Dull and boring

Rating: 3/10 (5 January 2017)

I enjoyed Man of Steel however felt cautious about this film and rightly so. This film is not compelling in the slightest and any hope I had early on about this film quickly evaporated. It is dull and boring and seemingly takes forever to get going only to disappoint with the titular smack down and then chug along to a laughable climax against the cave troll from lord of the rings. Ben Affleck is great as Bruce but his Batman is way to violent and miles away from the character I've grown to love. Henry Cavill gets nothing to do except brood and make constipated faces and poor Amy Adams is saddled with a subplot that I honestly struggled to care about in an attempt to make her character relevant. Gal Gadot however is great as Wonder Woman but has no reason to be there except to set up Justice League. In fact, that seems to be the only thing the film wants to do which causes the story to suffer. Its a shame as they also wasted Doomsday and the death of Superman which would have been amazing if it was saved for a solo movie.