A lot of criticism in particular was thrown Affleck’s way when the casting was announced but hes responded with a well rounded performance. Performance wise Ben Affleck and Gal Gadot stand out and are the most convincing. This sort of shot is where Snyder shines and there are a few dotted throughout. There’s a shot right at the start when going through Batman’s origin in the opening credits where the mugger goes to take Martha Wayne’s pearls and they are caught around the gun which then fires in slow motion, the recoil of the barrel breaking the necklace and spilling pearls everywhere. Snyder not only has an eye for big style mayhem but also can bring the best out of the smaller moments too. There are also some cool shots throughout. Stylistically everything looked on point, the set pieces was mostly good fun to watch and Snyder’s trademark pallet of vibrant, almost neon colours contrasting with darkness suit the characters and the Gotham/Metropolis vibe. This is Zack Snyder’s biggest downfall and goes further to support the opinion that he is just a style over substance director.įor his failings of managing the plot Snyder does make up for with the aesthetics of DoJ. There’s a really good reason Marvel does this in the post credit scenes of their films and it is so it doesn’t fuck with the flow of the movie. Then there’s a Wonder Woman plot shoehorned in in between all this and it’s around two thirds of the way through they seemed to have forgotten that they needed to set up the Justice League and so threw some stuff in there to tease future films. The Wonder Woman stuff is actually quite good but it just doesn’t have any relevance to what is going on and is just there for the sake of growing the Justice League Universe. About an hour through though the plot changes and Lex Luthor is now involved for reasons that I’m still not sure of, and events start move away from what the first half of the film was about.
Bruce Wayne wanting to take him down after seeing one of Wayne Towers destroyed is done is a pretty convincing way to complement this and that too is also fine.
There are those who want Superman to be held accountable for his actions and Clark Kent is having a crisis of conscience over whether he can keep doing what he is doing and at what cost. The biggest problem with Dawn of Justice (DoJ) is that its narrative is scattershot at best and ridiculously unbelievable at worst. It was always going to be difficult not to go into this film with high levels of expectation and this ends up being to the movies detriment. Lagging behind Marvel (in terms of success as well as time) DC is finally starting to catch up and brings together arguably the two biggest comic book names there has ever been.
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Post destruction Superman is also being vilified by the media & government and outcry is being made for him to also stand trial and be held responsible for the collateral damage he has caused. Dawn of Justice starts during the climax of Man of Steel where we see the Superman vs Zod fight from Bruce Wayne’s perspective and after one of his towers is decimated in metropolis he starts on the path to tracking and putting down Superman.