The Passion of Kal-El

Rating: 2/10 (22 March 2016)

(Contains spoilers.)
Saw a screener for free in IMAX. I am not a DC fan but know the basics.
The good points of this movie:
-Glad they addressed the massive innocent body count of the last Superman movie.
-Cameos by future Justice League members were fun.
-Wonder Woman was awesome.
The bad:
-Fight to the death literally stops because Batman and Superman's mommies have the same first name and the one that isn't in dead is in trouble.
-Blatant, in-your-face Christ allegories. This is basically an Easter movie with superheroes.
-Amy Adams continues to be wasted talent as a Lois that doesn't do much besides get into peril repeatedly and need to be rescued. This gets pretty old.
-Several scenes that make little sense when you think about them too hard.
-If you've seen one Zack Snyder movie, you've seen them all, pretty much. You could cut out paper dolls of Supe and Bats and tape them to either side of your computer/TV screen and just re-watch Watchmen. I've read there's already a 3 hour directors' cut of this movie, because of course there is, because this is Zack Snyder.
-If you've ever read a Superman comic where he goes against Doomsday than nothing that happens is a shock.
-Way too many scenes "torn from the headlines" to make the world more "gritty and real" and instead come across as weird cultural callbacks: 9/11 towers falling in a plume of white dust, journalist captured and executed by terrorists in the desert (Daniel Pearl, et all), Hurricane Katrina, Boston bombings' iconic double leg amputee... those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head. Way too much reality in my superhero fantasy, thanks.
-Batfleck doesn't give a hoot and has basically no moral code whatsoever. It makes for an interesting anti-hero aspect but is jarring in the wake of three Nolan movies where he was unquestionably the hero. (Different universe, I know.) The feel of this Bats is too similar to Nolan's in styling and mood/theme: a lot of the just Batman footage feels like it was found on the cutting room floor of The Dark Knight Rises.
Wait for the rental.