A brutal battle from two of the biggest heroes on the planet.

Rating: 7/10 (24 March 2016)

I'm torn between two of my favourite Super heroes in Zac Snyders' latest flick: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. I didn't know who to root for while they tore down Metropolis and Gotham City in the process making themselves even more popular with the locals than the Avengers. I own Superman and Batman shoes, t-shirts, paintings, model cars even luggage so at times it was easier to back the villain Doomsday. This movie lacked coherency with more stop start than a modern car engine. It also lacked a sense of humour. Sure you have the occasional laugh, but this is a brutal movie that throws in everything for the fan boys and girls including the kitchen sink. (literally) Ben Affleck has done it all now including TV Superman, Dare Devil and now the Caped Crusader with even cooler toys and Bat Tunnel. He's ably assisted by wisecracking butler Jeremy Irons as Alfred (sorry no Robin) while Amy Adams steps up as Louis Lane to the mild mannered Henry Cavill as Clark Kent/Superman. The poor mans Samuel L, Laurence Fishburne, is the worst newspaper editor on the Daily Planet as Perry White. Wait till you hear his headlines...they elevate the Gold Coast Bulletin to Pulitzer prize winners. Jesse Eisenberg is mixing up Facebook founder with the Joker to give us his hairy rendition of Lex Luthor. What evil is brewing at Lex Corp? (cool logo though) If the creators had taken out the useless origin stories, flashbacks and trippy dream sequences this could have been so much better and shorter...(2 hours 31 minutes). It incorporated too many story lines with the last hour worth the price of admission in an otherwise fatuous telling of this great story arc. Thank goodness for Wonder Woman i'll root for her.