"All that is powerful can't be good"

Rating: 5/10 (26 March 2016)

Proceed with caution.
"All that is powerful can't be good. And all that is good can't be powerful". Deep. Dark. A logical paradox. Impressed? So was I...but not for long. What started off as a promise of a big bang ends with fluttering flare put out by an incoherent and weak plot. It's Batman Vs Superman. But what we get is a rouge Batman and a distracted Superman settling their petty squabbles with a brief fist fight that ends before it even starts.
Without any comparison to the standards set by The Dark Knight - a dark and gritty take of a hero battling his own demons to outwit another demon, Batman Vs Superman plays upon the concept of dark and gritty excessively that the plot crumbles in its own weight and gets lost. You get disconnected as an audience. A superhero movie with great potential turns out to be a big emotional and psychological noise.
Batman has a purpose. He knows what he is doing. He doesn't have pretentious thoughts or notion about anyone. He is smart. He is meticulous. But here we see a sloppy batman, haunted by nightmares, whose motive to start a vengeance against Superman makes no sense at all.
And Superman, well let's not go there. How his will can be broken so easily is beyond me. And Doomsday? Felt more like a finale from a Power Ranger movie.
Henry Cavil is as charming as ever. A perfect Superman. Ben Affleck's chest had more expression than his face. But then again, an aging batman can't be the excuse, or can it?
Yes the effects were good. Yes the cinematography blended in with the actions like poetry, were good. But that is all you are going to get. After waiting for 3 years, a movie that promised to leave you wanting for more ends up in a sad afterthought, "that's it?" Maybe the movie is right after all...
"All that is powerful can't be good. And all that are good can't be powerful".