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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
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Critic Consensus: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice smothers a potentially powerful story -- and some of America's most iconic superheroes -- in a grim whirlwind of effects-driven action.
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| Rating: | PG-13 (for intense sequences of violence and action throughout, and some sensuality) |
| Genre: | Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy |
| Directed By: | Zack Snyder |
| Written By: | David S. Goyer, Chris Terrio |
| In Theaters: | Mar 23, 2016 Wide |
| Box Office: | $260.4M |
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Critic Reviews for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
All Critics (312) | Top Critics (47) | Fresh (90) | Rotten (222)
A momentum-less ode to uncreative people everywhere that torches two of pop culture's greatest characters and uses their ashes as its own personal urinal cake.
You take the good. You take the bad. You take them both and there you have a Zack Snyder film. It's par for the course for anyone who's followed his films. A little pleasantry and a little frustration mixed together.
The most expensive prank ever committed to film.
Basically, this is a little over half an hour of good action scenes framed by two hours of narrative nonsense.
The film's only other notable ingredients, sadly, are the most rumbling soundtrack since Earthquake, a lot of jaw grinding by Ben Affleck, some narrative confusion remarkable even by director Zack Snyder's standards, and... hours and hours of your time.
Extraordinarily muddled and boring.
Audience Reviews for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
A self indulgent bore of a movie. A superhero movie that actually makes you wonder who needs saving more! The audience? or the movie itself?
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Batman v Superman should have been an engaging character study, but it's overstuffed - crowded with actors, jammed with plot, packed with mayhem. Look at the title. It promises a one-on-one showdown between two titans of the superhero world. Granted we do get that. If two physical specimens throwing each other around sounds exciting, then you will be pleased. But there's so much excess fat in this almost three hour film. Too many extraneous plot threads muddle a crowded adventure. Was it really necessary to present the Batman origin story yet another time? I got it, Zack Snyder. Bruce Wayne's parents were murdered. Sheesh! That scene has had more performances than Phantom of the Opera. Cameos from Charlie Rose, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Anderson Cooper are superfluous padding.
We're talking about two guys that dress up in tights and run around fighting crime. The very idea is inherently silly, but you'd think we were detailing the most horrific chapters of World War II given this movie's utterly bleak tone. There's little room for "fun" when grim, depressing self-importance is the thrust of the DC agenda. The strident inability to "lighten up" must also afflict writers Chris Terrio and David S. Goyer who penned this ponderous screenplay. Batman v Superman isn't horrible. It's intermittently involving as it unfolds, but all these issues weigh it down upon reflection. One of those "I was mildly entertained while I sat in the theater, but days later I couldn't care less" type films.
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When hollywood, in all their lurid cash-in policy, again throws away their money and the dignity of DC comics' biggest characters at the feet of a man-child with delusions of grandeur, this is what we all get, and worst of all: we deserve it. It happened when we as audience began to misinterpret verosimilitude (which, ironically, was the key word for Richard Donner and his crew when they pulled together the original 78 superman movie) with misery, darkness and hyper violence, all wrapped up in a mindless computer generated world. This horrible mash-up is one of the lamest and most disgraceful excuses to, once again, keep bribing our childhood.
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