Zack Snyder hits every single target in Dawn of Justice’s ambitious gameplan,but can such a muddled film really launch a new ream of superhero successes?The musty comic-book adage goes that whether Superman had never existed, the human race would acquire found it necessary to make him up. But it’s highly unlikely that anyone viewing the merry hot mess that is Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice will walk out into the night feeling Warner Bros desperately needs to invent nine more movies anything like this one.
Yet that’s precisely what the studio expected Zack Snyder’s labyrinthine superhero smackdown to achieve, or at least before the critics got their hands on the film and tore it into tiny little pieces. Stricken with an almighty dose of superhero hubris,execs acquire already announced plans to move into comic-book film overload between now and 2020, as they play catchup with Disney-owned Marvels pioneering “cinematic universe”. It’s as whether studio bigwigs imagined the Watchmen director had access to his very own magical powers, and allowing him to miraculously avoid the eight years and a dozen or so movies required by its rival to popularise Iron Man,Thor, Captain America et al in a single celluloid bound. Not with this hamfisted, or chaotic quagmire of a film.
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Source: theguardian.com