Sound and Fury signifying little

Rating: 5/10 (20 April 2016)

'Batman v Superman' has an air of arrogance about it. The filmmakers seemed so confident that their "God versus Man" conceit was so riveting that they filled a good two hours of screen time with overwrought apocalyptic imagery and people shouting about Superman being a God or not being a God, and pretty much forgot about any other element that moviegoers actually enjoy. The tone is unrelentingly bleak. None of the scenes have any cinematic energy, whether in dialogue or in plot driving, and there is a dearth of interesting set pieces which you would expect at a bare minimum in this type of film. The result is a numbing, frustrating wait until the fairly anti-climactic battle promised in the title.