Awesome set up for the Justice League

Rating: 7/10 (26 March 2016)

So I just finished watching BvS for the second time, so here's my non spoilery review. Oh and be easy, it's my first IMDb review. Here goes. So I saw Batman V Superman Dawn of Justice for the second time today. The first time around watching it, I honestly just left the cinema in a state of awe. I couldn't sum up my feelings for it, did I just witness one of the best depictions of comic book to big screen?! Or did it fall short of being an Epic, all out battle between the 2 most iconic DC characters of all time!? And I have to say, it's a bit of both really. That's not just me sitting on the bench. This is me really trying to sum up my feelings in a way where it takes everything into consideration. Not just what happens in this movie, but what is to be expected from future projects. I will say this though, Snyder had a near impossible task of using one movie to literally set up the whole of the Justice League, and that is where I have to give him credit. The set up is very very good. Now that I've seen it a second time, I'm able to really process everything I've seen and truly understand what we have in store for us. We were pretty much given a glimpse of Wonderwoman and her powers (btw is she going to be able to fly?) and the other character cameos, not to mention that Flash sequence. All for the bigger role at play, what it is we're going to get from the solo Wonderwoman/ Batman/ Flash/ Aquaman/ Cyborg movies and not to mention the Justice League movies. We all know what's coming and it was done in a way that we have to really pull all of the pieces together. If you're a comic book fan, then doing that is easy, but I can imagine for someone who isn't necessarily a comic book fan, not finding it as easy to connect the dots. The movie is essentially an Introduction for the rest of the Justice League rather than just a self contained Batman V Superman movie. I do think that if Snyder focused on the movie as being just that one movie, I really think we would have had something a lot more special, and I mean that in the sense of just really focusing on introducing Batman, Superman and Wonderwoman, leaving out the Justice League aspects. I can totally understand why people might feel that the movie may not have gelled well and the fact that it raises a lot of unanswered questions. But I think that was the purpose of it, to have questions that need to be answered in Justice League Part 1 and 2. The movie had stunning visuals and an amazing score. The depiction of Batman, Superman and Wonderwoman was nigh on perfect, creating the dream Trinity on the big screen with Ben Affleck and Gal Gadot doing a really great job at bringing those characters to life like we've never seen them before! Affleck really made it his own and with the short glimpse we saw of Gal's Wonderwoman really making me look forward to the Wonderwoman movie that much more! I will stick to my initial guns from seeing the trailers, there was way too many spoilery moments, which in a way, ruined the whole experience. It left a lot of OMG moments quite stale, like the introduction of Wonderwoman and the Batman fight scene. However, this is not an issue at all seeing it the second time around. I've deliberately left out Lex Luthor because I really don't know how to sum up Snyder's vision for this character. I honestly think they miscast-ed for that role, but that's all I'm going to say. Doomsday was beast mode, but really could have been made to look a lot better, more in line with the comic book version. Although his powers and strength and abilities were very much in line with the comics. I do think though there was so much story to tell and literally no more time to tell it, which is why I guess we're having an extra 30 minutes added on to the R-rated Blu-Ray Ultimate Cut coming in July. All in all, I thought the movie brought the characters to life in a really great way, which would make any comic book lover proud. And it paves the way for the rest of the DCEU, really making you think about and get excited for what is yet to come. If you've gone into this movie with the Marvel formula expectation then you will definitely be disappointed. Snyder and Co. are doing things very differently to Marvel and that is not a bad thing. Things will start to make more sense as the movies release and we start to realise why things were set up the way they were. It was definitely entertaining to watch and a true Cinematic experience and I will be seeing it again.