Jim Carrey’s performance as The Riddler and the circus-like production design, the latter of which took the look of the franchise in a 180-degree direction from where Burton went in his 1989 film and his 1992 sequel, “Batman Returns.” Seeing it again, my feelings about aren’t so tunnel vision. It’s been about 20 years since I’d seen Joel Schumacher’s first Batman film, and the third in the initial series Warner Bros.

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