Hack Snyder Finishes Off Destroying Cultural Icons

Rating: 1/10 (16 April 2016)

This film was a long drawn out tedious dismal bore. Period. If that wasn't bad enough, the beloved character of Superman is completely annihilated in a thoroughly insulting fashion. There are a lot of Zack Snyder fan boys worshiping this lackluster filmmaker of limited talent, and that's unfortunate. It's a monumental shame WB gave him the keys to any comic book hero film franchise at all, and I'm someone who actually thought "Watchmen" wasn't all that bad. People still love the characters of Batman, Superman, and Wonderwoman, but with that said, this is a movie that could have done close to Star Wars box office numbers. Instead, under the seriously flawed incompetent direction of a hack like Snyder, we got this mess. Even Michael Bay could have given the source material a desperately needed morsel of levity. All creative control should have been removed from Snyder, and this should have been a stand alone film under the direction of a much more talented and skilled filmmaker rebooting both Batman and Superman. That was yet another giant mistake by WB. This should never have been a followup to the much maligned and critically panned, "Man of Steel". In an effort to "nolanize" Superman, they allowed an inferior filmmaker compared to Christopher Nolan go completely off the rails with such a disconnected total misinterpretation of the Superman character to the extreme that it wasn't Superman. It would have made sense to have this be a followup if "Man of Steel" had been well-received like "Batman Begins". As the saying goes, fool me once WB shame on you. We were all fools to give them a second chance and pay money to see this poor excuse for what should have been an amazing film. The first two hours were a spectacular utter bore with subplots that were neither interesting enough to care about nor necessary. The character of Lex Luthor is an extremely intelligent criminal mastermind, not a socially awkward schizophrenic played by the miscast Jesse Eisenberg. The worst offense of this film is how Superman is killed off by an ill conceived CGI blob that was supposed to be Doomsday. Jimmy Olsen is shot and killed in the monotonous first half of the film in a scene that doesn't even identify who he is. He just appears out of nowhere. Holly Hunter's character is killed off. Laurence Fishburne's scenes could have been completely cut out. They added nothing to the story. If Snyder claims he actually does have reverence for these characters, I wouldn't want to see what he does with characters he doesn't. In fact, I don't want to see what he does with any other comic book character ever. Marvel will continue to dominate with their films over DC until massive changes are made. It's not rocket science. Like may other people who saw this film, I won't be paying to see "Justice League" as long as Hack Snyder and David Goyer have anything to do with it.