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Over the weekend the high anticipated movie Batman Vs Superman Dawn Of Justice was finally released. The movie begins with Bruce Wayne aka Batman ( Ben Affleck) on the streets of Metropolis while Superman is fighting General Zod in (2013 Man Of Steel). This early part of the movie paints a different version. It gives you the other aspect of the fight that literally leveled the entire city. During the fight you see the destruction and deaths Zod and Superman caused. This Angers Bruce Wayne who feels that if Superman wanted he could destroy the world and no one could stop him. Fast forward to the present day 18 months later where Bruce Wayne is starting to develop a plan to stop Superman once and for all. Back in Metropolis Superman aka Clark Kent ( Henry Cavaill) grows tired of seeing Batman and his brand of justice. He feels Batman’s methods are barbaric and total uncalled for. Superman has more pressing issues besides dealing with Batman . An incident occurs while Superman is saving the love of his life Louis Lane ( Amy Adams ). This incident ends up with the lose of serval lives and people really start questioning is Superman a hero or Foe. One of the main people who question if Superman is friend or foe is Lex Luthor ( Jesse Eisenberg). Lex does not trust this alien and wants some insurance that he will not just up and kill everyone. Lex some how gets his hands on a kryptonian ship from Superman’s pervious battle with Zod. Lex soon finds Superman’s weakness to kryptonite and a few other secrets of the kryptonian. Bruce Wayne soon finds out Lex has data on Superman and gets himself invited to his lavished party. While trying to steal encrypted data Bruce is introduced to Diana Prince aka Wonder Woman ( Gal Gadot). Diana has Lex in her sites as well and steals Bruce’s data. Diana would later explain to Bruce why she stole the data. Apparently Lex is collecting data on her and a few other super powered individuals. Things come to a climactic ending when Lex kidnaps Clark Kents mother Marta Kent ( Diane Lane) and forces Superman to Kill Batman or else he’s mother will die. What happens next is the ultimate battle between God and Man as the two gladiator square off!
Well first i’ll start by saying I am a huge fan of DC and Marvel movies. With that said I and many other critics just aren’t huge fans of this movie. There are a lot of good things in this movie, but the bad out ways the good by far. Lets start with the positives about this movie. First director Zach Snyder just does a beautiful job visually with this movie. There were some shots were I was just in aww of the film making and cinematograph. Scenes such as when Batman first saw Superman while he was driving the Batmobile. The way the light hit Superman was superb , just a great shot as the Batmobile crashed into the man of steel. Another good thing about this movie was the embodiment of how the super hero did. Ben, Henry and Gal killed these roll and truly embodied these iconic DC legends. The biggest hats off goes to Ben Affleck , who a lot of people doubted for this role ( me included). Ben to me made an awesome Batman , even though this was a different type of Batman. In pervious Batman movies Batman or Bruce Wayne was always this billionaire playboy. But , this version was an older seasoned Bruce Wayne and a darker version of his alter-ego Batman. This darker version was good and bad in some way. One of the biggest issue people had with Batman in this movie was that he pretty much killed people. Now you might not be the biggest comic book reader , but everyone knows Batman doesn’t kill. Its his biggest code, yet he’s unloading automatic weapons on bad guys?
Now for the bad, the script for this movie was horrible there was no fluidity at all in this movie. This has always been a crutch of director Zach Snyder for a while now. Not being able to present a good story with the beautiful visuals. A lot of things in this movie made absolutely no sense. Key example Wonder Woman’s alter-ego Diana Prince had no need to be in this movie. I understand she’s up next for her own solo movie next summer, but her storyline didn’t flow with B v S at all. As for Superman plot was another issue I had. This whole he’s an alien and how can we trust him BS gets annoying fast. This is a stand alone movie issue. This movie last time I checked was called Batman Vs Superman and this mini side plot distracts us from this. The only persons storyline that made sense was Batman aka Bruce Wayne . Bruce saw first hand the power and destruction that Superman has as he and Zod leveled the city. While in the process killing one of Bruce’s good friends. With that you see why he feels as if Superman is the enemy and with power like that he cant be trusted. Now to the worse part of this movie f***** Jesse Eisnburg as Lex Luther Zach , really??? He by far was one of the worse antagonist of all time. Now you can say even though he was technically Lex Jr. he gets a pass , no he doesn’t. I grew up watching Superman as a kid in movies and cartoons. With that said Lex Luther was always a menacing character that demand respect. He would walk in the room and just give someone a look and they’d tremble in fear. This Lex is corky , neardy and sarcastic ass hole to put it point blank. To be honest he would have made a great riddler , but Lex nooooo!!!! Now this last part is a SPOILER if you haven’t seen the movie yet. The last fight scene between Batman and Superman was great, I cant even knock it. But, the coming of Domesday who all comic book readers know is the villain the ultimately kills Superman in the comics. There was no reason to introduce this Iconic villain this early in the DC universe of movies. Also the fact Lex created him in Superman ship was just wrong. Now the actual fight scene with Batman , Superman and Wonder Woman against Domesday was worth the wait of an hour and thirty minutes of unneeded footage. That last fight Wonder Woman shined bright, made me want to see her movie next year even more.
Lets be real at the end of the day its about the money and as long as it makes money it will always make sense. B v S brought in 170 million this past weekend. Making it the 4th biggest opening of any superhero movie and its the biggest opening of any DC film. Even with all the negative press the movie still ended up on top.