Superman 2: Starring Batman and Wonder Woman

Rating: 1/10 (8 August 2016)

I'm more Marvel than DC when it comes to movies. However I do like watching DC's animated TV shows as a kid and I don't really hate DC. The only DC comics movie that I enjoy was 'The Dark Knight' as it has a dark story but not droopy story with a good villain with some motivation and a good story structure. Something that this movie failed to do from start to finish.
The bad things is Jesse Eisenberg portraying as Lex Luthor who is a mastermind and evil business man who hates Superman because he always foiled his plans whereas Luthor in this movie had no rhyme or reason to hate Superman and get his revenge. Plus how the way he portrayed the character was more crazy like the joker rather than evil and cold hearted and he gets very annoying in the end. Another problem is the forced and poor build up of Wonder Woman, she was just...there. Her character was nothing more than a random woman that chats with Bruce Wayne. We never see what she can do nor do we see her actually doing anything at all before joining the two superheroes in the final battle. If this is the way to build up for the Justice League or her own movie, they should've done it after the credits. That's how Marvel pulled it off so well when they are hyping up for their next movie like 'The Avengers'.
Another big problem is the reason why Batman and Superman hate each other. The reason was so vague that it doesn't really make their rivalry anywhere interesting. It was just two big names fighting. I'm not a comic book purist but the comic book did a much better job for the rivalry between the two when it comes to the differences for justice and that could at least make them more interesting and more dramatic, in fact 'Captain America: Civil War' did that better when it comes to rivalry between Iron Man and Captain America. My god even the CollegeHumour video of the two has a much more better reason for them to hate each other, even if it's stupid. Plus the movie focused more on Super man rather than Batman to be honest.
I also hate the total hypocrisy of Metropolis people. At first they hate Superman thinking that he caused major catastrophe, the 'Superheroes are bad' cliché that even The Incredibles did as well, yet after he died people were somehow mourning for him. We never see the townspeople developed to like him at all. Marvel did the whole cliché. But you don't see the townspeople or the people of earth just somehow liking the Avengers at the end after they defeated a villain as there are some people who hate them still for killing and hurting other people.
Probably the worst thing of this movie is Superman's death. This is to hype up the 'Justice League' movie and so...what is the point of his death when he's going to come back anyway? They did it better in 'The Dark Knight Rises', *gasp* I'm comparing a DC movie not Marvel? How the way they deal with Batman's death was at least good with him faking his own death in order to finish his duties as Batman and live a normal life. Here Superman is dead, his body is shown dead and that's it and with that it is pointless now with the announcement of Justice League. Yes Superman is a strong (Mary-Sue) character but his death is just pointless. You could just say that he's leaving to think of what he can do to bring more justice to the world or something. Plus his 'resurrection' was poorly done as well. If you have people who aren't comic book fans then they're not going to get it.
However I did hear from a friend who's a comic book fan that its the sun that's resurrecting him and since that makes total sense now and that DC is only pandering to the fans and not the wider public about this, it makes this character even worse.
I heard that the director's cut is more better than what was seen in the cinema, and after reading up about because I can't be bothered going through this trash again, I don't think it would be any better. But that's also a problem towards Warner Bros. since the DC is praised by fans it makes me realise, why? Why release the theatrical cut rather than the DC version as originally intended? I think it's stupid that they did this but despite that I don't think 30min of additional footage would make the movie even better.
The effects for the final fight scene was over the top and bland to look at and Ben Aflex to me was a terrible choice as he looks like a grump that doesn't want to play Batman. There are so many problems that this movie had suffered with but if you want to see two famous heroes fighting then this movie is for you. But just to let everyone know...I'm not 'paid' by Disney, despite that claim is absolutely stupid and DC fanboys shouldn't be making petitions to close down websites like Rotten Tomatoes period because they don't like hearing negative reviews. Marvel did their movies much better because they balance out the comedy and drama so well and they have enjoyable characters too.
This movie is horrendous and not a worthy watch at all. The directing is bad, characters are bad, the motivation for two main characters is very weak, the story is everywhere and it feels like they were cashing out on Marvel/Disney success.