Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

Waste of time

Waste of Money.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Highly recommend this movie, especially the ultimate edition. Very gripping storyline and great action scenes, definitely my favourite comic book movie to date

This was probably one of my most anticipated movies so far and leaving the cinema back when I first saw it I couldn't really formulate my opinion on it properly.This review will be about the Ultimate Edition of the film...Let's start with the negatives and get them out of the way first. Lex Luthor was a very odd character and felt very out of place due to how he was written and performed.Doomsday was atrocious to say the least, the creation of doomsday was clever using general zods body but he felt crammed in and messed up the tone, as well as looking pretty bad.Wonder Woman, again was crammed in.The Justice league set up was bad and rushed.The is messy due to the action being spaced out until the end where it just goes overboard. The editing itself also is jolting mainly in the first act.The Batman and Superman conflict was way too quickly resolved and the entire movie should have been built mostly around this with world building for the future DC movies being less and also more subtle. The film just felt too big for it's own good and tried to do too much at once.The only interesting character in the film was Batman, the rest were just okay or bland.Now for the positives... Batman as mentioned was interesting to watch and Ben Affleck gives a great performance. He felt fresh and different whilst still having the classic batman feel. Probably my second favourite on screen Batman after Christian Bale.The acting overall was good to great, with the exception of Jesse Eisenberg (although I do think he usually is a good actor).The Action scenes such as the warehouse scene and the dream scene were great. They were well filmed and we'll choreographed. The warehouse scene was so detailed and intricate giving it a great visceral feel. The dream fight being one shot also made it stand out and was visually impressive.Speaking of visuals, the film looks very good in terms of cinematography and most of the visuals, besides Doomsday and some other small elementsThe choice to progress Man of Steels story in this way by having the end battle from that film tie into batman and Lex Luthor character motivations, as well was as the overall story concerning Superman's place on Earth was clever and interesting. Most of the music for this film was very good although not as memorable as the Dark Knight trilogies soundtrack for example. The worst piece on this soundtrack would have to be Lex Luthors theme which does fit the tone of his character but as mentioned he feels out of place and therefore this piece does and it feels a bit silly in comparison to the rest of the music such as Batman's theme.Overall the positives do outway the negatives but it is still a conflicting film to watch as there is so much that could have been done better such as tightening the script to focus more on Batman and Superman's conflict and forget about the Doomsday and Lex Luthor stuff. Also having a Batman vs Superman movie might have worked more at the end of the DC cinematic universe as there would be no need for the world building at that point. Still the film is somewhat enjoyable and I do recommend the Ultimate Edition as the plot is more cohesive but it does still feel to busy and messy a lot of the time.

This is one hell of a dark gloomy & very serious comic book movie!!! I really enjoy this film i don't have all the ridiculous pathetic over the top fan boy hate or the over the top unnecessarily critic venom, i simply enjoyed this as a great super hero movie with the greatest batman of all time!!! My ONLY big complaint would be Lex Luther!!! He was TERRIBLE. Luther aside i loved BEN AFFLECK, i loved the idea when it was first announced & his performance is the best in the movie & the best version of batman so far he's that great.The brutal fight scenes with Batman & thugs are BRILLIANT exactly & finally how i want to see Batman fight!!! Everything about BATMAN is perfect. WONDER WOMAN is also fantastic in her part & SUPERMAN is Fantastic in his torn up emotional part & the big fight with Batman is AMAZING!!! the movie looks fantastic,the cinematography is OUTSTANDING & also the music is great with real emotional punch.Zack Snyder is a fantastic Director.Batman vs Superman is a fantastic film with so much good in it & so many amazing scenes like the NIGHTMARE SCENE that is AMAZING!!! watch & enjoy i did

This movie did not make sense for the second film to expand the DCEU. Instead of this being the second DCEU film, Warner Bros should have made a Man of Steel 2 or Batman movie. Additionally, the marketing for this was awful because one of the trailers revealed doomsday and Batman and Superman working together, which were supposed to be the surprises of the movie. Batman's motivations against Superman are clear in this, but Superman's motivations against Batman are nonexistent and don't make sense. Wonder Woman was great in this movie and had really good fight scenes. The worst part of this movie was Lex Luthor. Jesse Eisenberg is a great actor, but he is just not meant for the role of Luthor. His character is just annoying and does not come across at all as smart or intimidating. Ben affleck is great as Batman and is very intimidating. Superman barely has any dialogue in the movie, which really hurts his character development. Having doomsday appear was a terrible idea. He looked terrible and wasn't intimidating. A main problem with this movie was that they tried to cram way too much into it. This movie had to be a sequel to man of steel, introduce Batman and Wonder Woman, set up Justice League, and have the death of Superman.