Directed by : Zack Snyder
Written by : Chris Terrio, David S. Goyer
Starring : Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Jesse Eisenberg
Release Date : March 23, 2016
It's important to remind yourself that "Batman v Superman : Dawn Of Justice" is not a Marvel comic book movie. I say that because while Marvel goes for that adventurous and fun tone in their movies, Warner Bros / DC Comics is going for a more serious and more epic angle here. Many will criticize the movie for being too serious, and others will say it's not epic enough. I myself can halfheartedly agree with those sentiments, but I don't think it was an absolutely horrible movie. When it does have problems though, they are pretty glaring and disappointing. On the flip-side, the movie does do some good things, and when they're really good, they're amazing.
My biggest complaint about the movie is the writing. It's too contrived, and hamfisted at times. I also have my own geek-related issues as well, and it's mostly in how they wrote the character of Batman / Bruce Wayne, with him being very one-dimensional. There are also plot conveniences that bugged me, and it didn't help that the pacing was all over the place. Some people might find the movie's attempt at world building the connected continuity to the other DC heroes to be too distracting, and only adds to the many elements of the story that might be confusing to some. With that said, I did actually like the overall plot and really appreciated the themes of the story, and those positive factors helped prevent this from being a complete disaster of a movie.
While I have my issues with Batman as a character in this, I did like Ben Affleck in the role, and his fight sequences are pretty cool. Henry Cavill steps it up as Superman / Clark Kent, and it's a huge improvement over how his character was on "Man Of Steel." The same goes to Amy Adams in her role as Lois Lane, with her getting more significant things to do here. The MVPs of the movie however has to be the supporting casts of Jeremy Irons as Alfred, and Laurence Fishburne as Perry White, who both adds some snappy levity to an otherwise dour and earnest script. Speaking of which, I really really liked Jesse Eisenberg's portrayal of a very energetic and fast talking mad genius that is Lex Luthor, and really justifies himself as the main villain of this story. Oh and Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman was just fine.
The main conceit and the reason most people will want to watch "Batman v Superman : Dawn Of Justice" is to see Batman duke it out with Superman. I have to honestly say that the fight sequence itself didn't fully live up to the hype and build up to it. It wasn't a horrible fight, but it was just okay. Just like this movie.
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