Average at best

Rating: 1/10 (22 March 2020)

A ten year old could honestly write a better script. Ben Affleck is a terrific Batman and Zack Snyder and his writers failed him in this and in Justice League. But make no mistake, this is a much better film that JL. There are some scenes that are great and make me wish the film was consistently great. The "Versus" part, the fight alone begins epic but quickly dissolves and disappoints. I guess you can say these folks really don't care about fan pleasing because the fight is so short, I mean c'mom! Give the people what they want! An epic fight, not some warehouse brawl we get in every other action flick. It could have been infinitely better. Jesse Eisenberg was interesting. Not sure if that means good. We've never seen a Lex Luther quite like him that's for sure. The film just feels sloppy but somehow withholding on some awesome potential. Armored Batman is cool as hell! The dream sequence was bad ass! "Do you bleed?" Is an epic line. But what good is it when everything else doesn't match these epic scenes, am I supposed to sit through the bad parts to see the little bit of good? I suppose that's what YouTube is for. But Batman V Superman was a long awaited, epic event and just did not deliver. I left the theater feeling cheated but somehow a little confused because I did enjoy what actually worked. That being said, with so many films hitting the mark on everything, it's really no excuse.