I told you so

Rating: 4/10 (3 April 2016)

I firmly believed Batman V Superman Dawn of Justice would be rubbish throughout the last couple of years. And I was right. Rather than trying to be a good superhero movie, this is pretty much an extended trailer for the DC Cinematic Universe. Hollywood evidently hasn't learnt anything at all from The Amazing Spider-Man 2 or Iron Man 2. In this movie, Batman takes on Superman as he disagrees with his actions, while Lex Luthor is also involved with some complicated scheme. Oh, and Wonder Woman's in there as well. She doesn't add anything to the movie to be honest. To be fair to BVS, it's not a complete disaster. The opening scene is pretty good, Ben Affleck proves the whole Batfleck controversy was a wildly unnecessary backlash with a mature, suitably understated performance and as can be expected from Zack Snyder it looks amazing. While admittedly the film does start to feel artificial at times, it does at least look amazing. In terms of acting, Jeremy Irons steals the show as Alfred. The trouble is, BVS is a mess of titanic proportions. Multiple underdeveloped, rushed elements clash together like a hyperactive prison riot and as a result the narrative is largely incoherent. The story is poorly structured, boring, makes no sense and most of the film was given away in the trailers. This is one painfully superficial movie, since it has so much going on there just isn't any depth. It may think it's serious, dark and powerful but sadly BVS is about as sophisticated and powerful as a Flash Beat 'em Up game and makes a mess out of a killer premise. Still, that's what I was expecting from the start.
4/10