Batman V Superman Dawn of Justice

Batman V Superman Dawn of Justice

So I watched this movie the other day. It's been slated to pieces by critics, yet it made a lot of money at the box office, and friends who have watched it have had differing opinions, so I thought I'd actually take the time to watch it.

There were problems with it, of course, otherwise critics wouldn't have ripped on it so harshly. Overall, as a movie, it wasn't that bad. As a comic book fan, and as someone who doesn't like it when things just don't make sense, I didn't like it. But if you just want to watch an interesting movie then I'm sure you'd enjoy it.

Some of the plot devices to move the story along just seemed a bit random. I almost think that Zack Snyder had a dartboard with ideas on it and chose whichever one the dart landed on in order to decide what to use.

Spoilers Ahead

How to get Batman to actually decide that he needs to kill Superman? Aha! The dart landed on the "Have the Flash go back in time" idea. Flash turns up for a very short amount of time before he's sucked back to the future to give Batman a vision of an evil Superman and Flash tells Batman that "you were right about him"

But then they have their epic battle to the death, and Batman almost kills Superman until he finds out their mothers have the same name. Then they work together to fight against Lex Luthor's monster. I guess the dart landed on the "he find's out their mothers have the same name" idea. If Superman is going to turn evil in the future and invade Earth with an army of monsters, and you've decided to kill him, it shouldn't matter that his mother has the same name as yours. Get it together Bruce.

Ah well. There were still some cool parts, like when Batman walks past the suit of Robin with "joke's on you Batman" written on it. It makes me very interested in the backstory to this universe's Batman. It makes me look forward to Suicide Squad that bit more, and it also makes me look forward to another Batman film. A Batman film that's just a Batman film. Without Superman.