Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Ultimate Edition)

***Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Ultimate Edition)*** is a 2016 movie that is a sequel to Man Of Steel and the director's cut of the theatrical version. It adds 30 extra minutes of extended footage that weren't present in the theatrical version. It was directed by Zack Snyder, written by Chris Terrio and David S. Goyer, and is the second installment of the DCEU.

The movie was released on Digital HD on June 28, 2016, and on Blu-ray on July 19, 2016. It was then remastered and re-released on 4K Ultra HD with IMAX footage on March 21st, 2021.

> The world only makes sense...if you force it to
>
> Batman

## Plot

> People hate what they don’t understand
>
> Martha Kent

It's been nearly two years since Superman's (Henry Cavill) colossal battle with Zod (Michael Shannon) devastated the city of Metropolis. The loss of life and collateral damage have left many feeling angry and helpless, including crime-fighting billionaire Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck). Convinced that Superman is now a threat to humanity, Batman embarks on a personal vendetta to end his reign on Earth, while the conniving Lex Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg) launches his own crusade against the Man of Steel.

> That's how it starts. The fever... the rage... the feeling of powerlessness that turns good men cruel.
>
> Alfred

## Good Qualities

1. It is a big improvement over the theatrical cut.
	* The editing is a big improvement.
		+ It adds more scenes to the movie that weren't shown in the theatrical cut.
			- Batman seeing a teacher leading a group of students through the streets during the Black Zero event from Man of Steel.
			- A brief shot of the gun being leveled at Martha Wayne's face.
			- In Nairomi, it confirms the man who was shot in the original version was Jimmy Olsen.
			- It also confirms Knyazev and his men murdered the warlord's men and the villagers, before they immolate their corpses with a flamethrower (which makes it look like they had been killed by Superman's heat vision, causing Superman to get framed for it.)
			- Inclusion of swearing. (This being an R-rated film.) An example would be when Lex Luthor visits Wallace Keefe, he says "What the fuck do you want?", whilst the F-word was omitted in the theatrical version.
			- In the theatrical cut, Doomsday went to jump at a helicopter to destroy it but misses, hitting the LexCorp Tower. Here in the Ultimate Edition, he successfully destroys it.
			- In The Ultimate Cut, It is clarified that Wallace Keefe's wheelchair is revealed to be lead-lined so that Superman couldn't see it during the Capitol Bombing.
			- Superman helping the survivors of the Washington D.C.'s Capitol building.
			- There was a scene where a Swat team infiltrate the Kryptonian Scout ship to find Lex Luthor being taught about the three Motherboxes by Steppenwolf. (Which was uploaded to youtube 3 days after the theatrical cut was released.)
			- In the original version, the newsman depicts that "a Bat brand in prison, essentially means death". Later in the movie, the man who was branded by Batman (Cesar Santos) was murdered in the prison by other inmates. This confirms that Batman was actually sending death sentences, which clarifies the motive for Superman's confrontation against Batman.
			- It adds in new characters
				* Jenet Klyburn
				* Adriana
			- Lois investigating Wallace's apartment and figuring out that the bomb in his wheelchair was planted.
			- In the africa scene, They show an alternate take of the CIA launching a drone to bomb the compound, but the drone was promptly destroyed by Superman when he arrived. As in the theatrical version, Superman's entrance just showed him arriving after Anatoli and his men got away.
2. A great soundtrack that was composed by Hans Zimmer and Tom Holkenborg (Junkie XL). Notable mentions would be "Beautiful Lie" which is the opening scene music, "The Red Capes Are Coming" which is Lex Luthor's theme, "This Is My World" which is a very emotional piece composed by Zimmer, and "Black And Blue" which is the Batman and Superman battle music.
3. For a 183 minute movie, It is really well paced.
4. Batman and Alfred have great chemistry, With them having great dialogue. allowing their characters to be nicely done. A Notable example would be:
	* *I don't deserve you Alfred.*
		+ *No sir you don't.*
5. Despite the overly dark and gloomy tone it had, with some of the characters being different from their comic counterpart, there are still great performances from Ben Affleck as Batman, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, Henry Cavill as Superman, and Jeremy Irons as Alfred Pennyworth (Agreeably better than Justice League.)
	* With some decents peformances from Amy Adams as Lois Lane, Laurence Fishburne as Perry White, Harry Lennix as General Swanwick, Diane Lane as Martha Kent and Holly Hunter as Senator Finch.
		+ Even though Jesse Eisenberg's lex luthor is a hit or miss, his upbeat peformance makes him an entertaining antagonist. He was still able to be a menacing threat despite his flaws. Even then, he still was able to succeeded in his goal to have superman killed. Well, until Zack Snyder's Justice League.
6. The opening scene is amazing.
7. Bruce Wayne's point of view in Metropollis during the Black Zero event is well made, which created his view on Superman.
8. Wonder Woman's entrance was simply amazing, accompanying with her theme "Is She Still With You?"
9. Outstanding visuals. despite having a overly dark scene setting.
10. Amazing sound design.
11. The action in the scenes are pretty good. Notable examples are:
	* The fight with Doomsday. The visuals in this fight are just eye-candy.
	* Batman fighting criminals to rescue Martha.
		+ It's also arguably the best Batman fight scene since Affleck's performance was energetic, flexible, and brutal, as opposed to other actors who portrayed Batman.
	* Batman's fight with Superman is also pretty good.
12. The Knightmare scene was also well made and excellent.
13. Superman's funeral is very emotional.
	* Considering that the city rejected and hated him. He willingly sacrifices his life to save the city.
14. The cinematography is very good.
15. They're are some pretty good quotes/lines:
	* ***Men With Power Obey Neither Policy Nor Principle, Miss Lane. No One Is Different. No One Is Neutral.***
	* ***How Do We Determine What’s Good? In A Democracy, Good Is A Conversation, Not A Unilateral Decision.***
	* ***You Were Never A God. You Were Never Even A Man.***
	* ***But, the bell's already been rung... and they've heard it. Out in the dark, among the stars... Ding-dong, the god is dead. But a bell cannot be un-rung! He's hungry. He's found us. And he's coming!***
	* ***Tell me. Do you bleed? You will.***
	* ***Men are still good. We fight, we kill, we betray one another, but we can rebuild. We can do better. We will. We have to.***
	* ***The world has been so caught up with what Superman can do, that no one has asked what he should do.***
	* ***We’re criminals, Alfred. We’ve always been criminals, nothing’s changed.***
	* ***Twenty years in Gotham, Alfred. We’ve seen what promises are worth. How many good guys are left. How many stay that way.***
	* ***Criminals are like weeds, Alfred. Pull one up, another grows in its place.***
	* ***Next time they shine your light in the sky, don’t go to it. The Bat is dead. Bury it. Consider this mercy.***
	* ***I'm older now than my father ever was. This may be the only thing I do that matters.***
	* ***This is my world. You are my world.***
	* ***I believe you.***
	* ***So falls the house of Wayne.***
	* ***Good Luck For One Is Always His Brother’s Misfortune. But All Accounts Are Balanced In The End.***
	* ***Do You Know The Oldest Lie In America, Senator? It’s That Power Can Be Innocent.***
	* ***Man made a world where standing together is impossible.***
	* ***True what they say of little boys … born without the inclination to share.***
	* ***If man won't kill God, the Devil will do it!***
16. The original Steppenwolf with the Motherboxes appears during the part when Lex Luthor turns Zod's corpse into Doomsday. (He finally makes a proper appearance in Zack Snyder's Justice League after being drastically altered by director Joss Whedon in Justice League.)
17. Batman sending Lex Luthor to Arkham Asylum. (Affleck's acting in this scene was simply amazing.)

## Bad Qualities

1. The "Martha" scene. While given the understanding that both Bruce and Clark's mother share the same name, it could've been executed better, as it felt too quick and forced.
	* Including Terrible dialogue, particularly when Batman is shouting "***WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME?!***" after Superman mentions Martha
2. While the funeral scene was good and emotional, it can drag on for a while.
3. Some actors were dull, boring, or just downright bad. Notable examplesː
	* Callan Mulvey
	* Hugh Maguire
	* Wunmi Mosaku
	* Scoot McNairy.
		+ Him being a pretty interesting character. He's hellbent on getting revenge on Superman, After that battle of metropolis that left thousands of people dead. his character only has a few lines and he barely gets any time to develop. Whenever he appears he looks like angry and miserable.
	* And most notably...Jesse Eisenberg.
		+ The problem with his character is that he mostly doesn't act like lex luthor at all.
			- As acts more like the Joker or the Riddler more than Lex luthor.
		+ The scene with the Jolly Rancher candy is an infamous moment from Jesse Eisenberg's character.
4. Some scenes/plot holes that made the theatrical movie bad weren't fixed:
	* Again, the "Martha" scene.
	* Lex Luthor hates Kryptonians, yet he turns General Zod's (A Kryptonian) corpse into Doomsday, which contradicts his plan of Batman killing Superman.
5. While emotional, Superman's death was kind of pointless. Knowing he would come back in *Zack Snyder's Justice League*, this was only his second appearance in the DCEU, which makes it even more pointless.
	* what makes it more pointless is that Justice League was confirmed to have Superman in the movie before BvS was released.
6. Jimmy Olsen being in this movie just for him to die in less than 10 minutes.
	* Zack Snyder said the reason why Jimmy Olsen was killed off so early was because "*we don't have room for Jimmy Olsen in our big pantheon of characters, but we can have fun with him, right?"*
	* The same thing goes for Mercy Graves as she is killed off randomly after only having a few minutes of screen-time.
7. Compared to the more expansive list for the theatrical version, the Ultimate Edition only gets a few foreign dubs:
	* French (both France and Canada),
	* German
	* Italian
	* Japanese
	* Brazilian Portuguese
	* Spain Spanish.
		+ Other languages the theatrical cut was dubbed in, such as Chinese Mandarin, Czech, Hindi, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Latin-American Spanish, Thai and Turkish only get subtitles for the Ultimate Edition, which is a disservice for those that prefer dubs and want to watch the Ultimate Edition.

## Trivia

* This cut is 31 minutes longer than the theatrical cut. It adds 60 extended scenes, 18 additional scenes, 11 scenes with alternate footage, 8 extended scenes with alternate footage, 1 scene that has uncensored audio and 1 scene that includes alternate dialogue.
* The Ultimate Edition was announced before the theatrical cut was released
* The Ultimate Edition was remastered in 4K in 2021 and released on Ultra HD and streaming with a restored color grading. The 4 IMAX sequences retained their 1.43:1 aspect ratio for that release.
* In the remastered edition, Around 20 minutes of IMAX sequences were shot (Including The opening credits, the "Knightmare" future vision, the titular fight and the closing scenes.)
* This is the first batman film to credit Bill Finger as a co-creator.
* This is the first live action film to feature Batman and Superman together
	+ Also the first live action cinematic portrayal of Wonder Woman.
* 3 days after the release of the theatrical cut, Warner Bros. released a deleted scene, which included Lex Luthor interacting with hologram of Steppenwolf, the main villain in Zack Snyder's Justice League. Zack Snyder later stated that this clip acts as the movie's post-credits scene. This scene is included in the Ultimate Edition, but wasn't in post credits.
* In BvS superman dies at 2:38:57. In Zack Snyder's Justice League he is resurected at 2:38:57
	+ This detail is only in the ultimate edition, as the theatrical cut being only 2h 31m

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