Oh. I really wanted to say I liked this movie, but I kind of left the cinema feeling very confused, not sure what just happened within the 2 hours 33 minutes and just quite disappointed. I don't even really know where to begin, I might sound all over the place because really the movie was all over the place. I know that some of you are going to read this and your going to be screaming at your screens and hating me, but this is just my honest opinion. Before I went to see it, I did see a lot of negative reviews towards a lot of different aspects, but I went in, with a little bit of hope and thinking 'even if the reviews are right, it will still be a good, kind of, badass movie, with lots of action' but unfortunately it didn't have any of that for me.
I was also so disappointed in the trailer too (if you haven't seen the trailer..I'll just say SPOILER ALERT!) the trailer gave SOOOOO much away, it gave away the fact Wonder Woman and Doomsday are in it, so when it came to the actually movie when you see Wonder Woman..not being Wonder Woman..she's sort of a mystery woman throughout the majority of the film (well she was meant to be) but all I thought was 'ah there she is!' Almost like I was waiting for THAT moment, but when it eventually happened I just felt kind of deflated, because I was waiting for it, when it should of been a 'gasp' moment.
When you read the title you automatically think, it is just going to be full action throughout the film, but that wasn't the case at all. Most of it was a hell of a lot of drama, figuring things out and then all of a sudden tons of action..but at the end of the movie. Don't get me wrong I didn't hate the movie, I did enjoy...some of it, and I can see why DC fans would love it, because it gave little teases of The Justice League, so it was like 'oooh look at this character here from The Justice League' However even that..when they were teasing us with The Justice League (The bit with The Flash, Aquaman etc) I felt like they could have made it so much more inventive, it just felt like it was quite unnecessary. It felt like the movie forgot to be its own movie, when they were shoving in which was basically a trailer for The Justice League into the middle of it. It got to the point where it was so poorly written, in the way it gives motivations and storylines here, there and everywhere, it seemed like they didn't care about THIS movie, they cared about the NEXT movie in the future.
All in all this movie has a very weak script. That was a big problem. I was very sceptical about Ben Affleck playing Batman, I did like how he was playing an older Batman, he wasn't pretending to be young which I liked, physically as well he is very fit, I saw how hard he must of worked and train to become that fit, he took on board that Batman obviously will be taking on Superman. But I don't know..I wasn't fully satisfied with his performance but I do think most of it was due to the lack of creative writing. He was a badass Batman and I do think his performance gave off more than the script provided. I watched it and I really liked Ben Affleck as Batman, he even did a great performance being both Bruce Wayne and Batman, but the script just didn't give him any great moments to show off the fact that he is Batman.
I felt like the script does that to everyone apart from Lex Luther. He was the only character who had an idea on where he was going in the movie. This movie, I say again, doesn't motivate any of its characters, and their are just all different movies shoved into one.
Again, I was sceptical about Jesse Eisenberg, but I think that was due to the fact the trailer showed him more as a wacky/jokey character however in the movie, yes he was still wacky and he isn't the "textbook Lex Luther" but I did find him quite intimidating. However he was the only character I felt who had a vision to fill a role as a protagonist and he's the antagonist, a bit of a mess really.
I don't think Zack Snyder took on board anything that people were saying about Man Of Steel, that man does not know how to capture Superman, but apparently neither do the writers. In this movie Superman looks like he is figuring out which emotion to use, I also couldn't see a difference between Clark Kent and Superman..you should be able to see the difference from when he puts on his glasses. You could with Christopher Reeve. He needs to change his body language, his personality, but I feel like he doesn't do any of that, and this being the 21st Century..in this day of age, with all the technology there is, someone would most defiantly noticed Clark Kent and Superman, they could even try and explain that but they didn't even want to try. To be honest there is so much going on and happening in this movie that no one is explaining what the effects are, the motives are so unclear. Even with Lex Luther's "great plan" at the end I still sat there thinking 'why?'
Okay so lets talk about Batman and Superman's great fight. One fight. Throughout the whole film they fight once and it lasts like 5 minutes. Enough said. I didn't feel like it was that good either, sorry. It didn't feel like there was a proper motive into why Bruce Wayne wanted to start a fight with Superman, nothing really personal for us to back him up in a way. In my eyes there was no real reason that they needed to fight.
Overall I would probably give this movie 4/10, I felt like it could of been such a good movie but it just needed a better storyline.
But that's my opinion, I would love to hear what you thought of the film!
S'laters!
Ellie
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