The Tin Man of Bat meets Mr. Kryptonian Steel... and then some.

Rating: 4/10 (9 July 2016)

**** May contain strong spoilers ****
This is a review made by StoneDraim... and that means that if you want to read a probably different kind of review, keep reading....
This is my personal experience, my personal point of view/perspective and my personal opinion... and my opinion is just one of like 7 billions in this world.
And....right to it: Seems like Christopher Nolan has taken the success from let us say Batman and a little flushed the experience gathered down the toilet, allowing himself to be executive producer for "Batman v Superman". They try to just ride the wave and lean on the fact that the way of making movies has gotten them to where they all is today. Sadly, that comes through in Batman V Superman. Same thing over again. (If Christopher Nolan would have directed and produced this one, I am confident that the film would have been greater.)
And even some little touches of lousy dialogue and bad acting and directing. This made me in fact say out loud: "What!? In a "block buster" movie!?" And why....why....WHY (!!?) did they choose Jesse Eisenberg to jump into the cast? Jesse is a really fine actor. It is just that the neurotic sense that Mr. Eisenberg often portrays should fit excellent in another film. Here, it gives the whole experience a naive and silly (ridiculous?) enhancing which push the total production down the rate. I understand the concept of taking something old and make it fresh with new actors to give something new and bring another (and maybe younger) audience. And with that said... Ben Affleck as Batman? Henry Cavill as Superman....AGAIN? They try to make Ben Afflecks Batman move and fight in the same solid and heavy manner that Christian Bales Batman did... and it is just terrible. One scene where Batman is surrounded by soldiers is plain and simple bad. I could see several things in the fighting that were acted and several things that just screamed "GIVE ME MY Christian BALE!". Some scenes has a lot of too enhanced both acting and surroundings to convey "the drama of the moment"... it even feels that the music and things is too far out that the story is gasping for air.... overacting and a theatrical soundtrack creating a "fake sense" of what Zack Znyder and the rest really wanted to produce. (An example of this is 1 hour and 55 minutes into the movie, where Mr. Luthor confronts Lois Lane on top of a skyscraper and Superman later talks to Mr. Luthor.)
Batman has gone from fabric tights (tv-series) to some kind of modern leather tights of kevlar (Batman- trilogy)... and all that were fine. And now.... a kind of clumsy tin as armour. Maybe they meant it to be "The Two Men Of Steel", and had to settle with one man of steel and one bat in armour...
Some action scenes contains so much over the edge things that it just feels like fiction. In the old Batman (Christopher Nolan) and Superman movies there always were a great nuance of authentic "realism". Here... they blend it too far and swept away my entertainment a lot.
An obvious and typical bad writing and script example; Batman and Superman are enemies to each other and tries to kill one another. By one word ("Martha") everything is switched, and just minutes later Batman says to Martha; "I am a friend of your son." Friend? Really? Already? Minutes before deadly enemies and all of a sudden they went so far in the relationship that they are friends??
In the end, this motion picture turns into a parody of Marvel. Explosions, monsters, weapons... devastation and destruction. It almost feels like the film were given a poor team as for the production. They tried (or did they?)... and failed.
Now I am criticizing in a negative way. And I am trying to find solid entertainment here. And.... no. All I find is a polished production on terms of cinematography, sound, visuals and editing. Otherwise...this was a disappointment.... a huge one.
I love the Batman-trilogy. And I loved Christoffer Reeve and Brandon Routh as Superman. Zack Znyder just gave me a rugged picture of my superheroes....and that in a negative way. What if Christopher Nolan (executive producer) were given the resonsibility of directing and producing this one....?
Over to the movie as a product: - The production : Great production! Good sound, good effects and good visuals. A negative and destructive thins about the production; they tried to to copy Mr. Nolans productions with the typical "Nolan Dark Theme". - The actors : Well.... they do what they are supposed to do... almost all the time. - Entertainment : No, in all. Some moments here and there to get a little cinema itch from...that is all. - Age : 15
4,4 out of 10. (The final rate is based most on my own entertainment of the movie. Short elucidation of the rating: 5 Approved. 4 Failed. Lacking in character.)