Ambition failed

Rating: 5/10 (24 July 2016)

I am perhaps 30 minutes into this movie - somewhat early to be making a judgement but I am going to anyway. This is actually the second attempt to watch it with no expectations. I am still totally confused as none of the first scenes make any sense at all. It has the ambition of taking the subject material completely seriously which is a huge mistake. The main characters are superheroes - they cannot be taken as seriously as this film is trying to do. The very premise is flawed as Batman could not take on Superman and be successful. Batman is after all only a man with thousands of cool toys - Superman is, well, Superman - super strong, superfast, invulnerable (kryptonite aside), completely unbeatable. Snyder has made the whole thing far too dark for it to be really enjoyable - too many flaws in the premise. All that said the film looks great and has a quality for that . Affleck and Cavill acquit themselves as well as is possible but I can never see Am Adams as Lois Lane she is far too lightweight. Jesse Eisenberg is not the Lex Luthor we all know, he is much too young for a starter and he seems to inhabit a different sort of film - a lighter touch than this film requires. I always understood that he was supposed to be a contemporary of Superman. A very disappointing, mess of a movie. It has had lots of money thrown at it but that is just not enough.