Review Of The Movie Batman Vs Superman
The film I will be reviewing is “Batman vs Superman”. The summary of this movie is about two heroes with two different ideologies of justice seeking to find their worth within society.
Batman, a veteran vigilante from Gotham City sees Superman as humanity’s biggest threat after the destructive battle that took place in Metropolis two years ago against General Zod, which injured and killed thousands of civilians. Because of this catastrophe, Batman will stop at nothing to ensure Superman’s death. However, Superman feels the same way about Batman as he prints out Daily Planet articles criticizing Batman’s sense of “justice” by using torture as a method to punish criminals. The two are eventually brought into conflict by Lex Luthor as he orchestrates events behind the scenes to sabotage Superman’s image within society and by sending cryptic messages to Batman. Although, Lex Luthor’s plan fails as Batman and Superman resolve their issues after a long standing fight, he uses his trump card by creating an experimented monster from General Zod’s corpse named Doomsday to wreak havoc across Metropolis. Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman eventually stop Doomsday but at the expense of Superman’s life. After Superman’s death, Batman blames himself for being selfish and tells Wonder Woman that he needs to form a group of meta humans to combat the evil Lex Luthor was hinting at him while interrogating him at Arkham Asylum.
The part of the film that intrigued me was the camera. I’ll give two examples from two scenes in which this convention was used heavily the film. The first scene in which the camera was used excessively was the meeting between Lex Luthor and Superman on top of the Lex tower. The camera captures the classic comic book cliché of when a hero finally confronts the villain. The camera zooms into Superman’s anger, as he expresses distain towards Lex Luthor for threatening and using Lois Lane as an access to reel him in. After that, angles are shown back and forth towards Luthor and Superman as Lex gives his speech to Superman. The camera focuses between the facial expressions between these two characters. Superman is ambivalent towards Lex Luthor as he vehemently scolds him for simply existing in a world where he believed that he was the savior and not some alien deity. Another scene I liked was the “warehouse scene”, it captured the definitive version of Batman as he showed no mercy foisting pain towards his foes while trying to rescue Martha. The time element that was implemented in the scene was splendid as well as it captivated on Batman’s combat ability in slow motion and it displayed a sense of realism in each punch or kick Batman inflicted on his foes. When I watched either of these two scenes from the film, it felt like it was precisely adapted like it was in the comics and it feels like you were existing within the film’s open world.
Batman vs Superman exemplifies the Comic Book genre. Although Batman vs Superman in my opinion was pretty average and some of the plot points were poorly executed, it was a fun movie that captured larger than life fictional characters on the big screen. Superman is portrayed as he was in the comics, an alien from a different planet trying to help society despite negative and positive feedbacks from critics and having a strong romantic bond with Lois Lane. There are different versions of Batman in the comics, but in this movie he is a 20 year veteran vigilante who has seen the horrors throughout his life and believes he’s the jury, judge and executioner for all criminals in the world. Batman has witnessed Robin’s death by The Joker and Harvey Dent’s tragic transformation to Two-Face (easter egg) and believes that if he doesn’t stop Superman it will be his biggest failure as a crime fighter. Lex Luthor is slightly depicted differently as he was in the comics, he is much younger and has long hair but his ideologies is basically the same as it was in the comics. Although throughout the film we don’t know much about Wonder Woman, she is portrayed as an experienced warrior who lived for around 800 years and as a viewer I can pretty much tell that she saw the advancement of modern civilization.
Batman vs Superman adapted everything in the comic book genre and it was sprinkled in with real life perceptions as it teaches us about morals and how society views certain people of importance.
