One of the worst films ever made, Zack Snyder truly is a hack (Beware, this review section is filled with Hack Snyder fanboys)

Rating: 1/10 (26 October 2018)

I wanted to like this movie, I really did. I mean it's frickin Batman meeting Superman for the first time on the big screen for god's sake, I have fond memories of reading their comics and watching the Justice League cartoons as a child but Zack Snyder just doesn't get these characters.
This film is honestly a disgrace to the legacy and history of all the comic book characters it adapts, his brooding Superman is basically Batman with superpowers, Batman is a remorseless killer and Lex Luthor is a wannabe Joker mixed in with Mark Zuckerberg. It's like Zack Snyder thought how to best make these characters as unappealing and as far removed from their traditional portrayals as possible and then decided to make them the opposite of what makes these characters intriguing and interesting to people.
People at this point might interject to tell me these characters were changed to fit the story that they were trying to tell, but I'm telling you that the plot is a nonsensical mess too. Batman is pissed off at Superman because he holds him responsible for all the deaths and destruction caused in Metropolis but then goes and runs over a bunch of criminals and people's properties with his Batmobile, what a hypocrite. Not to mention the worlds greatest detective doesn't even bother to do a background check on Superman despite meeting face to face and knowing his real name and where he works at earlier in the movie, which if he did, he'd know that Superman has a human mother named Martha and we wouldn't have to deal with one of the most poorly executed and hamfisted scenes ever put on film. Lex Luthor's "genius plan" when he fails to get Batman to kill Superman is to unleash an unstoppable killing machine that in no way could possibly end up well for him, either Superman defeats Doomsday and Lex goes to jail or Doomsday kills Superman and destroys everyone and everything in it's path which just happens to be on the planet Lex frickin lives on, what the hell was he thinking.

Honestly the worst superhero movie I've ever seen. Some people might be going are you for real? What about abominations like Catwoman or Green Lantern? While they were terrible absolutely terrible films, I wasn't anywhere near as invested or hyped for those films as I was for this one. The fact that I had so much expectations from this just makes this film far more disappointing than any other poorly made run of the mill superhero film.