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458 out of 581 people found the following review useful:

The best superhero movie of all time (no spoilers)

Author: thegamerknightofficial from United States
19 March 2016

So, I saw BvS at an early screening, and it was easily the best superhero movie of all time, even better than "The Dark Knight." I went into the theater with already really high expectations, and the movie was even better than I expected. Yeah, the movie is pretty dark. It's darker than the Nolan trilogy, so that should give you a pretty good taste of what's to come. There are a few jokes here and there. Ben Affleck's performance as Batman was AMAZING. The best Batman yet. This one can actually fight, unlike Keaton's Batman who relied nearly solely on gadgets, and Bale's Batman whose fighting looked really dumb. For real, though, Affleck needs to win an Oscar for Best Actor. Eisenberg's performance as Lex Luthor was brilliant. Cavill's performance as Superman was pretty much the same as his performance in Man of Steel. His performance as Clark Kent was very accurate to the comics. Every other member of the cast did great, too, but those were the performances that stood out (Irons was great as Alfred, too).

The movie is ACTION PACKED. The fight between Batman and Superman was amazing. The way the fight was choreographed was beyond anything we've ever seen before. It's any fanboy's dream come true. As for the length of the fight: The true fight is longer than the Hulkbuster vs. Hulk battle in "Avengers: Age of Ultron." The reason I say TRUE fight is because there are technically two fights (sort of). One is a Batmobile chase (the end of it was the "Do You Bleed?" scene we saw featured in Conan), and the other one is the Dark Knight Returns-reminiscent fight (yeah, the one where Batman fights Superman in the armor). I'm not going to spoil who wins, but they both throw some pretty devastating punches at one another.

In the middle of writing this review, I forgot to mention Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman. I was a little worried about the accent, but she managed to hide it so that she gave us the Wonder Woman performance we've all been waiting for. She was pretty damn good (not as good as Eisenberg or Affleck, but good).

No crucial part of the film was revealed before the screenings or the movie's release. The visuals look amazing (except for one particular scene, where the CGI looked like trash). Overall, definitely a 10/10 film.

270 out of 322 people found the following review useful:

A much greater improvement on MOS 5X better.

Author: corde1 from Washington State, USA
19 March 2016

I am drawn back to when this movie was first announced and how I despised the notion of a Batman V Superman film a la Freddy vs Jason, Alien vs Predator and so on. It all seemed like a huge gimmick to me and I expected the worst for this movie. Fast forward a couple years, I am sitting down at a private screening, the lights go down and the movies opens up. The opening sequence was not what I expected but shows Snyder's visual creativity in a similar manner as he did with the opening sequence of Watchmen.

We are hearkened to the Black Zero Event, only we see it from Bruce Wayne's perspective as shown in some of the trailers. I love that Snyder uses Bruce's as the eyes of the audience to get an outside perspective of the surrounding madness and destruction, and he does it very effectively. You are mad at these beings, you feel the terror, the confusion the anger for them bringing there war here, it plays out with spectacle and sadness.

I had reported a rumor about Scoot Macnairy's characters months back and was called out by Ocelot and others several times on things I reported, well turns out it was true. Something tragic happens at the hearing and it is our insight of how cunning and vicious this Lex Luthor is.

The overall story is well woven and much better than MOS, you can definitely breathe a sigh of relief in that Terrio does a great job of crafting this all together. The movie is a visual tour de force as we have come to expect with Snyder but let me just say that his directing has also improved. For those who moaned about the shaky cam and muted colors, they will be pleased. Performance wise. EVERYONE does an outstanding job, the standouts to me were Affleck, Eissenberg and Gadot. I was not on the Ben, Gal, Jesse hate wagon, though I found Eissenberg's casting questionable but I felt he had shown that he has some capable range of pulling it off. Affleck is Bruce Wayne, Affleck is Batman, talk about casting redemption. Similar to Reynolds, GL>Deadpool. Affleck should no longer be bogged with complaints about Daredevil.

For those that hated on Gadot, suck it, she owns the role in every way possible, she really has stepped up her acting game as well. The woman has presence as Diana, grace and beauty and as Wonder Woman, she is truly a Goddess. People were moaning about Gail's size, forget that nonsense, she proves she does not need bulking muscles to be a warrior and her fight scenes are exceptional, makes Faora look like she was waltzing. Eissenberg, well well well. Let me first say I thought the best versions of Luthor were from the Lois and Clark and Smalville TV shows but Jesse brings something totally new to the game.

Jesse plays his Luthor like a true devil. He is deceiving, manipulative, conniving, that line the Devil will do it, he is referring to himself to me. I could not help but see him like a Lucifer in his role and wondered if Jesse kind of based playing his character that way. Everyone else support wise was absolutely great. I do not want to write a long report of praises so let me see if I can cap off before getting on my flight. The fight set up was a little weak but boy the pay off was spectacular. Cavill I feel needs to step up a little more, granted he was wonderful but he was out shined. He needs to get beyond that distraught expression that he likes to use because he does it to death in this and I found that annoying.

The other member intro's were great and will have you all pumped for the JLA, the Knightmare scene was horrific and impactful and made me smile like a little geek. The final fight was amazing. Never in a CBM have we seen anything like it, yes I said it NEVER and lastly, I will say the movie does end on a heart wrenching note but a wink in the end. I loved it gave it a 9 and looking forward to seeing it again next week. If you guys have any questions ask I am going to be on a plane for the next 6-7 hours so will try to respond. I may have exaggerated about it being 10X better than MOS but I will say 5X better.

276 out of 405 people found the following review useful:

Although it's a great movie, don't go to the cinema with crazy expectations

Author: Areeb Khan
19 March 2016

Definitely a step-up from Man of Steel. First of all, I was a bit skeptical about this movie, and thought the runtime (about 2 and a half hours) was way too long (and I wasn't completely wrong though). The action scenes were better than what we saw in the trailer. Although there was one scene where the CGI was terrible (you'll know it when you'll see it), but overall I was happy. The movie had a lot crazy-packed action (it was directed by Zack Snyder, what do ya expect?) and the plot knew where it was going. A lot of scenes were a treat for me to see and I got goosebumps watching them. There was more to Jesse Eisenberg than what I saw (and hated, like most people) in the trailer. I made a bet to my friend that he'll suck in the movie, guess I'll have to pay up. He really WAS good. But just like any other movie, it's not perfect and has flaws. You can see that Zack tried hard very hard to fit everything nicely into the movie, but over stuffing was bound to happen (Don't worry, wasn't as stuffed as AoU was) Other than that, I think there are some extreme fan-boys/haters who'll never be satisfied no matter how good the movie is. Hope my review didn't give away any spoilers in any way whatsoever, and that you end up enjoying the movie as much as (or more than) I did.

154 out of 192 people found the following review useful:

A complete package

Author: gadme from United Kingdom
20 March 2016

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Boy oh Boy....this was a great experience....I have to say after Man of Steel (which was okay but by no means great), I didn't have much expectations from this, and to top it off the castings for this film had set the comic book fans on fire. But tell you what, this is epic. Some people are even calling it better than the Dark Knight, while I wouldn't go that far, I would still call this a complete package. Affleck's Batman is AMAZING. His Bruce Wayne is not as cool and casual as Christian Bale's but he doesn't need to considering this is a relatively old Batman who has seen some very dark times. His partnership with Jeremy Irons adds some much needed lightness to the movie. Cavill delivered the dialogues during the fight scene with Batman in a near perfect way. Gal Gadot had a much bigger role to play than seen in the trailers. And Jesse was good in a complex way. Fans have to understand that his Luthor is not muscular as compared to what we have seen in previous Superman movies His Luthor is an evil genius who does a great job of pitting the two giants against each other. Jesse played the role to his strengths as he should have. Contrary to the popular perception(especially after the third trailer) that the whole movie was spoil-ed, the plot was way more deeper than we imagined. The only issues were a fight scene where CGI looked dull and maybe, just maybe a bit over stuffing. But overall, this is EPIC.

149 out of 187 people found the following review useful:

Ben Affleck!!!

Author: fero_king-65322 from United States
19 March 2016

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Affleck as Bruce Wayne/Batman was pure awesome and dark. You can see he's traumatized by the events in the past, and he has some fantastic lines in general (Yes we see the whole parents thing again). Nobody should really be surprised that he was good with the role considering he's a solid actor, but I thought he was great. Versus Bale? That's a interesting question, because Affleck definitely regards Batman as a permanent part of his persona, while in Nolan series he eventually doesn't want Batman. In combat he's pretty much everything everyone would hope for from a film with Batman. One comment on the latest BvS trailer said he fought like the Arkham video games from a scene they showed. That's a good comparison. He's incredible in fights. Also the way Snyder records him in action, you can actually see him fighting unlike the Nolan films, which I'd imagine would make many people happy. He also gets a chance to use his detective skills, do not worry. Also his relationship with Irons, who plays Alfred, is just wonderful in general. Irons was exceptional in the role (Its Jeremy Irons for Christ's sake, of course he nailed the role) gets some witty lines and also gets pretty emotional later on. He didn't get a lot of screen time, just enough to be effective. Always passing advice to Batman.

131 out of 166 people found the following review useful:

Amazed, Favourite superhero film of this year.

Author: Robbie Graham
20 March 2016

Once a movie that i was extremely nervous about stepping into, just happened to turn out to be my favorite superhero movie, and probably will for years to come, very interesting aspect of the movie was using the flaws of the first installment of the comic book universe and building upon those mishaps to create a much better - more compelling story, Another aspect that really stood out was the dialogue, which you, the viewer can really tell has been improved, Thanks to Chris Terrio.

Though these aspects of the film were really well done what really pulled me in to the movie was the performances by the the actors, mainly Jesse Eisenberg and Ben Affleck's Performances, they really grabbed your attention through a large amount of the scene's showing really great character development from both, also to add i wasn't expecting much from Gal Gadot, shocking to think, as her performance was fantastic -shocking- also to add she really had some great fight scenes that really hooked me, there wasn't a dull moment through out the hole movie, and also fast paste

The cinematography used in the movie is fantastic, and i believe some of these moment within the film will be with us for some time, Overall can't say anymore great things about this movie, it's left me speechless.

200 out of 306 people found the following review useful:

The greatest and best movie superhero of the story.

Author: joankgfernandes from Brazil
20 March 2016

It is with great honor that I have seen the best movie superhero history, surpassing even The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan's trilogy. Ben Affleck is impressive, his Bruce Wayne becomes a darker atmosphere and your Batman is alarmingly great. By far the best fight sequences involving Batman of all time. Tears flowed from my eyes. It is a more violent Batman, more visceral, managed to give the public more excitement. Certainly the best Batman to date. Henry Cavill is excellent, their faces and mouths as superman are the best of the film, and the dialogue between him and the Dark Knight are also epic. Lex Luthor is certainly the most complex character in the film, which evolves during the plot, Jesse Einseberg was the right choice. Gal Gadot is beautiful, case- with me, please !!! Only after she joins Batman and Superman in the fight against the Apocalypse, is worth for all the superhero movies together. Epic!!!! Holly Hunter is great, Jeremy Irons as Alfred too; no wonder they are two Oscar winners. It's the kind of film you see and review in theaters.

129 out of 169 people found the following review useful:

Like poetry. (First 10/10 I have ever given).

Author: Setman428 from United States
20 March 2016

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I am utterly astonished. Watched the U.S. premiere of this movie; it's absolutely one of the best comic movies ever made. Whatever Zack smoked while making this epic masterpiece, I want some.

All the actors exceed your expectations. Laughed at the absurdity of Jesse Eisenberg playing Luthor? Laughed at the pathetic Ben Affleck playing the Caped Crusader? All of you fanboys are so horribly wrong. Eisenberg is at his best. He's the most sinister and brilliant Lex we've ever seen. More a conniving weasel than a real estate mogul. Affleck gives one of his most thought-provoking roles. This movie is art. It deserves Oscars. Also kudos to Zimmer. His score is both haunting and epic at the same time.

The direction is absolutely fantastic. Zack masterfully blends shots in a poetic way. The pacing is absolutely better than other comic book movies; we see things build up to this great, epic, brawl instead of getting bits and spurts. It makes the overall payoff much, much better. This movie feels like a Greek epic come to the big screen. Terrio's writing style and Ben Affleck's assistance come shining through the screenplay, which will silence the Man of Steel haters. The flow of the narrative is smooth. There is humor, there is wit. There is mythos, there is sadness. There is even a lot of subtle political commentary that Terrio sneaks in. You will feel many, many emotions while watching this. I also have to mention that the third act is easily the apex of comic-book-dom. It feels like a hodge podge of some of the greatest moments in comics brushed onto the canvas of this movie.

Zack's done it guys. He's made a darn masterpiece. We should thank this man. He's created this year's Mad Max. A blockbuster movie that exceeds even the strongest naysayer's expectations. It's everything we wanted in a comic book movie but more.

P.S. Marvel's movies don't hold a candle to this one. D.C. has their Empire Strikes Back.

128 out of 171 people found the following review useful:

Best movie based on comics of all time.

Author: mayarafisioterapia from United States
20 March 2016

I had the opportunity to watch the movie , this weekend and all I have to say: AWESOME !!! Until then my favorite movies of comics were Batman The Dark Knight , Watchmen , The Avengers , and The Dark Knight at the top of that list. This weekend things have changed , Batman v Superman won the throne. The film deals with philosophical, theological , geopolitical and you dive into the psyche of heroes, their questions , their fears , nightmares, its place in the world and the consequences. Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor is at a level similar to Joker Heat Ledger. The special effects are fantastic !! The soundtrack too. Loved Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman , she definitely steals the show . Jeremy Irons is great, Finch senator also . But the best of the film really is Batman Ben Affleck , something never before seen in the history of cinema. Yes, and before I forget , Henry Cavill , I love you !!!

127 out of 170 people found the following review useful:

A new Era of Comic Book Movies, Batman V Superman Surpases All Expectations

Author: Dion Sheppard from Canada
19 March 2016

I have to admit, before going into the theater for this pre screening, I knew it would be good, I didn't know it would be amazing. Batman V Superman is a fresh of breath air in the live action comic book genre. I remember all the hatrid before this movie came out and all the nit picking, well, all of that got washed away with this masterpiece. Let me first point out Ben Affleck's performance as Batman/ Bruce Wayne Surpases all the previous before him. Cavil is Superman, kills it as Clark Kent, very true interpretation to the comics. Jesse Eisenberg, no words can explain how deep this character is and how wonderful of a job Eisenberg does as Luthor. Wonder Woman is fearsome. The action is epic, the story is rich and I can happily say I will be seeing this again and again, hopefully I did not spoil anything as I want to everyone to have as good as a time as I did.

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