A thorough and remarkable performance by Ben Affleck congested in an inconveniently slow paced movie

Rating: 6/10 (2 April 2017)

Make no mistake, batman v superman :dawn of justice is an astonishing picture , it proves conclusively that Zack Snyder is a visionary and a world class director, yet in spite of all the respect that I give for all his pictures, I contest deeply over one single small yet crucial detail : the excessive length. The movie was filled with unnecessary and annoyingly lengthy scenes. For example, all of superman's meaningless walks through the capitol building or the streets of New York were easily, and in my opinion harmlessly expendable. Those spare moments would have been creatively used by the director or the screen writer to shed more light on one of this movie's biggest triumphs: the batman. Ben Affleck's performance was by all means this movie's last and best hope. I hate to use one of this domain's most utilized expressions but his acting was incredible, and this was for him the ultimate challenge. Because before I watched BvS, I had seen the dark knight returns: one of the few animated movies that have deeply touched me. This old masterpiece was DC's last fascinating movie that had, unexpectedly, amazing voice acting. The resemblance between that movie and the one we are talking about is uncanny , it even follows the same story arc but with a few big changes that made the batman character more intriguing, because it is for the first time since Michael Keaton's unforgettable performance in Tim Burton 's dark fantasy, that we see batman killing without remorse, affirming that he is no longer the guardian that Gotham deserved. It seemed like the incorruptible knight has finally fallen to the temptations of taking a man's life and this in itself is extremely shocking, because something must of had shattered his values and I as everyone who have seen the movie are craving to know what forced this man to show such brutality and despair. That's why Alfred pennyworth ,played by Jeremy irons, is for me one of this movie's essential pillars: satirical though as he may seem Alfred is this time worried about the safety of his friend and master, because the world has gone crazy since the arrival of the man of steel, whose mere existence in this movie ruined it for me . Henry cavil had his glorious moments and will undoubtedly have even more, but this movie is by far not one of them. In the time when every single member of the cast had shown a spark of good acting, Henry cavil exhibited such coldness and passiveness that he turned to be unworthy of this movies time, unfortunately he was there in every moment and every scene to the point that I started to doubt his acting skills In a nutshell, this movie might have been this year's biggest disappointment as the majority of the critics had confirmed .And I approve with certainty that this movie was the victim of poor editing and rushed screen writing, but at least showed us the bright side: the future of the dark knight is in safe hands.