1st half terrible, but 2nd half makes up for it and more

Rating: 7/10 (25 March 2016)

Hillary's Movie Review Time: Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice OK, the first half of this movie gets 1 star. Terrible. The second half, however gets 10 stars! So? I guess I'll give it 7 to kind of average the two, skewed because the second half was THAT good. The first half is jumbled, it makes no sense. The dream sequences are too long and confusing. They are fighting over who deserves to be the hero? I guess? That's stupid. Both of these characters have spent way too much time in every movie they've ever made being treated like they were a threat when they're just trying to help people to accuse the other of that EXACT SAME THING. Stupid stupid. OK, moving on. I heard bad things about Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor. I don't get it, I thought he was great and probably the only interesting character for the first half of the movie. I thought Ben Affleck was fine as Batman. His "Batman voice" was weird, as they all are to me (except Lego Batman - he's PERFECT) but not as distracting as some. For some reason I was OK with him taking over as Batman, but offended to my core about the imposter playing Alfred. Can't explain that one! (He did fine.) I'm not a Superman person, as far as I'm concerned he could've been played by a cardboard cutout or just been totally CGI (actually a terrible idea) but he won me over by the end. And he's pretty. Now to the awesome stuff. The batmobile was awesome! I have a lady crush on Wonder Woman, she was probably my favorite part of the whole movie. I liked how in this one the women saved the men as much as the men saved the women. I even said "NOICE!" one time (in my Andy Samberg voice). So, if you can drag yourself through the first part of the movie, the second is well worth it in my opinion, it even has a little humor, FINALLY, and really sets up the Justice League idea well and definitely has me ready to see the next one...