An above average but ultimately disappointing film

Rating: 6/10 (25 March 2016)

This is one of the most anticipated films of all time and 3 years after it was announced I have now finally seen this film and it is pretty disappointing. The premise sees after the events of man of steel, Bruce Wayne believes that he has to take down superman to save the world so he suits up as batman and clashes with superman. Now everybody was worried when Ben Affleck was cast as Bruce Wayne/batman but he is easily the best part of this film. He truly delivers on the dual personalities of Wayne and batman so well and brings allot to his performance. He is also great in the action scenes with this being the most hard hitting version of batman ever. Henry cavill is back as superman and he does a good job in the role. He understands the character of superman and does a good job of bringing superman to the big screen. Gal gadot plays wonder woman in this film even though she isn't in the film that much I thought she did a great job while on screen. Jeremy irons is the new Alfred and he is brilliant in the role, he adds allot of depth to the character and his interactions with Affleck are great. Unfortunately, Amy Adams Lois lane wasn't given anything interesting to do in this film. Her character wasn't very interesting which didn't help. Also Jesse eisenberg is lex luthor in this film and I couldn't stand him in the role because he had nothing in common with lex luthor. He was just an awkward guy like eisenberg is in most of his films. The story has some decent drama in it, it does a good job of seeing both Batman's and Superman's point of view. However, the films plot is a bit of a mess with there clearly being forced tie ins to other characters and just twists that come out of nowhere and make very little sense. The script does really well in the dramatic department. But just like man of steel it is a very sombre film with no well done humour. Plus all the tie ins bog down the film. The style has some really good actions involved especially the main batman v superman fight. But towards the end of the film a lot of cgi gets added to the mix and it just doesn't really work and is quite hard to follow. Overall this is an alright film that if your a fan of comic book films will see but just go in with lower expectations.