I reviewed this before on youtube.com, and haven't seen it since. Then I watched it again today. And I have to admit that the 2nd showing led me to believe that this effort is not as good as I had remembered.

First and foremost, the use of Batman villians in a Nightwing film kills the entire project for me. If Grayson wants to go it on his own and become his own man, why in God's name would he battle the Joker, a villian that Batman has defeated numerous times? I said this in my youtube.com review, if Nightwing/Dick Grayson is your central character, and Bludhaven is his backdrop, then everything pertaining to Gotham needs to be left out of the film. "Nightwing: A Night in Bludhaven", albeit a bad film, got that part right. It took a character we rarely see on film, and gave him his own world. Here, we see Dick Grayson with a new name fighting the same ol' baddies.

Another problem I had was the story. I didn't understand exactly what the plot was. Is it an origin film? Or just a transitional film where Robin makes the decision to become Nightwing. Also, as mentioned above, the use of the Joker is what kills the mood of the film. Why would he care if Bludhaven has a new hero? Last I remember, before being killed off in the comics, Bludhaven's big time crime boss is Roland Desmond, aka Blockbuster. So why not shoot for that villian, rather than recyling the Joker?

The camera angles also left much to be desired. Nothing to fancy here. Just standart static shots. I would suggest different angles for different characters. For instance, had you filmed a scene involving both Batman and Nightwing exchanging dialogue, Batman could've been filmed to seem as we were looking up to him. That would help gives us a better on screen persepctive of how Grayson views his mentor.

Speaking of dialogue...besides the thin monologue in the opening seconds, this trailer had nothing to help move the story. I know it's a trailer, but what people forget is that you're still trying to tell a story here, and the lack of dialogue does not help. I myself admit as a failure to execute such in my own film posted on this site, and I wish I had. It's understandable that this is only a trailer, but with some short, sharp dialogue exchanges between characters, I think that this easily could've become a much better trailer. Perhaps some lines between Bruce and Dick about why Dick feels the need to venture off and find himself. That would be money in the bank if you could nail the lines and emotion.

So, while I applaud your efforts, and don't get me wrong, this is not by any means a BAD trailer, I just felt that there where too many holes throughout what I saw on screen to give it a 3. I say 2.5, despite the options allotted by the ratings system.