Unbalanced effort at combining two superhero giants

Rating: 3/10 (3 July 2016)

First off, I share no allegiance to Marvel movies or DC movies. I am simply a movie fan, but you have to state that since many folks on this site appear to think that this film is hated out of spite. But the problems in this movie are glaring and plentiful. As a kid you could show me a film with some explosive action and I would love it, but as an adult I need to be invested in the story first to care about the action. This film fails to do that, but instead of it just being packed with action to make up for that fact, it is full of spliced together character development. The story jumps around without explanations and a once intelligent Bruce Wayne turns into a revenge thirsty thug. I agree with Snyder on the aspect of superheroes killing folks to give them more depth, however I don't think you should execute that idea by having Batman shooting guns at people. Secondly Jesse Eisenberg, he is a talented actor but he was not right for this movie. Upon seeing the first trailers I thought he was out of place, but I also thought that maybe Snyder had a trick up his sleeve and Eisenberg would blow me away. There is no trick up the sleeve, he was just as terrible for this role as he first appeared to be. The redeeming quality of this movie ends up being Wonder Woman, out of all the faults this movie contains, Snyder handled her introduction perfectly. Some of the action is well done, other times it disintegrates into CGI almost to the point of looking cartoonish. Overall this film failed, I wanted it to work so bad but it was a mess. If they continue to make new Batman movies I just hope they remove Snyder from the project.