Dawn of the Bat

Rating: 9/10 (29 March 2016)

Although I prefer DC characters over other comics' brands, I was skeptical about this movie. Especially due to the quick way they would try to gain the lost battle against Marvel. Every now and then we were hearing about new forced additions to introduce before its time the Justice League.
Then came the choices of Gal Gadot, Jesse Eisenberg, Ezra Miller which was ruining already my excitement.
The movie having started, I liked the transition with the M.o.S. which seemed realistic as the Cloverfield movie. Ben Affleck, despite the previous protest of a number of fans for his choice, seemed immediately capable of lifting the weight of the whole movie, which he indeed did. Dark as Wayne, while so vengeful and identical to Arkham games' knight in the costume, it is a scandal not to have been considered earlier for the role.
Henry Cavill was luckily less loquacious and more substantial than in the Man from UNCLE, allowing Snyder to make a couple of artistic sequences that will be remembered.
Gal Gadot was a nice surprise. Despite her skinny model background, she filled well the Amazon's armor and her face and acting when in Diana Prince's shoes, was mysterious and beautiful as she should be.
All in all the movie had an easy but well narrated plot, with some short but often deep dialogue, and outstanding soundtrack outshining to my view the phantasmagorical but shallow teen targeting of Marvel's ways.
One less star for the bad choice of Jokerish Lex Luthor and the oblivion of Grunt Gastin and Stephen Amell.