Dawn of Disappointment

Rating: 6/10 (28 March 2016)

Oh boy was this movie a mess. Now I can't say I really had high hopes going into this film because Man of Steel was a disjointed mess and Zack Snyder really isn't capable of bringing forth anything more than pretty action sequences and cool effects and that's all he really managed to do in BvS. I was really hoping he would prove me wrong but sadly he didn't. However I'll start with the positives because believe it or not there were a few:
Batman. Ben Affleck flat out knocked my socks off with the coolest, most bad-ass Batman ever to grace the big screen. He was gritty, brutal, charismatic and just about everything you hope for in Gotham's dark knight, and his chemistry with Jeremy Irons' Alfred (who was also one of the few other characters done very well) was phenomenal. He has reasons for everything he does in the film and I really cared for him as a character and was able to really understand where he comes from.
The only other positive was the first hour and a bit of this film which isn't all good but has its highlights. Without spoilers it's almost like a somewhat of a political thriller which did have me genuinely entertained for the most part and the second act fight scene between (MINOR SPOILER) Batman and Superman was SO COOL. Sadly after that the film lost any slight good it had going for it and really just made me sick to my stomach. There are so many plot holes in this movie, things that just happen and make no sense whatsoever and are covered up by dream scenes that try to fill these holes in. SO MANY DREAM SEQUENCES. The majority of the performances are awful especially Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor, which is probably one of the worst performances I've ever seen. He is psychotic but not in a good way like Heath Ledger's joker, but in an annoying twitchy way like a little kid who ingested too much sugar. Amy Adams as Lois Lane is an annoying plot device used as nothing more than to propel the weak story and the negatives don't stop there.
The Justice League setup sequences were SO forced it hurt and were so incoherent with the film it just completely took me out of the little immersion I was able to muster. Gal Gadot's role as Wonder Woman was short-lived and forgettable however I still preferred her over Henry Cavill's Superman who was as lifeless and boring as ever as to be expected for those who saw Man of Steel. The latter of the second act and the whole third act were a chore to sit through only heightened by the Batman fight scenes which were sadly few and far- between.
Overall this is a shallow film filled with an incoherent story and bad performances that dragged for the majority of its 2 and a half hour run time. Zack Snyder delivers hardly more than pretty explosions and stylized fights, and a movie that sadly would've been better as another solo Batman film.