Is she with you?.....

Rating: 7/10 (30 March 2016)

Fearing the actions of a god-like super hero will be left unchecked, Gotham City's own wronged vigilante takes on Metropolis's most revered, modern-day saviour.
This, while the world wrestles with what sort of hero it really needs.
With Batman and Superman at war with one another, a new threat quickly arises, in the form of Lex Luther, putting mankind in greater danger than it's ever known before.........
Everybody knows that this film should have been a comic book movie of biblical proportions, two of the most celebrated superheroes of all time, who when you think about it, kicked started this humongous sub genre that rules the box office thirty years before Tony Stark dominated everything 'comic book'.
But it isn't the epic feat you wanted, and nor is it the disaster that you'd expect.
What we have is a fun, if overlong film, introducing us to the new Batman, with the last hour being nothing more than an extended trailer for The Justice League movie that definitely won't be made by Snyder.
Affleck is surprisingly brilliant as Wayne/Batman, he is a really brooding entity throughout the film, and for once, here is a rationale for his gravelly voice. Why, he even gets his own Rocky like montage sequence when he prepares him for the big dook-a-roo.
Cavill however, fares less better. Superman has always had the potential to be portrayed as a bit of a wet blanket, after all, out of all the superheroes out there, he's the least cocky, one without a chip on his shoulder, and he rescues cats from trees. But he's still miles better than Routh.........and Eisenberg.
Eisenberg nearly kills the film, obviously trying to channel his Luthor to be a Joker type megalomaniac. Within a minute of him being in the film, you want Gene Hackman to come out of retirement and smack the taste out of his mouth. He is without a doubt the worst Superman villain this side of Nuclear Man.
The highlight of the film though is Gal Gadot. Her first scene as her as Wonder Woman with her theme playing is one of the best introductions to a superheroes in a long time, but it takes a hell of a while to get there.
He final third of the film is just one big fight, but unlike Man Of Steel, it's pretty exciting stuff, and not too dissimilar to the finale of Norton's The Incredible Hulk.
But the film is way too long, at least thirty minutes, and we could have done without another helping of Wayne's Parents getting killed (in 1981 no less), and all the slow motion scenes of shells hitting the floor.
And the film does feature the most bizarre dream sequence I've ever seen in a film, Batman in the desert with flying ants really took me away from the incoherent plot and made me audibly say 'what was that all about'.
But it's a lot of fun, and although it's not the film many wanted, it's good to finally see these two in a film together, but it's sadly not the Heat of Comic Book Movies, more Righteous Kill.
Add a wonderful cameo from Costner, and a career best performance from Chris Pine, it's nothing more than a fun, loud, bonkers action film that makes you realise why it wasn't released in the middle of the summer.........it would have died at the box office.