I have mentioned before that we have yet to get a really good Superman movie and this is no different, although his character is slightly more fleshed out he is still left with the weakest plot thread so I can’t fault Henry Cavill as he done well with what he was given but there seems to be an issue with writers bringing a good story forward for the character. The first thirty minutes of this movie were very promising and I thought we were going to get a classic. The whole area of Superman being set up as a God like alien being through some good use of iconography. His whole motives being questioned and his appearance in front of a Congressional hearing and also the whole set up by Lex Luther to poison his name was good and I found myself intrigued to see what they were taking me but then it seemed that they wanted to up the action and the path leading to the clash between the two heroes fighting became very weak in comparison.

Despite what some others thought I liked Jessie Eisenberg as Lex Luther but he wasn’t really given a huge amount of screen time to develop into the master criminal in the same way Lex Luther had been in previous movies. That’s a theme all the way through with both Amy Adams as Lois Lane and Jeremy Irons as Alfred, who both should have been central characters given their relationships with the heroes, were side bars who dropped in from time to time. Adams spend most of the movie being rescued and it undone the good work of the Man of Steel movie in building her into a strong female character and Alfred seemed to be demoted to Batmans tech support.

The best part of this whole movie was, surprisingly, Ben Affleck as Batman and the linking into the plot of Batmans motivation as he see hundreds of his employees killed when the Wayne Industries’ building in Metropolis is destroyed during the Superman Vs Zod fight at the end of the man Of Steel movie, was both very clever and very well done. I hadn’t held much hope for Afflecks version but he really hit the stop and it gave a darker, moodier Batman (complete with a great new Batsuit) purpose and meaning as a man who will kill, or brand, anything that gets in his way. The introduction of Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman was done well enough but the role made her more like a Bond girl than a hero at least until the finale however the actual link to the rest of the characters in Justice League via an e-mail was horrible and just felt tacked on because it had to be.

Now, the main reason we all looked forward to this movie so much, the battle between Batman and Superman was very well done. The motivation behind it for both characters was believable however the way the fight ends and thus the teaming up of the heroes was very weak in comparison and didn’t really make sense for it to occur at that time. I’m still sitting on the fence about the appearance of Doomsday, the introduction was solid, looked good on screen and did feel like it was huge threat but, again, I expected a bit more screen time.

Once again Zach Snyder has given us a comic book movie which looks great but is lacking a little something in the plot and the script, if you don’t go in with high expectations and can look past some of the issues then it’s a well acted and enjoyable action film which has taken up the plot line from Man Of Steel, put a little twist on it and brought us from there into the new era of the Justice League and it was done well, it just that the expectation has much higher so it leaves you feeling a bit empty afterwards.

DJ Speaks Rating: 5.5 Out Of 10