Better Than Expected but too Predictable!

Rating: 7/10 (19 November 2017)

I went to see this movie with the hopes for the best but expecting the worse. The acting was great but it bothered me that Superman's face seemed dirty for some reason. I found out that the actor had a mustache and it was erased by CGI in a terrible way! Not sure why they didn't just have him shave it off for a multi-million dollar movie! The build up and back story for Aqua Man, Flash and the Cyborg dude was weak and really made no sense as to why they were needed. The plot seemed to be a recycled washed up one from the Marvel Power Cube concept! I didn't have and sense of doom in this movie and, once again, the world is at stake. I really don't know how to fix these movies but I think the Genre needs to be done in a darker way and more character development. The Afleck Batman is very unconvincing to me and they need a more agile actor to play him. The battle between the movie public and the comic geeks rages on in these flicks making the movie kinda vanilla. They should have also used a real person to play the antagonist instead of a cartoon character. I have been a Superman fan all my life and still feel they aren't doing him justice in the way they portray him. The flying sequences need to be slowed down and done with wires instead of DARNED CGI all the time. Wonder Woman stole this movie and could have beaten all of the foes by herself. There is no cleverness in the script and there should have been more grounding to the story. The stand out sequence was the Amazon battle which seemed to belong to a better movie which was usurped by a committee of executives just filling in the blanks. SPOILER ALERT!! The resurrection of Superman was too fast and could have been more climactic by letting the confusion stage last longer and letting him save the crew near the end of their rope. I wish the world doom theme would be changed to something more digestible. Maybe the superhero genre is dying after almost 30 years! I hope this movie makes a lot of money and allows them to make another with lessons they've learned from this tepid movie. lastly, if I could write a script for one of these movies I would use the "less is more" rule. Bring down the action a notch, bring up the IQ of the movie and have a great crescendo in the end. have a few human villains involved and make the maguffin something different beside ultimate power cubes. This movie was watchable and somewhat entertaining but action without a proper plot is a waste of time. The race between Flash and Superman was also childish with failed humor and Lex Luthor is too comical to be feared. They should have added Super Girl, Green Lantern and few others in a small way then kick the butt of a clever formidable villain in cahoots with the Joker or some other human villain. To me the last great superhero movie was Watchmen!