Badman vs Stupidman - Dawn of Darkness

Rating: 1/10 (23 August 2016)

This film has no reason to exist.
There's just no moral reason for the characters to be doing anything and Snyder (dir.) can't get any kind of connection between what's happening on screen and what's going on in peoples heads, let alone establish an emotional tone.
The script has a good turn of phrase now and again, for sure, but the earnestness becomes unintentionally funny after a while, when you realize the entire film is preposterous.
A combination of slick military propaganda and simplistic storytelling, the movies main enemies are a) Snyder's inability to make, feel, or create story ideas with a camera and written concepts, and secondly, criminally bad color grading, ruining acres of superior film craft, all professionally paid for and generally ignored or hated by the Comic Book Adaptation audience. (as if they have any choice, as there's hardly ever anything else on).
Last point, to coin a clichÃ© - the film's dramatic power is often indexed by how effective or magnetic the bad guy is. Dark Knight had the excellent Heath Ledger. This movie has a smirking, shallow, annoying dick called Jesse Eisenberg, who should have had a bit part in the movie making sandwiches or something in the background of the films endless, grim and very adult fantasy settings of offices, mansions, cityscapes and war zones, all aimed at bored, disappointed kids wasting what little money they have anyway.
I'd give this film a negative rating if the IMDb webmasters will set up such a function.