A case study of how talentless directors can mess up great potential

Rating: 4/10 (10 May 2018)

Batman V Superman is a case study example of how bad directors will always spoil a movie.
10 years ago i remember seeing 300 in a theatre and hating it. It was a bad film (maybe a good music video) and yet Snyder kept on getting deals to make some of the most ambitious movies. Other than Watchmen his films have been consistent rubbish. Man of Steel was a good indicator of how he would make a mess of something as large as the Justice League.
In a movie where there are characters to be introduced, Justice League to be set up, an ultimate stand off to defined, Snyder wastes time on gimmicky plot devices like dream sequences, mumbled dialogues with dead parents, half baked story plots, and completely incoherent jump cut action!!
There was a storyline, there were some good characters, Ben Affleck is actually good as Batman but the editing, the direction and some rank bad dialogues make this film unwatchable. For example you understand why Batman hates Superman but why does Superman have an issue with Batman is incomprehensible. Jesse Einsenberg is annoying as Lex Luthor.
As the viral video which shows Sad Ben Affleck reflecting on how bad this film is depicts perfectly, this one takes special effort to botch up. Esp. Kevin Feige's Marvel comics world has brilliantly defined how to cram and pace narratives with multiple characters. Even Marvel's smaller entries like Ant Man and Deadpool have smashed records (Critical and commercial)
Yet Zack Snyder seems to have learnt nothing about how the superhero genre has evolved. As a critic put it "The film serves as a metaphor for its own aspirations. The corporations that produce movies like this one, and the ambitious hacks who sign up to make them, have no evident motive beyond their own aggrandizement"
There should be a fanboy movement to have Nolan or Jenkins direct the rest of the DC world otherwise this franchise is heading nowhere.
There is a hard to define word that Indians call a big budgeted over hyped movie that is crap - 'Bundal'. Well, 'Bundal' just found its definition.