![]() Then along comes Jesse Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor. ![]() Affleck underplays the role nicely, exuding rumpled world-weariness like only a man who’s survived Gigli can, and dispelling any lingering memories of Daredevil. (Could it be that Snyder is channelling all the angry comments he got on message boards about his previous film’s destructive finale?) Wayne’s pissed, he’s paranoid, he’s going full Trump. A Rashomon-style replaying of Man Of Steel’s finale through the eyes of Bruce Wayne, as he slaloms through Metropolis in a tiny black car in an effort to rescue his employees, helps us buy into his rage when it comes to Superman. Besides another run-through of Bruce Wayne’s tragic backstory (including an odd nod to John Boorman’s Excalibur), Dawn Of Justice strains to both set up a plausible conflict between the two superheroes, and shift pieces into place for future sequels and spin-offs. As the colon in the unwieldy title suggests, this is really two movies squished into one. But talk about delayed gratification: Snyder makes you wait, and wait, and wait for the championship bout. And once it arrives, the fight is a tightly choreographed, berserkly overwrought treat. Two titans of pop culture will, we are assured, rearrange city streets with each other’s faces. ![]() Godzilla - the title carries a charge of giddy promise. For those who found Man Of Steel gloomy, there's bad news: the addition of Bruce Wayne has not lightened the mood any.Īs with other ‘versus’ films - Alien Vs.
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