Let me start with this little bit of info: I enjoyed this movie. Now, on to the review. I don't know why every time we get a new Batman we need to see his origin story again. We get it! Little Bruce Wayne had a really bad weekend once! Or in the case of this movie, twice. I did like that we get to see all of the destruction caused by the Superman and Zod fight from Man of Steel, but from the POV of regular people. That was definitely what I wanted to see, Superman accidentally killing people. Moving on! Ben Afleck did a good job as an older Batman. That is all I am going to say about that. Henry Carvill returns as Superman, which is no surprise considering this film is a sequel to Man of Steel. We dont care about that though because Gal Gadot and Jesse Eisenberg are Wonder Woman and Alexander Luthor respectively. Wonder Woman kicked all kinds of ass, which is good because if she didn't it would have been a disservice to her character. Lex Luther on the other hand, was a much more cerebral character who never steals 40 cakes, that would have been terrible. He just talks for the most part and though he made a lot of good points about Superman, he jumped into the deep end of the crazy pool. Other good things that should be mentioned: The time traveling Flash with the Crisis vibe, the Darksied future teaser, Aquaman not talking with whaaaaales, and Cyborg being created at S.T.A.R. Labs. Now for the things I didn't care for. Batman kills people. Don't try to rationalize it as "Oh, he was only shooting at the cars" or some other bull. Batman KILLS people. Superman kills some people too, like the warlord guy who he tossed through a wall. That guy was dead. Also the origin of Doomsday. That whole thing was really dumb. Yeah, I get it, you need a high profile threat to make the beginnings of the Justice League fight, but Doomsday was the monster that sorta killed superman in the comics. Or put him in a healing coma. Whatever. In the movie he gets almost no fanfare. Its just some wierd monster Lex created to, well, I'm not really sure what the end goal for that was. Lex couldn't control him and if it wasn't for Wonder Woman the whole world would have been fucked. That's right. Wonder Woman. Superman couldn't have done it by himself because Doomsday adapts to what can hurt him and Batman only had the one kryptonite grenade, and we saw that those are only useful for a short while. Anyway the funeral was dumb because they can't kill Superman and then do Justice League. He is kind of a key figure.
Tl;dr I think the movie was pretty good but some parts are dumb.
Movie suggested by Myrenzo Whittaker


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