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When I was growing up I would love to sit on Saturday mornings and watch all of the cartoons that featured superheroes. Then I would watch all of the movies and collect the comic books that I could get a hold of. It made it all so much fun for me and it got me to escape into a different world.
So, it is no question that I was waiting for this film to come out that would pit the two top heroes against each other.
“Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice” is a state of the art epic filmmaking. The story begins with another flashback of a young Bruce Wayne witnessing his parent’s murder by the gun wielding mugger, followed by a trauma and his encounter with a flock of bats in a cave near Wayne Manor. This is a scene that we have seen many times, but the next scene shows a replay of the Metropolis-leveling Man of Steel showdown between Superman and General Zod from the point of view of Bruce Wayne who sees hundreds of members of his adopted professional family killed when Wayne Industries Metropolis office is damaged in the super fight.
That reasoning is directly tied to the reality in which these characters inhabit – one that is undeniably informed by the real world circa 2016. This is a Post-9/11 reality that is propelled by the ending of the MAN OF STEEL (MOS from here), and the social ramifications of the death and destruction that occurred due to an alien battle in the skies above Metropolis. That battle and the damage in its wake was in large part a criticism of MOS, but one I didn’t buy into. It served the story, and was believable. While even THE AVENGERS had a NYC-destroying Alien invasion, what happened on the DC side just felt far more damaging and real.
In this film the Caped Crusader is depicted as the scary awesome person. who emerges at night, while Superman is a more balanced character seen during the day and at night maintaining his cover story of working at the Daily Planet.
The script’s early promise recedes as the movie unreels. It is disorganized and heavy footed that carries itself with unearned confidence; you see every card that is going to be played before it is. The movie tries to compensate for these flaws and others through sheer scale and volume and while their is a lot of excitement and times it just not bring the effect. They are brilliant moments in this movie.
I was expecting more from the movie and felt a little cheated. I did love seeing Wonder Woman get introduced into this saga.
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