Cant decide if this or Cap 2 is my favourite CBM

Rating: 10/10 (25 March 2016)

This movie has faults. I feel some of the running time could have been shaved, and a couple of Lex Luthor scenes are a bit OTT. Those are my only complaints. Frankly, this movie completely blew me away. The performances bear particular emphasis. Ben Affleck and Gal Gadot are so perfectly cast and give such strong performances that I am now wondering how I ever doubted them. I never doubted Jeremy Irons, and he lived up to my expectations. The returning cast also get a chance to stretch their acting muscles and more than live up to the task, in particular Henry Cavill who has a couple of scenes where we can truly see his talent. Jesse Eisenberg, when given the right material, has some suitably creepy scenes that made me squirm in my seat Not only are the performances great, but the action is as well. It's a Zach Snyder movie, of course the action would be great. The Batman Superman fight is brilliant, and I had about twenty nerdgasms every single frame. The story is also strong. Whilst it is a little long, it still makes the conflict believable and the characters seem extremely close to the comic book. The OTT Lex Luthor scenes seemed to be more the product of Eisenberg than the script. Overall, I was cautious about this movie given how critics I now to be DC fans tore it to pieces, but I walked out and now need to decide whether this or Cap 2 is my favourite comic book movie.