Full of potential, but lost it at the end!

Rating: 6/10 (25 March 2016)

For many people myself included this movie ticked the box of 'one of the most anticipated movies of the year', and quite rightly so. The Dark Knight stands as a masterpiece of comic book movies, and although Man Of Steel was hit with a whole host of mixed reviews, I for one put it as the pinnacle of movies starring Superman, I am careful to say that in my opinion it is not a Superman film, in fact it is a Kal-El film, Superman exists for a single day.
Batman V Superman is another beast entirely, whenever I do a review whether it be written or spoken I make sure to note down four points â€“ Story, Cast, Score and Resonance. The story does not develop much past what is offered in the 3 Trailers released over the last 12 months, Bruce Wayne witnessed the destruction of Metropolis (Man Of Steel) and as such has declared Superman as the biggest threat to life on Earth. Clark Kent as a reporter believes the Brutality shown by Batman is out of control. With help from the scheming antagonist Lex Luther the two become entangled in the greatest gladiator fight in history. Well at least that is the plot to Batman V Superman, however this movie has another section, the 'Dawn of Justice' and this is where the story for me falls apart.
When we talk of the Cast we have to discuss the most controversial casting since Heath Ledger was masterfully cast as the Joker, that is Ben Affleck's casting as Bruce Wayne/Batman. This casting for me is the single greatest part of this movie, if I may be so bold I would say that Ben Affleck is my favourite Batman to date. Henry Cavill is a perfect Superman. Jesse Eisenberg is a really interesting and eccentric antagonist but not my ideal Lex Luther. Laurence Fishbourne is always great and that is where the compliments end. I would like to know who is responsible for the casting of Gal Gadot, yes she is a very beautiful woman and looks great as Wonder Woman but let's get straight to the point, Gal Gadot is not the greatest actress, she's wooden and inexperienced. It's almost offensive that they would give the leading female superhero to a model when there are countless phenomenal and beautiful actresses just in Hollywood alone. Going from one extreme to the other Amy Adams is a multiple Academy Award nominee who is placed in the movie simply to be saved, what a waste of talent.
The score to me is the soul of the movie, it should pull our emotional core along with the movie and its worth noting this score was composed by the great Hans Zimmer (Dark Knight, Inception) but for me the score was a little distracting, for the most part the score serves its purpose but as the story enters ridiculous unfortunately so does the score.
And then we get to Resonance, how I resonated with the movie, this is the most subjective and personal part of the review. I loved this movie for the first 90-110 minutes, I was onboard, I was excited to see Batman again on the big screen, the portrayal of Bruce Wayne was for me perfection, however when a movie with a dark tone, that screams this is as close to real life as possible, then takes a turn for the silly i'm out. When style is chosen over substance, when city's are destroyed like its made of Lego with no real consequence then I can only say that I am left bitterly disappointed.
But the movie isn't terrible, however without giving anything away the ending is cheap, it's as though they had not planned an ending, only an action scene. If however you want to watch to Goliath's fight, a big monster and an abrupt ending then you will thoroughly enjoy this movie.
I give this a 6.5/10, and if the movie had just stayed Batman V Superman my rating would likely have been an 8 or a 9/10!