All the critics panned it. But, raised as I was on Batman and Superman comics, I had to see it, just for old times sake. And, turned out, the critics were right, it was a terrible movie. Scene after scene, each one full of fighting rolled by, but they didn't connect with each other. Only in the last half of the movie with the grudge match between the lead characters, followed by a just as big fight against a monster conjured up by Lex Luther, was there some continuity. Basically this flick suffers for giant plot holes and lack of any continuity from scene to scene. I got lost following a comic book movie. The only character with good lines was Lex Luther, and who cares if the bad guy sounds witty?
Costumes were meh. Superman's red and blue outfit was dulled down to dark blue gray and an odd shade of red for his cape. Batman's costume was all black plate armor that made his look like an overweight gorilla. Wonder Woman was not wearing her bright red white and blue bikini, she was in some kinda one piece bathing suit in neutral brown.
Poor Wonder Woman, she doesn't get any lines, she just turns up in the last reel and does some whacking on Lex Luther's monster. She has a human secret identity but you don't know it, and the scenes in which she appears have little meaning, she is just another tall chick with no real reason for existence.
And a few anachronisms. Lois Lane gets captured by terrorists, who proceed to pop open her 35mm camera and pull the film out of the cartridge, exposing it to sunlight. I gave up using my 35mm five years ago, Lois is a real reporter, you'd think she would have gone over to a DSLR years ago. The hoods who knock off Bruce Wayne's parents use a Government model .45 automatic. That kind of hood ought to be using a .38 revolver.
Anyhow, you can save your money and not go see this one.
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