Big mess with pretty visuals

Rating: 4/10 (1 April 2016)

Batman v Superman is the long awaited movie starring Ben Affleck as Batman, Henry Cavill as Superman, and Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luther. Everyone has been expecting this movie for a really long time, even myself. The films plot revolves around Superman, and that many people are questioning if he is really a superhero or an alien that can destroy everything. And Batman is caught in the middle of this as in the beginning of the movie, superman was destroying buildings and basically the whole city (This was the ending of Man of Steel). I am not going to spoil a lot of you haven't seen the movie, but if you seen the trailers, you unfortunately know the whole plot and movie with some twists. Positively, Batman looks really good. I think Ben Affleck did a perfect job on portraying that character. His new suit look amazing, and he really did sold me as Bruce Wayne (Although I personally prefer Christian Bale). But i don't really know what the writers were thinking when Batman is seen as a killer and he steals. I really did not have a problem IF they explained why did he killed people and stole, but the movie did not really bother to tell the audience why Batman was doing this. The visuals are good, the CGI is great, and some of the battle sequences were great, no complaints there. Superman was fine, the actor made his role and he was kind off conflicted, the film does not really says much about that. All the actors were great with one exception. Lex Luthor is really annoying, everything he says does not make sense, he is trying to be the next Joker, but fails miserably. Jesse Eisenberg was a bad choice for him, and he was not an interesting character at all. The writing, the pacing and the overall plot is a gigantic mess. In the beginning of the film, it tells the back story of young Bruce Wayne, visuals aside, it was also really awkward as when Bruce falls to the hole with the bats, the bats start gravitating him??? I don't know what they were thinking, but it felt really dumb. Then the film puts the perspective of Ben Affleck and he starts seeing a city being destroyed and many die including a friend of him and his own building. Then the plot starts. It fells like there are WAY to many cuts. Like they made this film R rated but chopped down to be a PG-13 film. Then Lex Luther suddenly appears in his company, then Louis Lane, Perry White, etc. This is where the film starts falling apart completely to the ground. There is literally a 5 min little story for every character, Batman, then Superman, then Lex, then Louis Lane, Then Louise Lane, then the film becomes man of steel 2, kind of. It seems like they made Man of Steel 2, and then cut bits and pieces of the that film and put it in this film. The movie is so broken, that it feels like 4 movies at once and thats my biggest problem. It does not focus on one story, it focus on Batman with Alfred, then Superman and Louis, then Lex Luther (which in my opinion has one of the most awkward and uncomfortable moments I have ever seen in a movie), then some senate debate. It does not feel grounded, it fells broken and messy. Then the film does the very stupid thing (some) comic book movies do nowadays and Batman sends an Email to Wonder Woman, in which she opens certain files about the next movie Justice League. That was the most out of place and awkward scene in the entire movie. There another tie end scene with Flash telling him some information that does not make sense. The battle the movie advertises starts great, then good, then fine, to overdone, to really short. The fight last about 8-10 min. and it ends really stupid. The ending with the monster was really bad, there were like 3-4 moments in the entire final battle that felt bad-ass, and investing. When they beat it, it felt predictable and really corny. The inclusion of Wonder Woman was forced, I did not care at all when Superman died, and the final shot was so stupid and the most comic book movie thing to do to have senseless questions. There are some really good things but the bad things overcome the good and it feels broken, misleading. I loved the Batman scenes and the acting overall was good but it was so chopped up, i did not really know what was going on. 4/10