Watchable, Unoriginal Obomination

Rating: 5/10 (26 August 2018)

This movie is very watchable film. If you turn off your brain, it's an excellent film. If you are someone who cares what enters your brain, watch out. Sorry, but anyone who gives this movie a rating of more than 6 does not deserve access to your consciousness. Set aside the blatant rip off of other DC characters that is hidden in plain site. Batman should file suit in Gotham small claims court. The problem with this film, as in many bad movies, is not just the bad acting and the cringe-worthy romance but the culmination or ending. The smartest man in the world supposedly has concocted one of the most needlessly complex (if he truly were smart) and ultimately ridiculous plans to ....SPOILER ALERT ... "save" the world not conquer or destroy it (though he does a lot of that too.) And the godlike superhero in the film...without whom the plot would not be even possible..SPOILER alert murders the righteous "superhero" at the end but lets the mass murder go unpunished...why? BECAUSE he agrees the his Ends justify the Means goal. We're supposed to believe that if he wipes out all of the major superpower cities then Russia and USA will become allies...but only if the god character makes them think he's always watching them. ... Ayn Rand even gets a shout out. ... We're also supposed to believe that without war or the possibility of war there is automatically no anger, strife, corruption, crime or antagonism among countries or within countries...thus making journalism unnecessary. Bottom line this movie is insulting to anyone who can think beyond their popcorn.