The movie made me feel like they filmed 20, 10 minute, clips and then jammed them all together. The flow and pace of the movie was crap. I also thought Lex was trying to be a Ledger Joker. I thought Ben was a bad ass Batman though! Dude got jacked for this movie! The work out scene reminded me of a Rocky montage...I loved it!! Superman was alright, same ol' same ol'. Wonder Woman, damn she's fine! Anyway...this statue is the **** and I will be ordering it. I know there will be a lot of goobers creaming their jeans over the light up eyes, but after I turn mine on once they will never shine again.
Well that's one view of the movie.
Here is another view:
1. The movie is complex with four major plots and a few minor ones.
2. The story, director, and movie film all started the 4 major plots and few minor ones to be separate, and then brilliantly blended them together to tell a much bigger story, so big in fact, that it was synergetic (for example the result of 3+1 is more than four). Each plot was part of the body of the story.
3. The title to the movie brilliantly and intellectually disguised what the real battle was ... that in fact it was not a battle of the physical. Rather, it was a battle between ideologies which grossly fueled paranoia, ego, horrific childhood experience, versus standing steadfast by principals which applied to a universal way of life for all people. Note, I was one of those people who went into the movie perturbed and a bit pissed off that two of my favourite superhero were being used to fight in an arena ... obviously, this is not the case, not even close.
4. The fact was the movie premiered on Good Friday was not a coincidence. I won't say why here as to not spoil it for those who have not seen it ... for those who have seen the movie they can pull the together the fact that the movie was purposely released Good Friday with the ending, and hence can now move throughout the movie in their mind with a depiction of Superman and what he stood for, and how he was tested on those principals.
This movie will become a literary piece. It took a lot of balls to put something like this out to the public in the domain of of the Superhero culture, and yes, they all (writers, directors, producers, work crews, and actors/sess) pulled it off BRILLIANTLY.