Why DC, why?
DC is behind. We know this. Marvel has been coming out with some serious films recently and to be honest, these films are kicking DC’s butt.

Then Batman V. Superman comes around. Everyone gets excited. People exclaimed, “DC is making a comeback!” I knew it was too good to be true.

This movie felt rushed. Marvel has the Avengers as their main group of super heroes while DC has the Justice League. This film felt it was just a big set up for Justice League, but it was a poor attempt.

Before Ben Affleck, Christian Bale played the role of Batman in the Dark Knight trilogy. He killed it and there is nothing else to say about that. When I heard Affleck would be playing Batman, I was nervous. He did a solid job, but Affleck’s Batman is completely different then Bale’s. Affleck’s is more aggressive and cruel while Bale’s was more high tech and strategic. After saying this, I felt that Affleck’s Batman needed his own movie before this film. They tried to force too much information into this film and it did not lay out well.

However, Henry Cavill did a better job, but we already have seen him play Superman and he has already proven himself to be the man for the job.

But you know who really stole the show? Gal Gadot; aka Wonder Women. She killed her role. Both in battle and as a civilian, Gadot caught your eye immediately. She was sneaky and aggressive; it was also pretty great that every time that Gadot was in the picture that she basically had her own theme song. The first time we actually saw her dressed up as Wonder Woman ready for battle, the audience actually cheered. That’s how built up her entrance was; everyone in the theater was waiting in anticipation for her epic arrival.

Onto the fight. The reason for the name of the movie. It was a good fight and I am not going to spoil anything. But… at the end of the fight the two warriors who are supposed to be brutal and deadly showed mercy and weakness because of a childish reason. This bothered the heck out of me. These two gladiators are trying their damnedest to kill each other and then stop all together over an unbelievably simple reason.

For me, Batman V. Superman was a disappointment. DC is trying to build a franchise and make a chain of movies just like Marvel has done, but you just can’t rush something like that. It takes time, Marvel’s build up of movies started back in 2008. But if you were to look at this movie just as a single movie and not as a chain than I guess it was fine, but there were still too many confusions and errors or inaccuracies in the film. While the inaccuracies were frustrating, the confusions were meant to be there because DC wants to have to answers throughout their new chain of movies. So you cannot look at Batman V. Superman as one, individual movie, you have to see it as the beginning to DC’s new movie universe.

Final Rating:

2.5 / 5