Dawn of Disappointment

Rating: 6/10 (30 March 2020)

The reviews have been mostly bad, but I did not read any as the movie deserves a chance regardless of commentary. Sadness. This was a missed opportunity for everyone involved. My gripe is not with Zack Snyder, who did what he could with a pathetic script, nor even David S. Goyer who has proven to be a lesser writer without Jonathan Nolan as collaborator, but with the DC film executives. Too much was demanded from this movie and thus delivers very little.
It has been a decade since Christopher Nolan gave superhero films the authority to be edgy, dark, and serious, and somehow we got to the point that they now have license to be devoid of fun and basic storytelling aspects like plot, character development, and even reasonable logic for the things happening in the world on the big screen. What Sam Raimi, Joss Whedon, and the Russos fought so hard to cultivate, comics book movies as legitimate storytelling, was very much ruined in the span of ONE movie. Ironically comics themselves are just gaining this respect as a medium, a sad day for the genre.
Marvel was bold by taking a series of films in order to lead into their prize pig, The Avengers, while DC admitted to the world that their characters are incapable of rousing up enough interest minus their two big guns. Saddest of all is the needless "versus" aspect of the movie, because it is nonexistent. My excitement stemmed from a possible adaption of Frank Miller's visionary world of the "Dark Knight Strike Returns" or even the fun mash-up stories of Jeph Loeb. Instead we are treated to a run of the mill story that takes a page from the Michael Bay school of writing, blow everything up.