Good but not Super

Rating: 7/10 (28 March 2016)

This movie starts with seeing Bruces parents murdered again, which lengthens an already cramped movie. I feel as though it is here mainly to please comic book fans with some camera shots identical to the comics. I personally feel this isn't needed and the film should start with Bruce Wayne in Metropolis during the Superman vs Zod fight that took place in Man of Steel. This would have made the film ten minutes shorter and jumped straight into some of the best action in the film. We are then reintroduced to Superman who i would have thought become against killing after the death of Zod, nope. He straight up kills a guy who has Lois hostage. Now i quite enjoyed that he killed. I mean how can someone be so powerful and not kill. It fits in nicely with the darkness of the DC universe and adds a realistic touch. Over all this film started strongly with motives for both characters, Batman not trusting Superman for killing thousands in metropolis and feels superman should be held responsible and Superman not enjoying the fact Batman feels that he is above the law. Both are good motives for a Batman vs Superman movie. There is also the political section in this film with the population divided between supporting superman and going against him. This gave Superman problems and caused him confusion. "why am i helping people if they don't like me?" is what he is thinking. Great this is humanising the character. However after this the movie starts to lose track of whats going on. Lex is introduced and i think completely wrong casting choice. They should have gone for a more aged, darker actor who can be evil almost naturally. Bryan Cranston would be my personal opinion and was linked to the role originally. Jesse Eisenberg who i spent more time laughing at, it reminded me of the Riddler from one of the older batman films. Lex did have a good motive "we need a weapon in case Superman turns evil" fair enough, superman can destroy humanity so it makes sense to have a weapon in preparation. This is only mentioned once and then his motives just go out of the window. This is how simple the plot should have been. Instead We have Wonder Woman who feels forced, although she is played well, is she really necessary for this film, and the its the same for doomsday. Were these characters needed for the plot. Instead we get some over the top Lex Luthor plan that could have easily failed by Batman not finding out about kryptonite, and then Lex Luthor black mails superman to fight batman, for fun? The final fights in this film is brilliantly choreographed and shot. It shows of Batman's tactical and superior hand to hand combat over a weakened superman. Again this was realistic to what it would be like. The one thing that annoyed me was how they became buddies. Their moms have the same name and all of sudden their best friends. NO! Let them both realises Lex is the biggest threat and then they team up to take him down. Instead of Doomsday give Lex his armoured kryptonite suit (maybe made from left over krypton armor) and take them both on. To me this would have been a simpler less cramped plot with better pacing. This was not a bad movie, it was good and the acting was amazing. Batman had Badass one liners, unfortunately given away in the trailers but still cool. It would have been nice for superman to have some cool one liners. Lois was given more of a plot than she needed and the dream sequences weren't needed and just extended the film. The cameos of other heroes could have been kept for an end of credits scene. But as movie this wasn't bad, but as BATMAN VS SUPERMAN it wasn't what it could have been.