![]() ![]() It was met with pretty negative reviews from critics upon release, and to a large extent I still agree with their complaints. Intended as an equivalent event to Marvel Studios’ The Avengers, it misfired and wound up essentially being an equivalent to Age of Ultron instead. It is a bloated two-and-a-half hour juggernaut, packed with ominous portent, growling confrontations between heroes, flashbacks and dream sequences. After a north African rescue winds up killing innocent people, he comes under the scrutiny of a United States senate hearing – and in the cross-hairs of Gotham City’s legendary vigilante the Batman (Ben Affleck).īatman v Superman: Dawn of Justice came to cinemas with possibly the silliest title of any superhero movie released to date, not to mention hopelessly overloaded with set-ups and previews for a whole combined universe of future DC Comics-inspired action movies. My opinions back then pretty much hold up now.Įighteen months after his devastating battle against General Zod, Superman (Henry Cavill) remains a polarising figure to the people of Earth. This review is going to look at both, and comes mainly cribbed from reviews I published back in 2016 when both versions were released. ![]() It too is a superhero epic in which a truncated theatrical edition was replaced by subsequent extended edit. Before checking out his new version, however, I felt it was worth covering its predecessor: 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. It ostensibly replaces the theatrical version that was supervised by writer/director Joss Whedon after a family tragedy saw Snyder retire from the film before production was complete. This week Zack Snyder’s four-hour director’s cut of Justice League comes out, and is already being anticipated in both positive and negative fashions. ![]()
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