Who thinks up this rubbish!!!

Rating: 1/10 (26 March 2016)

My whole family went to see this - 5 of us. My wife walked out after an hour, the rest of us stayed and we all thought it was pretty dreadful. The film's title is misleading: it's not really Batman V Superman. It's Lex Luther / Doomsday (a monster borne from a large plastic bag and VERY angry) vs Batman, Superman and Wonderwoman. The story is badly told, I didn't really get why Batman was so against Superman, except that he'd destroyed his building (but he did that saving the Earth I think in MoS) and after all the arguing and just as Batman was about to kill Superman, they suddenly became buddies because their Mums had the same first name ... eh? really? Jesse Eisenberg plays Lex Luther and is just really annoying, and unintentionally gave me the one scene that made me laugh when he was in jail at the end and talking about bells ringing and then the scene fades with him going 'ding ding ding ... ding ding ding ...'. He's clearly not fit to be CEO of LexCorp so why haven't the board thrown him out :-)?. This is 150 minutes of completely humourless dross. The big battle at the end, was just too much - too many crashes, bangs, electrical storms, fire, destruction etc .. I couldn't see what was going on - except Doomsday was even angrier. Henry Cavill ... usual Superman performance - a little bit like he was in U.N.C.L.E, but Ben Affleck, who was so good in Argo, must be wondering why on earth he did this film. Anyway the final 30 minutes is the big fight during which Superman sacrifices himself killing Doomsday with a spear made of Kryptonite, so not only does it kill Doomsday it also fatally weakens Superman allowing Doomsday to deal a fatal blow. Superman is dead ... we see everyone crying (he's dead) , we see the funeral (he's dead) we see more unhappy people (he's dead), we see his coffin (he's dead) then in the last shot we see Lois Lane drop some earth on his coffin in the grave (he's dead) and then the soil moves - what a surprise!!! HE'S NOT DEAD!!! I suppose Doomsday isn't dead either. Quite liked the Dark Knight Rises, quite liked Man of Steel. Hated this.