Ranking: Every Batman Movie Final Battle From Worst To Best

9. Batman Forever (1995)

For all of the visual splendour that Joel Schumacher's first Batman movie brings to the table, the final showdown is awfully anti-climactic. There's the giddy fun of Batman (Val Kilmer) and Robin (Chris O'Donnell) becoming pawns in a real-life game of Battleship between The Riddler and Two-Face (Tommy Lee Jones), but other than that campy interlude, it's weirdly dull.

There's no grand fight scene against the two villains, just Batman rescuing Robin and Dr. Chase Meridian (Nicole Kidman) from a death-drop and then causing The Riddler to have a mental breakdown, before throwing a bunch of coins at Two-Face, which makes him fall to his death.

They're both extremely lame, lazy ways of dispatching iconic villains, and regardless of your own verdict of Carrey and Jones' portrayals, the characters unquestionably deserved better. Plus, Batman straight-up murders Two-Face, which isn't cool (and not the last time Batman does it on-screen, either).

For all of the clear time, money and effort invested in making Batman Forever an elaborate production, it's like money just ran out at the final stretch.