Review of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) by Gamed2Long — 03 May 2016

The two words that best describe Batman V Superman are "wasted potential." It has all the ingredients to raise the bar from a simple comic book move to an all time classic. And then all those ingredients got into the wrong hands (whose wrong hands is a matter for debate), got chopped, blended, burned etc. and we ended up with this. So some people treat this movie as an enjoyable flick, while other and the critics are quite unhappy. On the surface, if you put your brain on pause, there is plenty of big budget action sequences and an OK enough plot. It is an OK action movie. Don't try to look for more though. None of it holds up to scrutiny or makes sense on a deeper level. There are awesome moments in this film. And there are stupid coincidences/contrivances that would stand out in a B movie. I particularly liked one of the dream sequences trying to recover the kryptonite . I would pay to see a movie that is just that, but with more of a story and a feature length. Ben Affleck makes a surprisingly good Batman, Jeremy Irons is a fun and interesting Alfred. Gal Gidot makes a fine wonder woman. Shame her character is completely 1 dimensional. But then, the same can be said for nearly all the characters in this movie.

Oh and the Batman Superman fight is pretty disappointing. Its completely one sided. Still better than the Doomsday fight which is an OP CG mess.