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YAWN OF JUSTICE
Gotham vs Metropolis. Billionaire vigilante vs
undercover alien. Bruce Wayne vs Clark Kent.
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Hollywood’s undying obsession with dramatic
interpretations of popular comic book superheroes
reached a climax in 2016 with the release of Ryan
Reynolds’ narcissistic anti-hero Deadpool, the inevitable
divide of the Marvel Avengers in Civil War and of
course, the aforementioned Batman vs Superman.
Without spoiling too much, Batman has beef with
Superman because of his reckless disregard for the
destruction he caused in the Man of Steel movie (and
the fact people think he’s a better hero), so he sets out
to eliminate his rival. This spite is only encouraged by
actual bad-guy, Lex Luther, whose psychotic tendencies
are amplified by his colossal inherited wealth.
Has the makings of an awesome movie right? So what
went wrong?
Firstly, why does Wonder Woman’s character get minimal
screen time and no back story, despite being the most
interesting of all of the characters on screen? (Oh yeah,
that’s right! Wonder Woman is actually in the film for all of
7 minutes).
Then there’s just the overall script and storyline… You
know a movie is boring when you need to add dream
sequences in order to wind up in the action category
of the video store. Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill were
really disappointing in their delivery of any chemistry on
screen. In saying that, Jesse Eisenberg (Luther) produced
a performance that may have saved the film from total
abomination.
While Zac Snyder’s cinematography is artistic in parts,
these are throwaway seconds and there’s no element
of mise en scene. Snyder has done no repair to his
reputation after Man of Steel and has created another
snoozy ‘action’ film.
Zac mate, it’s a superhero movie. Keep it fun.
WORDS: TOM SHERSON – USQ Alumni
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