![]() Instead of being the mad scientist from the silver age or the post-Byrne cutthroat businessman more people are familiar with, Eisenberg comes across as Mark Zuckerberg on speed. It’s downright embarrassing, showcasing the actor’s one-note range. In fact, the only real complaint I have about this movie is Eisenberg’s Luthor. Let’s hope she got some acting lessons before she dove into the standalone “Wonder Woman” movie due out next year. She’s also given scant dialogue moments, which works to her advantage because she’s really not that good of an actress at all. Granted, a lot of this is because she’s easy on the eyes and has some great combat scenes. Jeremy Irons is pretty great as Wayne butler Alfred.Įven Gal Gadot, whom I was very skeptical about, shines as Wonder Woman. ![]() Henry Cavill still works as the boy scout superhero, and his clean-cut demeanor plays off nicely against the grittier and more gruff Affleck. Affleck made a great Bruce Wayne and a great Batman, and it was nice to see him doing the work of a detective again rather than just a brawler. Only Wonder Woman in her secret identity guise of Diana Prince gets considerable screen time.Īs far as the cast goes, I was happy with almost everyone. Is the movie crowded? Perhaps a little bit, but it’s hardly insurmountable, and it’s far less crowded than a movie like “Avengers: Age of Ultron.” A lot of the relief to this crowded movie is the inclusion of simples teases to other elements of the DC Cinematic Universe (like a fleeting glimpse at Aquaman, The Flash and Cyborg) rather than extended scenes and drawn-out cameos. had put on Snyder, he managed to deliver a movie that had a specific narrative direction. ![]() However, considering the immense pressure that DC and Warner Bros. Yeah, the story is a bit convoluted at times. While a hot-headed senator (Holly Hunter) is leading a witch hunt against the Man of Steel for his part in the events, maniacal businessman Lex Luthor is pulling the strings to help bring Batman and Superman to a violent confrontation. We see how General Zod’s attack on Metropolis has impacted Bruce Wayne, and we also see the lingering guilt that Superman feels from the devastation he was partly responsible for. The story begins with Batman, which makes sense because “Man of Steel” sequel be damned, this is more of Batman’s story than Superman’s. I was ready to take “Dawn of Justice” at face value. I had forgiven him for movies like “Sucker Punch” and his mediocre film “Man of Steel,” which thumbed its nose at some of the most established source material (like Superman getting his powers from Earth’s atmosphere and not our yellow sun). I wasn’t ready to turn the screws on Zack Snyder. And while I went in with a skeptical eye, I also went in with an open mind. Like the banking industry in 2008, this superhero movie project was deemed too big to fail by the powers that be.įinally the time came to actually watch the movie. Trailers were dropping more than a year before the release while concept art, set images and cast rumors were trickling out on a near weekly basis. Following these casting announcements, the marketing hype machine wound up. However, I was not sold on Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor or the whisper-thin Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman. Sure, I was one of the few people who was kind of excited to see Ben Affleck play Batman, and more importantly Bruce Wayne. and DC Comics was planning on using this film to be less of a Superman sequel and more of a launching pad for their DC Cinematic Universe so a future “Justice League” movie could make the billions of dollars that “The Avengers” had done for marvel, I quickly became skeptical. However, once it was clear that Warner Bros. Superman: Dawn of Justice.” Coming off the painfully flawed “Man of Steel,” I was initially excited to see a big-screen version of the decades-old feud of Batman and Superman (the seeds of which had been planted in the comics when John Byrne revamped Supes in the 80s and Frank Miller had published his groundbreaking “The Dark Knight Returns” graphic novel). I took the long way around to warm up to “Batman v.
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