***Spoiler Alert, this is about Batman vs Superman. If you have not seen it, avoid this review. *****
The movie starts out in the final moments of Man of Steel, except we are in Bruce Wayne's vantage point, he's racing through Metropolis as buildings are crumbling around him left and right. Bruce's boss\friend is last to leave a building that is half chopped by eye lasers, killing his pal and thus his hatred of Superman is born. (It was actually General Zods eye lasers, using them -uncontrolled- for the first time).
The movie has three or four dream sequences. Some of them are dumb, like Batman floating out of a well by a swarm of bats, and one is crazy....Superman has a legion of mercenaries and Batman tries to fight them off only to get his chest punched in by Supes....(???? Why ????). ... and some that you have to research unless you're the worlds biggest DC fan. The guy yelling in an electrical void for Batman is The Flash. I had to look it up.
Anyway.....Lex Luger, I mean Luthor is trying to frame Superman. He sets up a terrorist thing in the desert and people die while Superman saves Louis Lane. Anyway.....Lex Luthor (acting too much like The Joker by the way) then plants a massive bomb inside a wheelchair so it kills everyone in a Parliament building while Superman is on trial. Superman in this scene is left with a -Doh- expression as he stands inside the burning room, he failed to detect the bomb. I would think a second or third cut would've helped, maybe get Superman to look like he gave a fuck....moving on.
Lex Luthor is not done, he gets his hands on General Zods corpse, he also acquires time inside a crashed alien ship that is close to Metropolis Bay. He also kidnaps Superman's mom so Superman will kill Batman...(WTF??? Why??? What does Lex Luthor have against Batman suddenly).
Going off base a little, let's rewind back to Batman after he had his fucked up Superman dream. His stolen
Hard drive thing he got at a Lex party shows Icons of other DC heroes like The Flash, Wonder Woman, Aquaman and somebody else. This is a tidbit to make the Dawn of Justice make sense...(as well as Batman's ending conversation with Wonder Woman)...
Back to Luthor, he dips Zods body in an alien pool inside the alien ship and adds his own blood to it. I assume the ship told him how to do this off screen. He was chatting with the ship earlier.
Now we finally get Batman vs Superman. Batman vs Superman is stupid on paper right? How could Batman even last ten seconds against the indestructable alien himself? Its just a bad match up to me. Anyway the answer is....Batman is way smarter than Superman. He got prepared, he set up traps, he put himself in heavy armor, he built a Cryptonite spear, Cryptnite exploding bullets and whatnot. They fight.....
......and Batman wins! Batman has Superman down, ( cut cheek and all) with a boot on his neck and the spear raised for the final kill. Louis Lane saves Superman's life.
Lex Luthor raises DOOMSDAY from his earlier experiment. Doomsday is one powerful son of a bitch. He battles Superman into space and both take a direct NUKE blast by humans and Doomsday survives. Superman is revived by the sun. Batman (in the best moment of the film) rescues Superman's mom from a bunch of thugs. Now the rest of the film, Batman is pretty much useless because he has no superpowers to even stand a chance against Doomsday.
Anyway....Wonder Woman and Superman defeat Doomsday (with the slightest help from a Cryptonite bullet from Batman) and Superman gets skewered in the process. Superman dies at the same time as Doomsday. Batman talks to Wonder Woman, yells at Lex in jail...movie over.
The final battle was splashed in heavy, heavy C.G.I and was really underwhelming. That was supposed to be the big moments of the film and it was just done under layers and layers of ho hum special effects. For crying out loud, why couldn't Doomsday be a big animatronic instead of pure C.G.I. It would've looked WAY better.
Casting decision for Lex Luthor was a mistake in my opinion. The guy came off like The Joker (minus laughing) instead of Lex Luthor. Worst Luthor yet. Ben Afleck as Batman was not bad.
In the end, if I had to give this a final rating it would be a 5/10. I liked the worlds view of Superman during the first half of the movie. One too many dream sequences, heavy C.G.I fighting is underwhelming to me for some reason. I know its necessary but it doesn't come close to fooling the mind's realism eye. I liked Man of Steel better than this, but not much. DC has got work to do.