Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Review.

Rating: 7/10 (29 March 2016)

The revelation of Superman to human beings for the first time brings hope but mainly a lot of questions: can a invincible-looking being be the Savior of mankind or will his apparent omnipotence mark its end? For an helpless Bruce Wayne who witnesses Superman's dangerousness in front of the deaths of his employees, the only solution is trying to stop the alien threat even if this means to challenge God.
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is not the masterpiece nor the garbage, people want to believe so much. It's a good superhero movie with very original visual ideas and a story that goes beyond the classic fistfights of the genre but that gets lost in the vastness of the original comic books material and in a clumsy editing (maybe due to unfortunate scene cuts that make some points less fluent).
The most interesting parts are the ones related to the two main characters: the dream sequences and the anguish that now more than ever afflict Bruce Wayne are represented with a visual form that almost tends to poetry as well as the imposingness and the fear that Superman communicates to the population beneath him. The major issues can be found in the second part of the movie: a lack of drama in some crucial points as the Congress explosion and the resolution of the conflict between the two heroes (although I found the idea of the acknowledgment of Superman as a "human being" in the eyes of Batman quite brilliant and touching); the forced connections with future DC movies that slow down the rhythm and the final enemy that seems very rushed, poor handled and unrelated to the rest of the movie.
So, I wanted to love this movie, instead I can only like it. What a missed opportunity.
7.5/10