Great perspective on classic heroes; comic book fans will appreciate

Rating: 7/10 (4 April 2016)

Despite all of the bad critic reviews (many are theorizing that these are coming from critics who have been paid off by Disney/Marvel), I really enjoyed this film. Zack Snyder and all the writers clearly read their sources and did their research. This was obviously a comic book movie, and to me, was obviously inspired by Frank Miller's work as well as some others. I am very anxious to see how Snyder plays out the rest of the Justice League members' stories and what character twists they will have. Ben Affleck plays a Bruce Wayne that is part his own and part Frank Miller's Bruce Wayne, but definitely plays Frank Miller's Batman. I thought that Henry Cavill's performance in this film was even better than his in Man of Steel. We get to see many sides of both Clark Kent and Superman, for better and for worse. The best performance of the film, however, was that of Jesse Eisenberg. Eisenberg plays the classic Superman villain Lex Luthor, but puts a new twist on the character. Luthor is usually a well respected business man who knows how to play the game of politics to his favor. While Eisenberg's Luthor is a respected business man, he also seems to be teetering on the edge of insanity; almost a cocktail of 3 parts Luthor, and 1 part Joker. Regardless of whether or not this was intentional, the cocktail definitely packs an impressive punch.