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In other words, Luthor’s elaborate conspiracy to pit Batman against Superman is pointless, and cluttered up with characters and locations that add nothing to the film.īatman v Superman comprises self-contained moments and gestures, some of which are impressive in their own right, but which fail to cumulatively breathe. Luthor’s eventually revealed to be capable of using a fallen Kryptonian warship as a kind of interdimensional easy-bake oven, whipping up a forgettable CGI-rendered monster on demand that he sends to kill both heroes anyway. Snyder isn’t compelled to ask why Luthor should care about them one way or the other, where a more sophisticated film might’ve implied that ostentatious heroism could distract the populace from Luthor’s duller and more insidiously damaging corporate antics. Luthor’s motivation equates to rote master villainy, the usual desire to end the world, but Snyder is too self-conscious to resort to providing so simple an explanation, so we get no motivation instead, apart from the fact that Luthor needs Batman to kill Superman in order to discredit both heroes for some reason.

The film is called Batman v Superman, yet the inciting incident for the central rivalry makes no sense, having something to do with Batman’s (Ben Affleck) jealousy over Superman’s godlike powers and Luthor’s intricately facile efforts to manipulate them against one another. It takes the filmmaker almost 90 minutes, for instance, to establish that Lex Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg) has obtained kryptonite for which to kill Superman (Henry Cavill).

Snyder weds astonishing formality with a plot that’s so feeble and uninvolving it nearly renders the effort contextually ludicrous and beside the point. The film wants to be a treatise on How We Live, dabbling in incredible religious iconography and glancing infrastructural signifiers, yet it can’t commit to any specific view for fear of alienating consumers. One can feel Snyder aiming for an obsessive masterpiece while attempting to please investors with the expository generality that’s required of global blockbusters. Snyder blends two famous comics, The Dark Knight Returns and The Death of Superman, together with a convoluted geopolitical narrative that’s borrowed from Christopher Nolan’s Batman films. Director Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is an overstuffed sketchbook of ideas for a half-dozen potentially striking superhero adventures.

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