Satisfying and loyal to comic books

Rating: 10/10 (23 March 2016)

Honestly I was scared a little before going in Batman v Superman after seeing some negative reviews, but leaving the theatre I was more than happy with what I saw. The movie was pretty dang awesome, consistent with what Man of Steel set up for this world, but still delivers a lot of fresh things to the table. The directing was great, gives you a very poetic overall tone that I really like, and the actions just blew my mind away. Zack Snyder knows exactly what he was doing and he nailed it with this one, although there were some cuts that were kind of jumped, but not severe enough to make the movie bad. I love that the movie brought in a lot of the things that are straight out of the comic books (plural), really loyal to the source material. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time because the pace and the story was really engaging and intense, really exciting to watch, but still gave me a few moments of shedding tears. Ben Affleck and Gal Gadot were both perfect casting, especially Batfleck, best movie Batman ever, super close to comics and super badass, loved the Batvoice, loved the suit, loved the fight scenes. Lex was really good and convincing. Overall, it's a really great movie, overall entertaining, satisfying, exciting, and great sense of cinematic aesthetic, a good event-like story to set up the DC Universe. It is not however a perfect movie, there were a few things that I didn't like, like the jump cuts and a few spoilery things I wouldn't mention. It's not the best movie ever, but still raises a few really relatable real world issues that resonant to us, which I think is the more important thing. It's very different to Man of Steel, but has the same tone and in the same Universe, so if you disliked MoS, you'll dislike this, but if you Loved MoS, this will be super awesome. I gave Man of Steel 8.5/10 three years ago, I'm gonna give Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice the same score.