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OK, so, reviews lowered my expectations. Still, I went in with some hopes. One, Ben Affleck to do a good job. Two, the mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent to be right in my eyes. Three, Wonder Woman to be treated with a bit of respect. For my money, all three were pretty much hits.

Of the big three characters, the bulk of the time was given to Ben Affleck to establish his Batman. Think the Batman in Dark Knight Rises, but he continued instead of retiring, and that's about spot on. He's jaded, tired, but the desire to end Superman gives him purpose. He's not the finest Batman ever committed to celluloid but he's in the top three.

Clark Kent as Daily Planet reporter was underused as a consequence and that's about all I have to say about that.

Wonder Woman is something of a bit-part, to be honest, though Gal Gadot gives it all she has, and that's about all you can ask in a film like this.

Overall, then? Well, remember Spider-Man 3? It had too many elements to be coherent, to hang together like a superhero film should. BvS is pretty much that. DC Comics must have felt that they didn't have the luxury of building up the characters in the way that Marvel have, so they've put their collective foot on the accelerator and, well, it's a bit messy. Events are thinly told early on and things don't really come together coherently until about forty minutes before the end. That's also when the four, five points of humour kick in, a bit too late.

Finally, it seems that Bruce Wayne does have powers after all... prophetic dreams! Who knew?

The film was somehow too long and too short at the same time. The ludicrous runtime was stuffed with cameos and nods and pointless scenes, while the central premise of Batman fighting Superman was badly undercooked. They barely share any screen time. Instead, we get the vague notion of Bats thinking Superman is a threat and a generic "villain forces hero to fight other hero" thing leading to a brief clash. Giving more of the plot to the two heroes learning about eachother, and Batman cleverly planning a way to beat Supes, would have been a better, more interesting film. We get a tiny bit of that, then some generic kryptonite + punching stuff followed by a big, overly fake, rushed fight between Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and a cave troll from Fellowship of the Ring.

Oh, and doing a fake Superman death twice in the last ten minutes of the film was ridiculous.

Well there reasoning wasn't inspiration from something but the death of his Robin which has made to reflect on what he does , as if had killed the Joker then Robin would still be here.