Big, Clumsy Mess

Rating: 5/10 (25 March 2016)

Man of Steel knew what it was, and it stuck to that vision. Plenty of people disliked it. I happen to have really enjoyed the Superman reboot, but I cannot say the same about this one. If ever a film has been more ambitious than capable, it is BvS, which is packed to the brim with characters, ideas and plot lines, but doesn't juggle them very well at all. This is like a worse version of Avengers: Age of Ultron, a film that should have been great collapsing under its own weight.
BvS is klutzy to the extreme, which is a shame considering many of the individual pieces being good. I appreciate darker superhero stories, but this one is just a slog, way too long and surprisingly boring. It's not well-put-together like the Nolan films were (for the most part), nor is it fun like some of the wackier takes of the past. Big fail, in my book. WB needs to clean house, creatively, starting with Snyder.