All Hype and No Trousers

Rating: 5/10 (12 April 2016)

A long, long time ago (when I was growing up) a Superhero movie was an event, a blockbuster - much anticipated and even longer remembered.
I watched this movie about 2 weeks ago and remember very little except my disappoint, through all of it, and my boredom through most of it.
Other people have ably written about the numerous problems in the movie however I can forgive any problem in any movie if it entertains on some level commensurate with its status. For me if a film engages with it's characters, or direction, or action, or plot etc... then it can be a entertaining experience. For myself watching movies is not an intellectual experience it is an emotional experience were the ultimate sin a movie to commit is me actually being forced out of the movie immersion and to start realising I am actually "watching" a movie, a movie that had dis-connected me from it's world.
This is definitely one of those movies.... A lot of boring parts, the character motivations I just didn't buy.... Seems to be a lot of hubris from those involved... The director requesting that critics don't the reveal the (twist?) ending... Such a crap ending both un-believable and ultimately so predictable, I would it think it would be both shame and embarrassment that would be better grounds for drawing a veil over such an ending.
This is a movie with delusions of grandeur.... This is no 'Superman'... This is no 'The Dark Knight'.... It's both elephantine and tortoiselike, jumbled and mumbled, miscast and misconceived...
I was going to give it a 6 but thinking about it again and how it still makes me feel I will be generous and give it a 5 as it was one of the only 2 or 3 movies I thought about walking out of half way through...
Pick over the bones of it how you like, you might find enough meat there for a paupers dinner but for those who give this more than 7 stars are seriously deficient in movie-experience, critical perspective or basic mathematics...
I apologise for all grammar and spelling mistakes. English is my first language.
PeterO