Its a movie I can hate, but its a more frustrating movie on what could have been, which is a shame. The movie was to busy trying to shove it in your face (we are making sequel after sequel) instead of trying to be its own stand alone sequel. They blew their load on the second movie with superman, how many storylines can be topped with what happened with superman? so much is rushed, villains motives like Lex made no sense that you are scratching your head. Batman killing and lack of depth on why he does kill is a huge deal, Batman killing should be the biggest thing that is highlighted in this film, not odd hints here and there. We hear bits on Batman's 20 years of fighting, how aliens can change good men, hints on why robin was murdered, but I want more on why the Batman is murdering and hey branding people.
The biggest problem on why this film collapses in on itself - BVS were too busy setting stuff instead of trying to be a good stand alone film, which makes this such a frustrating experience. Winter soldier is standard of not setting stuff up, and they threw the movie under the bus for future movies, and the final act really collapsed in on itself
Positives? Batman was great despite only hints dropped on his past, for me I still think Bale's Batman is better fleshed out and written, but Ben has to help carry the weight of a film to heavy to carry and its messy, and its a film burning candle at both ends, Ben needs his stand alone film so I can fully judge his Batman/Bruce. Alfred for me was the best character in the film which I wanted more from him. The first 10 minutes of Bruce giving us the window of seeing his point of view has Zod and Superman rip apart the city give me goosebumps, it was epic from the score, to all the chaos going around Bruce. I liked the political aspect of the film, fighting for power, humans helpless in seeing something so powerful they cannot control, that one individual could wipe out an entire planet with his bare hands. If they stayed within the story line of the political aspect, the Batman and Superman story-line, we may have had one very well made film
I feared this film would be DC's Iron Man 2 slash spiderman 3, and that is exactly what I got
Overall I enjoyed MOS more, because it was being its own movie, not too busy setting stuff up.
WB needs to stop that Superman is Jesus allegory. I think that turns people off...and it's not like he's very compassionate. He literally killed a guy as soon as the film starts...put him through a concrete wall. The worst part was Sups face before doing it. He had a sadistic look in his eyes...which he never got rid of in that whole film, until Batman with his Gandalf stick was about to kill him.
