Beautiful trash

Rating: 5/10 (26 February 2019)

A truly awful second film to continue the DCEU with. Zack Snyder is a visual director and the visuals in this film are truly beautiful surpassing Snyder's previous 'Man of Steel'. The effects mostly through the second half of the film are truly awful, as the final villain Doomsday looks like a failed ninja turtle. The story attempts to present itself as "Deep" but ultimately just doesn't make sense and is not executed well. Ben Affleck makes an excellent Batman and makes the character unique and his own in this interpretation, while Henry Cavill struggles as Superman to find good direction as his character barely says anything throughout the picture and is not an interesting hero to follow. The villain is extremely weak in that of Doomsday being a giant Cg mess and Jessie Eisenberg makes for an awful Lex Luthor channeling the character into a "Joker" type villain. Attempting to set up the entire Justice League into this movie makes it feel like another 'Iron Man 2' except it's not fun. The action is lackluster when there even is action, and the final fight is meaningless as it is just punching. The score by Hanz Zimmer and JunkieXL is excellent and makes for some memorable music. The music and visuals and Batman are essentially the only fun or interesting aspects of this movie, whether that makes the movie intriguing enough for you to see it is up to you, but it is truly a disaster of a film.