Nice Set Up For The JLA

Rating: 7/10 (25 March 2016)

I saw "Batman v Superman:Dawn of Justice", starring Ben Affleck-Gone Girl, Daredevil; Henry Cavill-The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Red Riding Hood; Jesse Eisenberg-American Ultra, 30 Minutes or Less and Gal Gadot-Triple 9, The Fast & Furious movies.
This is DC's big entry into the team comic book movies, such as Marvel's The Avengers. The Justice in the title is referring to the Justice League. This movie continues from the events of 2013's The Man of Steel and is leading up to the Justice League movies-there are some very short glimpses of other heroes from the future JLA movies in this movie. At the end of Man of Steel, Henry/Superman and General Zod had a knock down, drag out fight that destroyed property and endangered lives. Ben/Batman thinks Henry should be held accountable and decides it's up to him to bring Superman to justice. If you are at all familiar with comic books, this is a frequent happening, where two heroes have a misunderstanding at first, fight each other and then become friends and team up to fight the bad guys in the end. Most non-comic book readers ask, "Just how can Batman even fight Superman?" One word, and it starts with a 'K'. That is one of the reasons why I like Batman; he plans his battles in advance to level the playing field-In the comics, Batman has files on all of his teammates and how he can take them down, just in case of an emergency. Jesse plays Lex Luthor who has his hands in several bad guy type activity; smuggling, selling weapons and Oh Yeah, creating monsters. One such creation is Doomsday. Doomsday is the reason our heroes get to team up, and they even include their female member Gal/Wonder Woman. Overall, it's pretty good. A little slow in places, and that seems weird saying that, in a two & a half hour movie, but it was enjoyable. One caution; Some people may not like the ending but it is straight out of the comics. It's rated "PG-13" for action, violence and sexual content-no nudity-and has a running time of 2 hours and 31 minutes. It was good to see the set up for the JLA and I would buy it on Blu-Ray.