Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Everybody has an opinion good or bad, mostly bad, on the highly anticipated, greatly overestimated movie Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. So do I! Then let's begin... Fair warning beforehand: if you haven't seen the movie, this entry involves spoilers! (May also involve some swear words, I would like to apologise but this movie deserves it!)

Finally I got to see that epic failure of a movie everyone is talking about and boy was it bad! I had this feeling for months that it was going to be bad and to be honest the casting of Ben Affleck did have a major effect on this feeling, but to my surprise I found Affleck's performance pretty satisfying in the majority of the movie.

I have never had a problem with Henry Cavill. I am not the biggest Superman fan there is but Cavill sure turned the character into a much lovable hero I must day. His performance in Man of Steel was really good and he kept up the good work in this one too.

Since we started from the cast let's continue with Gal Gadot before we move on to the atrocities of the screenplay. Honestly, I couldn't have imagined a better casting for the wondrous Wonder Woman. (See what I did there?)

However, the great performance and an amazing character was wasted with so little screen time. Yeah yeah, Wonder Woman will get it's own movie and there will be Justice League blah blah... Still, I think that they either should have given her a bit more focus or should have excluded her entirely for this one.

The over-crowdedness of the storylines probably is the thing that messed up everyones opinion of this movie in the first place. The single movie which is approximately of a 2 and a half hours length involves 5 different storylines that deserve to have their own individual screen play about themselves.

At the end of the movie Man of Steel we were given the hints of people's potential for fearing Superman's power. The storyline of people versus Superman is big enough to make a movie but okay so dear Snyder decided to add Batman into the mix. Batman siding with the people against Superman a whole other storyline that should have been handled on its own. But it's not enough. Because there is also Lex Luthor to fuck the things up. You apprehended Luthor? Then here is BAM! here's Doomsday!

And Zack Snyder wanted to add the Joker and the Riddler in this movie too! It was almost going to be the entire DC universe under 3 hours.

The whole movie just jumps from vine to vine swinging between major plot points without doing justice to any of it.

Ever since his appearance in the trailers there has been huge controversy on Eisenberg's Lex Luthor. I personally like new approaches to old characters; and I definitely enjoyed Jesse Eisenberg performance. What was problematic to me in the character that the character was so manic that at moments I felt like I wasn't watching Lex Luthor but I was watching the Joker. The laugh, the mimics and gestures... It was a good performance but I though it was a bit too much for Luthor.

There were a lot of things that were problematic in the movie. First of all, there were many points that seemed important during the movie that are left unexplained. For example, after Batman wakes up from his second? dream (this movie by the way had more dreams in it than inception) a mysterious person comes through the screen rambling things about Louise Lane and am I too soon, I'm too soon... Thanks to my comic book fan boyfriend I learnt that was the Flash. Despite being very familiar with the character and his abilities, I wouldn't have guessed it on my own in a million years.

And why the hell Batman wears a coat on his bat suit? Just why?!

Two of the milestones in the movie that disturbed me most firstly was of course (as everybody has been complaining about) is the point the dispute between Batman and Superman was resolved. I mean if only Superman said the name Martha in the beginning of the movie, the city would be saved from a lot of destruction. Plus I don't get it; Lex Luthor knows that Superman is Clark Kent but "the worlds greatest detective" Batman doesn't? It's just plain stupid.

Second of all, in the second part of the movie we see Diana Prince fleeing from every scene that has a conflict in. Towards the very end we see her basically running from the city, until she sees the electric waves, or whatever they were, and she says "oh well, I have been running but what the heck, maybe I should go and check it out."

Also if you didn't already know that Diana Prince is the Wonder Woman, you can't figure it out just by watching the movie. Because her name is not mentioned once in the entire movie. Not once!

This has been a loooooong entry. But finally I have to say this: Jason Momoa as Aquaman is most likely the best casting I have ever seen. A character that is this humiliated can only be dignified this brilliantly. I can say that despite having this low opinion of this movie, I am looking forward to the Justice League; mainly to see Aquaman =))

Maybe not let Zack Snyder direct the next one? Pretty please?

And I leave you with Sad Affleck.

Thank you for reading my humble opinion.