Okay this review will look very depressing, because the
movie is kind of disappointing. From the trailer, you can already see the whole
picture – literary the whole picture; it didn’t give us a proper cliffhanger;
there were things that the trailer said too much. I was already seeing another
blockbuster downer – this happened with Terminator: Genesys (2015).
To the picture.
The movie is aggressive in many ways. The story, the
characters, the tempo, the look, etc. It was dark and depressing. DC really
likes the dark-themed of their products. Contrary to their adversary, Marvel.
It was really their style of story. But, the most aggressive part of their
franchise was their pride; they didn’t want to follow Marvel’s strategy of
story and character building; instead they did it too fast.
The theme of the movie was really interesting. I really like
the missconception of Batman and Superman. But, it wasn’t really engaging the
whole thing, because of the weak character build-up and the slow-build story.
Oh yeah, for the story, it was both too slow and too fast. Let me get this
straight. Batman started this movie too old (that’s why it was too fast) and we
didn’t see the whole picture of Snyder’s Batman. We need the standalone Batman
movie first, then after that, we would really enjoy Batman v. Superman. More
about Batman later. The slow part about the movie was the story build-up. They
use some plot points for preparing Justice League, but they didn’t support the
whole movie into something useful. I think they only tried to tease us. But,
I’m not sure that I’m that excited of it. There should be more character
build-up for Batman and Superman from this movie. Because both of their names
appeared on the title.
The mise en scene were pretty amazing – the dark yet comical
look. It was the main key selling point of the film. Snyder also used some
symbolism in the movie and interestingly wasn’t hard to be found. But, what
iritated me was the fact that they also destroyed a whole city for their fight.
It was like Dragonball in the real world.
Ben Affleck’s Batman was the hype we were all waiting for.
We would like to see how it compared with Christian Bale’s Batman. And I think,
Ben Affleck’s Batman nailed it in his own way. But not in a very “Batman” way.
Alright, I mentioned about “aggressive” earlier, right? Well Batman was very
very aggressive. Oh man, seeing Batman killing guys was really a bummer.
Batman, as I knew it, NEVER kills his enemies. Just look at The Dark Knight
(2008), Christian Bale’s Batman didn’t kill Joker, even though he had killed
his love intesrest; nor in the animated series. I was really shocked and not
really thrilled. I thought, “Ohhhh.. so that’s why Superman wanted to kill
Batman” – I wasn’t surprised. Batman’s character in this movie looks comical
instead of realistic. Even his costume, gadgets, and WEAPONS looked comical.
As for Superman, well, as usual had to face an identity
crisis – the theme which Man of Steel (2013) tried to explore. Superman was
aggressive when he tried to levitate, REALLY, I hate it when he was going to
fly. The sonic boom really hurt my ears and, literary, my heart. Why can’t he
just levitated slowly in normal situations? I understand if he was fighting in
a battlefield, but not EVERYtime. There’s also an awkward-fuuny-peevish moment
near the end of the final battle scene; I’ll give you a hint, it had something
to do with Lois Lane. I, Thaliya, Ricky, and Timo were laughing hard at this
scene. You’ll notice it, if you watch the movie.
Jesse Einsberg was the BEST Lex Luthor I’ve ever seen. He
played it as a fragile-but-full-of-evil-ideas Lex Luthor. Einsberg showed us
the phsycology of sociopath people. Even his little actions were amazing. In
this movie, they explored a glimes of his back story.
The most fun part of the movie was the scoring. Seeing Hans
Zimmer and Junkie XL teaming up to create them was a dream come true for
filmmakers. There was a chemistry going on between them. They both create
entertaining scoring for great movies. Ricky even set their scoring for his
phone’s ringtone.
Snyder’s visualisation of Batman and Superman wasn’t good.
There were a lot of things which he tried to do in HIS own way. But, one thing
I learned recently is that sometimes one’s ego had to be fought down so the
people’s voices can be heard. Some of the people’s voices weren’t heard.
Snyder’s ambition to always compare his works with Nolan’s had become his
greatest weakness. He shouldn’t do things like this, WE SHOULDN’T DO THINGS
LIKE THIS.
The verdict:
Batman v. Superman lacks the fun part of movie-watching; it
builds too slow and too fast at the same time.
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