Batman v His inability to let go of the past: Superman fights a giant slimy orc from Return of The King!

Rating: 4/10 (24 March 2016)

They had $250,000,000.00 to produce a film that set a new benchmark for scale, action and excitement balanced by clever characters and a meaningful plot.... and they blew it all on a movie that encapsulated a mess of unnecessary and overused CGI, unconvincing dialogue, noticeably poor green-screen acting and a plot that's so unrealistic it's was on par with transformers.
With such a strong and captivating beginning that coupled great filming editing with emotional music, I really had hope for the execution of this film... But man did it fell flat on its stupid head. Even the plot was convincing at first, with Bruce Wayne cleverly woven into Metropolis during the ending of Man of Steel (2013) combined with Lex Luthor's skilfully implemented plan that believably fueled Batman's hatred for Superman, the stage was set for the greatest gladiator fight in film history. But unfortunately that didn't happen... at all! And why is that you might ask? Well lets start with the big gabbing plot-holes:
1. Radioactive cell-targeting Kryptonite? Seriously? - In other words Superman's super-cells are basically getting cancer from high energy electromagnetic radiation. Whilst us humans are somehow immune? And lets not even think about where it came from and why it was on board the 'World engine' from Man of Steel which Superman somehow manages to destroy without his powers being effected! Oh and that same machine in-turn was connected to the spaceship that general Zod arrived on so... shouldn't Zod and his Kryptonian crew slowly be dying from cancer? Ahh... it gets worse!
2. Straight outta Lord of The Rings - After having his company headquarters destroyed by an irritated Batman, Lex Luthor (portrayed by Jesse Eisenberg) decides to take the remains of general Zod to the spaceship Clark found submerged beneath an ice-shelf in Man of Steel and wipe some blood on his dead face, which of course (as one would assume) will summon a giant orc from middle earth that literally had no fundamental plot importance accept for that fact it gave Wonder woman a reason to abandon boarding a plane and be included in the final CGI-abundant fight scene. I have nothing against Jesse Eisenberg's acting, but his portrayal of Lex was pretty disappointing. Although that opinion is completely subjective and to be fair since his character had no included background information on his motives or key past experiences he really didn't have much to work with in terms of creating a relationship between character and audience.
3. Easily avoidable self-sacrifice - Now, if Lois (played by Amy Adams) wasn't already confusing you enough with her completely illogical outbursts under critical circumstances like; picking up the Kryptonite spear and leaving it in a puddle for no particular reason at all, only to go back and fetch it moments later and almost drown to death, the fact that Superman (the only person who is also weakened by Kryptonite) decided to use to spear to kill the giant orc and himself in a supposedly noble self-sacrifice, will confuse you even more when you realise Wonder Woman could have done it herself and walked away unharmed since she's NOT from Krypton. God help us...
Now it's pretty easy to comprehend how this movie went from well- designed, satisfying story-telling to an incoherent, irrational chain of events that could qualify as comedy. Ben Affleck manufactured an authentic portrayal as Batman although his acting, along with Henry Cavil (Superman) was laughable at times. However in their defense even Leonardo Dicaprio couldn't make some of their lines seem natural! But the acting was the least of the problems in this movie. In the end when it comes to movies of this genre that involve high-budgets and expectations you either take the Chris Nolan route and create the Dark Knight or you follow the Michael Bay path and create Transformers. Now Michael Bay's films are definitely not as emotionally pleasing as Chris Nolan's work BUT their not meant to be! And thats where Zack Snyder failed in the making of this movie, he tried to blend to completely different styles of film-making together and ended up with another very average production to add to the IMDb list, but he and everyone else associated with this movie doesn't care they still get rich either way! 4/10 Thanks for reading, hope this helped.