This is a spoiler talk, so if you don't want to get spoiled or you don't mind about it, you have been warned!
My non-spoiler review that this movie is not as bad as the reviewers says about it, but it's not as good as the fanboy says about it. But it's entertaining to watch! if you haven't watched it, go watch it!
So let's dive into it shall we?
This movie opens up with the obligatory Bruce Wayne's parents death scene, and then it jumps to the scene in Man of Steel where Superman fights Zod on Metropolis and destroys like 80% of the city.
I think Superman is going to be an overpowered unlock-able character in Rampage game (I loved that game seriously haha)
So Bruce Wayne rushed into the Metropolis and told the PIC on his office to evacuate all the employee on the building. But when Bruce arrived there, it was too late...
He saw his office building crumbling because of Superman's laser eye
Before we continue let's compare one small thing here.
Here's the difference between normal human and Bruce Wayne
Normal People
>building is falling down
>runs away from the falling building
Bruce Wayne
>his office building is falling down
>he runs INTO the building because he wants to save his employee
Badassery and selflessness we saw there, ladies and gentlemen!
After that, he saw his employee's feet getting crushed by steel while screaming "I can't feel my legs"
and he saw one of little girl who wants to meet her mom in the office, and he holds her right in the time before the debris dropped onto her.
And he holds her while menacingly looking at Superman & Zod's fight.
that
was a good opening scene!
in here we can see Batman's reason to fight Superman. Many people died because of his fight with Zod.
and then we switch to Lois Lane getting somewhere in, I dunno, middle-east location *I forgot* lol.
And she was kinda hold hostage and apparently it was a setup by the CIA to frame Superman. Superman saved Lois Lane, again.
and then some lovey dovey scene between Clark Kent and Lois Lane.of course it is censored here in Indonesia haha
My non-spoiler review that this movie is not as bad as the reviewers says about it, but it's not as good as the fanboy says about it. But it's entertaining to watch! if you haven't watched it, go watch it!
So let's dive into it shall we?
This movie opens up with the obligatory Bruce Wayne's parents death scene, and then it jumps to the scene in Man of Steel where Superman fights Zod on Metropolis and destroys like 80% of the city.
I think Superman is going to be an overpowered unlock-able character in Rampage game (I loved that game seriously haha)
So Bruce Wayne rushed into the Metropolis and told the PIC on his office to evacuate all the employee on the building. But when Bruce arrived there, it was too late...
He saw his office building crumbling because of Superman's laser eye
Before we continue let's compare one small thing here.
Here's the difference between normal human and Bruce Wayne
Normal People
>building is falling down
>runs away from the falling building
Bruce Wayne
>his office building is falling down
>he runs INTO the building because he wants to save his employee
Badassery and selflessness we saw there, ladies and gentlemen!
After that, he saw his employee's feet getting crushed by steel while screaming "I can't feel my legs"
and he saw one of little girl who wants to meet her mom in the office, and he holds her right in the time before the debris dropped onto her.
and he said "where's your mommy? Don't worry, I'll find her"
and she cried while pointing to the wrecked building. Her mom obviously didn't survive that.And he holds her while menacingly looking at Superman & Zod's fight.
"I swear to god, I will make you bleed, Superman!"
that
was a good opening scene!
in here we can see Batman's reason to fight Superman. Many people died because of his fight with Zod.
and then we switch to Lois Lane getting somewhere in, I dunno, middle-east location *I forgot* lol.
And she was kinda hold hostage and apparently it was a setup by the CIA to frame Superman. Superman saved Lois Lane, again.
and then some lovey dovey scene between Clark Kent and Lois Lane.of course it is censored here in Indonesia haha
tbh Superman's part of story was not really interesting to me haha
And after some exposition and political issues on Superman's presence in the Earth, we finally introduced to Lex Luthor, I watched Christopher Reeve's Superman and watched a few episodes of Smallville when I was a kid, But I know for sure, this is a very different Lex Luthor that we used to know. He is not a corporate bastard anymore (well he is in this movie, but less corporate vibe here) He is kind of a psychotic/spastic/OCD/atheist main antagonist now. Many people said that he is a miscast, but honestly I'm okay with this Lex Luthor. A breath of fresh air.
u mad bro?
He proposed to the Senator to asks for permission to import the Kryptonite to his lab in order to make a "deterrent" to the Kryptonian aka Superman
We switched to Bruce Wayne again, he is currently looking for "White Portuguese" which he believes that he has the weapon that must be stopped. or that what's he told us/Alfred so we believe that he is into something completely different with the story. But later on Alfred knows that Bruce is after something big, which is killing Superman with Kryptonite!
Btw, this Alfred is the best sassy/sarcastic Alfred ever! He delivers some sarcastic one-liner that made me laugh through out the Movie.
"I'm not great at the advice, Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?"
And then we switched to Lois Lane again that apparently found that the bullet that pierced her note is not registered everywhere, and she looked everywhere to find where the hell does that bullet came from. Later on, she found out that the bullet is made by Lexcorp.
and my question is, so what? That bullet can't hurt Superman. does that really matter here?
Bruce Wayne suspected that Lex Luthor could be the White Portuguese that he's been looking for, and he wanted to sneak in to Lex's house as Batman, but Alfred was like
"nah bro! you don't need to, just go there, here's an invitation to the event in there"
and he goes there to hack the computer to get some encrypted information from Lex Luthor's house. And he met Clark Kent there, and he was interviewed by Clark Kent. and he asked
"Bruce Wayne, what's your position on Batman vigilante?"
and Bruce was like
"bruh, seriously?"
at that scene, Clark Kent already suspects Bruce Wayne as Batman, because he can hear the communication between Alfred and Bruce from Bruce's earpiece. Alfred told that the data transfer is already completed. so yeah, he runs to the computer room, but he can't find it there, and he saw outside, and there's a mysterious woman who took it from him. and she runs away with Bruce's hard drive.
later on, Lex Luthor's request to the senator regarding the kryptonite import was rejected. and he threatens the senator about it.
Lex Luthor is very menacing on this scene!
later on, Bruce Wayne manages to find the mysterious girl who stole his hard drive, apparently she is looking a photo of her on that Lex Luthor's computer. she told him that she put the hard drive on his car.
That scene with that mysterious woman, reminds me of Catwoman and Bruce Wayne scene in The Dark Knight Rises.
After he arrived at the batcave, he decrypts the data that he got. While decrypting it, Bruce fell asleep.
Ok, honestly this is the part where it goes, WTF happened!?
this part is a setup to the Justice League. If you don't know Justice League, it's an equivalent of Avengers to the Marvel universe
I think this part is kinda out of place since it doesn't add up anything to the story, and it runs around 15-20 mins. This could be better if this was a trailer to the Justice League. better not shown at all at this movie.
Bruce finally woke up and found that white portugese was a ship, not a person. And he rushed himself to go there. He placed a tracer to the container that contains the Kryptonite. I dunno why he have to chase it after he placed the tracer. but who cares, there's a smokin' sick badass car chase scene between Batman and Lex Luthor's thugs!
and then, I don't know why, suddenly Superman showed up and stopped Batman and tear his batmobile apart.
It just doesn't make sense here, it looks like that he is protecting Lex, and why did he suddenly told Batman "Turn off the batsignal, your bat days are over, consider this as a warning!"
like
why??
what's the reason he tell that to Batman?
and then Batman replies with that epic line, yes, that epic line
It IS a badass line,
but still, it doesn't make any sense, why would Superman say that to Batman.
and finally Bruce Wayne found out that the Kryptonite is stored at the Lexcorp's HQ.
And then Superman finally get summoned to the court to be questioned about his motives when he fought crime and saving people, does that act was on his own will or based on government's will.
Lex Luthor set things up to frame Superman by blow the shit out of that courthouse. after that, Lex Luthor went back to his company, and he found out that his Kryptonite is stolen by Batman.
Finally we came down to the moment of truth, Batman v Superman, yay!
Batman already set things up in Gotham, he made a spear out of Kryptonite in order to kill Superman. The thing is,
Superman still have no reason to fight Batman until now, but Lex Luthor wants to made him fight Batman.
First thing first, he kidnapped Lois Lane and push her out of her building, and Superman saved her, again,
and then he told Superman that he got Superman's mother kidnapped, if Superman didn't bring Batman's head to him in 1 hour, Superman's mom will die!
I find it kind of weird, Lex and Batman didn't cooperate on this, but why did he know that Batman is going to fight Superman at that exact day? I know that he set up to provoke Batman by using his ex-employee that loses both of his legs since that superman incident 2 years ago, Lex didn't know about Superman who told Batman to turn off his batsignal. And now Batman turning on his signal to call Superman to fight, isn't that weird? how did Lex know about all this?
So both of them finally have the reason to fight each other. and you know what, Batman kicks ass here, and when he almost deliver the final blow to Superman while holding the Kryptonite spear,
Superman shouts to him,
"You're going to let them kill Martha!"
and to Batman's surprise, he replies
"WHY DO YOU SAY THAT NAME!?"
and Lois Lane told him that it is her mother's name.
It's a good coincidence that their mother shares the same first name, my dad was confused at first and he told me that "What, they're brothers?" that could have been the best plot twist ever in 2K16
and then Batman throws the spear and didn't kill Superman, and he promises Superman to save Martha for him and he will deal with Lex by himself.
at this time I was like
wow
they're bros now,
their fight ended just like that.
if only Superman manages to tell him sooner before they fight, there won't be any fight between them, and this movie title would be very misleading hahahahaha
you know this conflict is actually can be avoided if they talked things through before they fight, but that won't please any comic book fans, we want to watch our biggest nerd wet dream by looking at two iconic superhero from DC comics smash each other!
later on, Batman saves Martha, and yes he is very badass, my friend told me that that scene was like the Arkham Knight style of fighting. I have to play it if I can.
Superman meets Lex, and Lex created Doomsday on Zod's ship
oh I forgot to mention something's bothering me
in the first act of the movie, Lex cuts zod's fingerprint and in the last act of the movie he brought Zod's body to the ship. And he used that fingerprint that he cut in the first act to enter ship
why did he do that? why doesn't he just use Zod's hand to enter the ship? it's really inconvenient for him to be honest.
And Doomsday fights Superman, and Superman brought him to the atmosphere, and for some military reason, they decided to NUKE Superman and Doomsday there.
I mean,
why should they do that? they think the casualties would be only Superman, but it IS still on earth, and that nuke will have some serious radiation contamination on the atmosphere. and apparently President of America agreed to launch that nuke,
wow
can you remind me again that we have global warming issues right now?
hahaha
but who cares about that, as long as we see flashy fight amirite?
Doomsday falls into the earth, and superman floats on the atmosphere
Batman says that Doomsday is a kryptonian, so the thing that only be used to kill him is Kryptonite.
this is where things gets so out of hand on this movie
After Batman and Superman's fight, Lois Lane threw away the Kryptonite spear to the pond.
Yes, she was like "yeah, that thing is dangerous for my bae, I just throw 'em out on this pond!"
and when Batman says that, Lois Lane wanted that spear back,
"oh may gawd, my bae's besties needs this spear to defeat that thing, better take that spear out of from that pond!"
Superman returns from the atmosphere and suddenly Wonder Woman showed up, yes apparently that mysterious woman was Wonder Woman all along!
and the three of them, oh no, 2 of them (Batman can't fight Doomsday head on since he is too stronk!) fight Doomsday
while fighting Doomsday, Lois Lane was trapped on the pond because there's a debris that falls on to the pond, and thankfully Superman hears her almost died there.
and Superman saves her, again, for the n-th time. goddammit lane, she's nothing but a damsel on distress!
Superman sacrifices himself by lounges the spear on Doomsday heart, and Doomsday stabbed him. And the result is
double KO!
both of them dies..
yes
Superman is dead!
another thing that bothers me, why didn't Superman asked Wonder Woman to stab Doomsday with the kryptonian spear while he hold Doomsday? Superman's death could be avoided!
Lex finally got bald in the prison, and Batman warns him that he always look for him if he did something bad again.
Right at the end of the movie, we saw Superman's coffin there's some pebbles are lifting, and yeah...
he is not dead...
whew
that was a long ass post that I write there,
here's the tl;dr version
The good
- A good cinematography, and well directed shots, intense and awesome fighting/car chase scene
- Ben Affleck is the best Batman: At first, I have doubt that he will be a good Batman, but he is indeed the best thing from this movie, he gives his best for this role! and yes he is the most brutal Batman ever.About the "no-killing" policy which what makes Batman is Batman, he totally killed a lot of thugs in this movie, but he mentioned to Alfred that he didn't think that he is a hero. "We're criminals, Alfred, we always are!" I know Batman should be a morally conflicted character since he is a borderline between a hero and a criminal, but in this movie, he clearly stated that they are criminals, so I'm totally okay with this brutal Batman who killed thugs.
- Hans Zimmer's score! Especially when Wonder Woman shows up!
The Bad
- As you can see on this post, yes, the plot is a scatter mess and didn't really linked up to one and another. So much things happened in this movie!
- They tried to set up the Justice League, but it seems like out of place and context in the movie, they should have made a post credit scene or make a trailer out of it
- Lack of character development: especially Superman, his character is still the same on Man of Steel
- Lois Lane : welp, she is a damsel in distress who did some stupid things and tries to be relevant to the plot. and she did almost nothing to the story
- Lex Luthor's motive to hate Superman is unclear. Is there any particular reason why he hates Superman so much in this movie? I don't think so
I honestly entertained watching this movie despite of the flaws and the problem on this movie, it could have been better. One thing for sure, this movie is much more watchable than Transformers : Age of Extinction.
okay guys, this is the end of the post, I hope you enjoyed this long ass spoiler talk on this movie
Thanks for reading!
