Batman v Superman Dawn of Disappointment

Rating: 5/10 (19 April 2016)

Seeing the movie twice I can gather enough thought to sum up how I felt about this movie. Back when the movie was announced I started building up big expectations, given the fact that Batman is among if not my favorite comic book character. I was excited to see Ben Affleck portray this great character and surprisingly... Ben Affleck as Batman was the only really good thing in this movie. It's like a spark of light in the darkness. I don't even know where to start but Batman v Superman fails in almost every aspect a movie could. Script, editing, direction, sound editing, some camera work and the list goes on. While some of the action scenes deliver there are some other that go exactly the opposite. I cannot say how disappointed I was by the Batman vs Superman part of this film. Even worse, in the script which was, certainly a total mess, there are good things to be seen here and there, ideas that just fade out in this overlong, two hours and a half mess. The tone of the movie is just overall wrong and becomes stale after a while, the lack of contrast and repeated camera-work OCDs of mr. Snyder driving the viewer away from this world even further. Another problem, that we have seen constantly in recent years in products like The Amazing Spiderman 2 and Avengers Age of Ultron, the movie takes way too much time to set up future films and also does it in a very cheap, dull and shockingly dumb way transforming about half of this movie into a big budget bad edited trailer for Justice League. It is not a disaster but it is a mediocre film at best which is sad for a title like this. 5/10 just thanks to Ben Affleck's Batman, some of the cinematography which is already a trademark for Snyder and some of the soundtrack. I have to say I am really excited for the solo Batman movie directed and written by Ben Affleck but I'm anything but intrigued by the upcoming Justice League movies.