SPOILER. A near-total train wreck of a movie, saved by a very few highlights.
THE GOOD. Almost every actor does the best they can with the material. It's not Eisenberg or Fishburne's fault that their characters are written wrong. The final showdown between the heroes and Doomsday is pretty nifty, as is the first half of the fight between B and S. I look forward to a Affleck-helmed Batflick, and I thought Wonder Woman was handled very well. Definitely a first for live-action. (As much as I love Linda Carter, that take was seriously campy. Fun, but campy.)
THE BAD. HC? Kind of bland. No, make that very bland. Perry White is too mellow and, though it's cool they have him as a scientist/tech guy, having Lex be basically insane, rather than cold and calculating, is a serious misstep. Also, the fight between Bat and Supes should have ended in the middle, after S got the upper hand. After all, his mother's life was at stake. Why the hell would he just wallop on B? Petty revenge? Silly.
THE UGLY. The whole first hour plus. Unbelievably ham-fisted. We get to hear over and over about how we can't trust S over and over. Oh, did I repeat myself? Over and over. The set-up in the desert that is supposed to push everyone over the edge? Does no one actually think in this film? If S wanted to kill everyone, he wouldn't need a gun. That's the whole point of being Superman. But yeah, a bunch of guys get shot. Terrorists. And we're supposed to believe that the really strong, bullet-proof guy did it. Or that we care about the fate of terrorists.
Zero joy. Less than in the last movie, and I didn't think that was possible. Cramming in the cameos from The Flash and Aquaman (and whoever else that was) merely padded out the running time. Did we need to see them again and again as well? Probably not.
The dialogue. For the most part it's either contrived, trying too hard to be poignant, or just plain bad. People are simply repeating each other or saying things that make no sense, but are there to move the plot forward.
Doomsday. Not that it exists, but how it was made. WHY?! Why would an advanced civilization place the ability to make an ultimate weapon like that on a penal colony ship? Or any ship at all? And why.... WTF???... would they allow a non-Kryptonian to simply say "Oh yeah. Let's make that?" Oh, there's so much more I could get into...
For the most part, things happen in this movie simply to happen. It's dark, ugly and meandering. I had zero expectations for this going in and, aside from those few points above, it still disappointed. I paid a buck and a half at the discount theater to see this. I asked for a dollar of it back.
THE GOOD. Almost every actor does the best they can with the material. It's not Eisenberg or Fishburne's fault that their characters are written wrong. The final showdown between the heroes and Doomsday is pretty nifty, as is the first half of the fight between B and S. I look forward to a Affleck-helmed Batflick, and I thought Wonder Woman was handled very well. Definitely a first for live-action. (As much as I love Linda Carter, that take was seriously campy. Fun, but campy.)
THE BAD. HC? Kind of bland. No, make that very bland. Perry White is too mellow and, though it's cool they have him as a scientist/tech guy, having Lex be basically insane, rather than cold and calculating, is a serious misstep. Also, the fight between Bat and Supes should have ended in the middle, after S got the upper hand. After all, his mother's life was at stake. Why the hell would he just wallop on B? Petty revenge? Silly.
THE UGLY. The whole first hour plus. Unbelievably ham-fisted. We get to hear over and over about how we can't trust S over and over. Oh, did I repeat myself? Over and over. The set-up in the desert that is supposed to push everyone over the edge? Does no one actually think in this film? If S wanted to kill everyone, he wouldn't need a gun. That's the whole point of being Superman. But yeah, a bunch of guys get shot. Terrorists. And we're supposed to believe that the really strong, bullet-proof guy did it. Or that we care about the fate of terrorists.
Zero joy. Less than in the last movie, and I didn't think that was possible. Cramming in the cameos from The Flash and Aquaman (and whoever else that was) merely padded out the running time. Did we need to see them again and again as well? Probably not.
The dialogue. For the most part it's either contrived, trying too hard to be poignant, or just plain bad. People are simply repeating each other or saying things that make no sense, but are there to move the plot forward.
Doomsday. Not that it exists, but how it was made. WHY?! Why would an advanced civilization place the ability to make an ultimate weapon like that on a penal colony ship? Or any ship at all? And why.... WTF???... would they allow a non-Kryptonian to simply say "Oh yeah. Let's make that?" Oh, there's so much more I could get into...
For the most part, things happen in this movie simply to happen. It's dark, ugly and meandering. I had zero expectations for this going in and, aside from those few points above, it still disappointed. I paid a buck and a half at the discount theater to see this. I asked for a dollar of it back.
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