Unimaginative series of explosions

Rating: 5/10 (2 April 2016)

Hard to figure out what exactly made this two and half hour theatrical experience a waste of time. Was it the terrible performance of Jesse Eisenberg? Was it the lack of imagination characterizing the scenario? Was it the completely useless intervention of Wonder woman? Was it the extra-ugly, extra-bad, stinky breathed baddie that came out of nowhere at the very end of the movie? Was it the "let's kill superman, but in the last 0.1 second hint at his revival" ? Oh wait I've just figured it out. The whole film is particularly uncreative, and that's all you could expect from a movie that has for basis "let's make superman and batman fight each other". I am not saying Jesse Eisenberg is a bad actor, on the other hand I think he is an excellent one and has proved it repeatedly, but the role itself was totally inappropriate. An obvious attempt at walking in Heath Ledger's footsteps (from TDK), except it seemed awfully out of place: the Joker and Lex Luthor have almost nothing in common. Nevertheless Ben Affleck does a pretty good Batman, and performances from Gal Gadot and Henry Cavill were satisfying. The entire cast did a pretty great job really. At the end of the day I would say this was slightly better than Man of Steel, but definitely not by much.