Took my son to see the movie last night and it was a pretty mixed bag for me. Overall i'd give it a 6.5 or 7. Was it absolutely unwatchable? nah. Did it have some cool action scenes? yeah. Am I excited for the Justice League? eh...I'm wary. To preface my review, I'm not a huge Batman or Superman fan, but I enjoyed the comics growing up some and like the Arkham batman games. I've never seen Man of Steel and wasn't a big fan of Bale's Batman. With that said...
For the record, my 11 y/o son loved it. But he likes everything. The movie has a lot of problems, but it's not a terrible movie. It needs to be slimmed down and re-arranged and maybe it would be a little less confusing but overall it gets where it's going and opens the door to more movies. They need to get rid of snyder or some writers or something and improve. Right now, Marvel isn't threatened at all. DC needs to buckle down and learn something from the public. It's ok to be more serious, but the audience needs to breathe a little and relax and, you know, have fun!
The good
I felt Batfleck was actually a pretty good Batman. He was pretty ruthless. I felt his story was probably the best part of the movie even if we've seen it 100 times. If you're a huge batman fanboi, you probably won't like this version. I kept thinking of the Punisher to an extent. He wasn't killing people for the sake of it, but he had a goal and wasn't going to stop no matter what or let anyone get in his way. I didn't mind this version but some folks won't like it.
The action was pretty good once we got some. I felt the scope and magnetude of the powers felt pretty on point. Bats v Supes one on one, they made you feel that Batman would've been crushed like a grape if Supes wanted but batman was savvy as usual and came prepared. Same with Doomsday's power. He felt pretty scary.
The music was bad ass. Hans Zimmer and Junkie XL were a pretty good combo and I felt the music really helped out the movie.
Wonder Woman actually suprised me and felt pretty powerful. Some folks felt she didn't deliver her lines, but she didn't have much dialog and I felt she did alright. The theatre actually cheered when she came on screen in costume.
The bad
Lex Luthor was an odd villian. I guess they tried to make him the opposite of the real lex who was calm and calculated, but he just came off as trying to be too crazy, because he dad beat him?, and it felt a bit forced. He felt more Joker-ish than Luthor-ish.
Too grimdark. Comic book movies, to me, should be FUN. Comics are fun. Marvel movies are fun. This movie was not fun. I enjoyed the movie somewhat, but overall, it didn't excite me. It's fine to be more serious at times (Winter soldier did this well) but you need to have something to lift you up now and then. Take you on a ride. This film was brooding upon brooding.
Intro of the other "meta humans" was a side note. Just watching video clips of the other folks felt little wierd. Sure the Flash shows up in a Batfleck dream but that was strange and why would he show up in a dream within a dream? He was having a double dream? it was stupid and had no pay off. He said Lois is the key, but he never actively went searching for her, so what was the point? Aquaman's video was dumb too. They didn't even show him do anything at all other than bolt out of a wrecked ship. really? Cyborb's video was pretty cool but felt too isolated.
Doomsday felt too CGI. While the final fight felt like a serious threat to the world and power scale felt accurate (Marvel could learn a thing from DC on that front), the actual character looked awful to me and sort of took me out of the fight as I didn't believe they were actually fighting a thing. I'm not sure how they could've fixed it, but it was off
The ugly
Scattered plot. This beginning of this movie is so disjointed it's hard to keep up with what's going on and why. we jump from the opening credits which starts decent and ends super weird, to Bruce going to Metropolis during the MoS battle and seeing his building crumble, to the indian ocean, to africa for whatever reason, to senate hearings, to child/sex trafficking? honestly i didn't even know what that was about...etc...it's a jumbled mess and no real explaination. It's also so long before any good action that the dude beside me whipped out his phone to browse facebook midway through and I felt like joining him. It takes SO LONG to get where it's going, it's lost the audience
Superman dies? what? you spent all this time trying to clean up the mess of MoS only to kill him off? The redemption is him sacrificing himself? The back and forth funeral was oddly cut and made it confusing as well. I"m sure it's all a Jesus analogy since they were playing the whole God/Man card the whole movie, but Snyder might want to take a Theology 101 class if he wanted to go down the route. I'm no bible scholar, but it missed the mark with a savior analogy. Jesus sacrificed himself atone for the sins of the world, not to atone for his own sins against the world.
I felt Batfleck was actually a pretty good Batman. He was pretty ruthless. I felt his story was probably the best part of the movie even if we've seen it 100 times. If you're a huge batman fanboi, you probably won't like this version. I kept thinking of the Punisher to an extent. He wasn't killing people for the sake of it, but he had a goal and wasn't going to stop no matter what or let anyone get in his way. I didn't mind this version but some folks won't like it.
The action was pretty good once we got some. I felt the scope and magnetude of the powers felt pretty on point. Bats v Supes one on one, they made you feel that Batman would've been crushed like a grape if Supes wanted but batman was savvy as usual and came prepared. Same with Doomsday's power. He felt pretty scary.
The music was bad ass. Hans Zimmer and Junkie XL were a pretty good combo and I felt the music really helped out the movie.
Wonder Woman actually suprised me and felt pretty powerful. Some folks felt she didn't deliver her lines, but she didn't have much dialog and I felt she did alright. The theatre actually cheered when she came on screen in costume.
The bad
Lex Luthor was an odd villian. I guess they tried to make him the opposite of the real lex who was calm and calculated, but he just came off as trying to be too crazy, because he dad beat him?, and it felt a bit forced. He felt more Joker-ish than Luthor-ish.
Too grimdark. Comic book movies, to me, should be FUN. Comics are fun. Marvel movies are fun. This movie was not fun. I enjoyed the movie somewhat, but overall, it didn't excite me. It's fine to be more serious at times (Winter soldier did this well) but you need to have something to lift you up now and then. Take you on a ride. This film was brooding upon brooding.
Intro of the other "meta humans" was a side note. Just watching video clips of the other folks felt little wierd. Sure the Flash shows up in a Batfleck dream but that was strange and why would he show up in a dream within a dream? He was having a double dream? it was stupid and had no pay off. He said Lois is the key, but he never actively went searching for her, so what was the point? Aquaman's video was dumb too. They didn't even show him do anything at all other than bolt out of a wrecked ship. really? Cyborb's video was pretty cool but felt too isolated.
Doomsday felt too CGI. While the final fight felt like a serious threat to the world and power scale felt accurate (Marvel could learn a thing from DC on that front), the actual character looked awful to me and sort of took me out of the fight as I didn't believe they were actually fighting a thing. I'm not sure how they could've fixed it, but it was off
The ugly
Scattered plot. This beginning of this movie is so disjointed it's hard to keep up with what's going on and why. we jump from the opening credits which starts decent and ends super weird, to Bruce going to Metropolis during the MoS battle and seeing his building crumble, to the indian ocean, to africa for whatever reason, to senate hearings, to child/sex trafficking? honestly i didn't even know what that was about...etc...it's a jumbled mess and no real explaination. It's also so long before any good action that the dude beside me whipped out his phone to browse facebook midway through and I felt like joining him. It takes SO LONG to get where it's going, it's lost the audience
Superman dies? what? you spent all this time trying to clean up the mess of MoS only to kill him off? The redemption is him sacrificing himself? The back and forth funeral was oddly cut and made it confusing as well. I"m sure it's all a Jesus analogy since they were playing the whole God/Man card the whole movie, but Snyder might want to take a Theology 101 class if he wanted to go down the route. I'm no bible scholar, but it missed the mark with a savior analogy. Jesus sacrificed himself atone for the sins of the world, not to atone for his own sins against the world.
For the record, my 11 y/o son loved it. But he likes everything. The movie has a lot of problems, but it's not a terrible movie. It needs to be slimmed down and re-arranged and maybe it would be a little less confusing but overall it gets where it's going and opens the door to more movies. They need to get rid of snyder or some writers or something and improve. Right now, Marvel isn't threatened at all. DC needs to buckle down and learn something from the public. It's ok to be more serious, but the audience needs to breathe a little and relax and, you know, have fun!
