A movie so bad that it has to be seen to be believed. There used to be a time, not long ago, when a budget in excess of $200 million would get you a more than a satisfactory movie experience (Titanic and The Dark Knight, anyone?), but those days seem to be long gone, especially since hack-wunderkind Zack Snyder keeps getting his vanity superhero movies green lit over and over and over again... Ben Affleck's Batman here is a cartoonish character, a carton board caricature compared to what the character was in Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy, and Superman... well, what can really be said of Henry Cavill's acting? He makes you long for the days of Brandon Routh's Superman, and that's certainly not an encouraging thought. Jesse Eisenberg's Lex Luthor is likewise a wasted opportunity, an-over-the-top ridiculous portrayal of a madman whose lunacy is without motivation or logic. And then there are the actions scenes, which are as boring as anything you'd see in an action movie of this magnitude. The conflict between DC Universe's two biggest superheroes is simply ridiculous to begin with, and the fact that Hollywood has managed to make a 140-minute film that's grossing this much money (as we speak) while giving the audiences not a shred of intelligence is a travesty. And the worst part is that its success will surely breed countless sequels, all just as transparent and shallow, and none with anything constructive to add to the mythology of either Superman or Batman. This is by far the worst Hollywood mega-buster since 2008's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
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