Too often, Snyder places the camera too close to the action - be it a fight scene or a car chase - and lets the noise and chaos distract us from the fact that there is little artistry in the editing, composition and choreography. Most of the rest of the movie, however, takes place in dreary, CGI-enhanced darkness. In addition, Wayne’s nightmares - one of which involves a trench-coated Batman taking on a platoon of Superman soldiers in a dusty apocalypse - also stand out in terms of cinematography and production design. (His Watchmen, like Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City, is one of the more aesthetically faithful adaptations of the graphic novel art form.) Re-envisioning the oft-filmed legend of Bruce Wayne’s parents being mugged and murdered, Snyder punctuates it with a close-up of Martha Wayne’s pearl necklace getting caught around the barrel of the assailant’s gun, an image of privilege and security being coarsely violated. I’ll go on: there is essentially a trailer for the next DC Comics enterprise - the two-part Justice League - ungainly dropped into the proceedings the CGI destruction is endless and punishing and the finale involves a battle with a space monster who looks like he failed his audition as the cave troll in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.īefore I join the pile-on of director Zack Snyder, let me admit that the few moments of interest in Batman v Superman are due to his eye for striking, comic-book compositions. Henry Cavill - a fine Superman as far as any of us know - is once again sidelined in his own movie, as happened in Man of Steel.
Jesse Eisenberg, as Lex Luthor, tries to walk on Heath Ledger’s Joker high wire, but mostly falls back on his usual motor-mouth arrogance. Ben Affleck, taking on the role of Bruce Wayne for the first time, begins the film looking haggard and ends it barely awake. This is a fundamental flaw, but there are other problems.
Battman v supeman movie#
The movie undoubtedly deserves a rotten tomato.īen Affleck begins the film looking haggard and ends it barely awake. At the end of the day, the title characters in Batman v Superman fight simply because there is a “v” in the title. Goyer, layers on all sorts of narrative complications, none of which are convincing and many of which are in conflict with each other. The screenplay, by Chris Terrio and David S. Oh, the movie tries to provide explanations. But for the life of me, after two and a half hours, I couldn’t tell you why Batman and Superman were fighting. And indeed, it is mostly about the two superheroes in conflict, often violently. So there’s this movie called Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. When did I first begin eating them? What about their taste and texture appeals to me? Simply having scenes of me eating tomatoes would get pretty boring. But at some point, this movie - let’s call it Josh Loves Tomatoes - should probably give some sense of why I love tomatoes.
If I were to make a movie about, say, my love of tomatoes, I would understandably include a number of scenes of myself eating tomatoes.
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