 Opinions on Man of Steel was split down the middle. Some people loved it, some people hated it. I happened to be one that loved it thinking it was nearly a masterpiece other than a few nitpicks. And it's actually in my top 10 comic book movies of all time. And if you just want to look at action alone, just the action. I think it's the number one, the best comic book movie of all time. The now director Zack Snyder has returned to give us Batman, Be Superman, Dawn of Justice. Is it good? Is it great? Is it a dream come true? Well let's talk about it. I'm Brandon Keith-Avery and this is just my opinion. Now I'll go ahead and get this out of the way when it comes to casting. Cause when they cast Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, I was furious, I was upset, I did not know what to do. I thought that was crazy losing their minds and that this whole franchise would just fall into pieces. Saying to myself, why would you choose Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, the Amazonian princess. She cannot act. She is too slim. All you're going off for was her small little appearance in Fast Five and Fast Six. What is wrong with you? This is crazy. I was so upset thinking this was possibly one of the worst castings in the world. But I saw the film and I have to admit I was wrong. Gal Gadot did a great job as Wonder Woman and I loved it. She was actually in my opinion one of the best parts of the film. And I'm not just talking about the character herself, Wonder Woman, Gal Gadot had a few lines of dialogues and I feel that she delivered them to the best of her abilities which is great. I mean I am actually looking forward to her solo film now a lot. I really didn't care for it before. But now I'm looking more forward to her solo film that I am David Ayer, Suicide Squad that comes out in August. Yes, I did say that because I love Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman in this film. When she popped up on screen and uniforming out, people in the theater were cheering along with myself. She was fierce. She was strong. She looked badass. She looked kind of 62. And that's all I want is a strong female character that doesn't suck which I thought was going to happen with Gal Gadot but I was wrong thinking she did a great job. Another casting decision that I wasn't too thrilled with initially was Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor because just from his image alone he does not look anything like the character that I know. And when that trailer came out with him acting all corky between Bruce Wayne, Batman and Henry Cavill Superman it just didn't look appealing at all. I'm like why would you cast him as Lex Luthor? This just looks horrible. I like Jesse Eisenberg as an actor but I cannot buy him as Lex Luthor, the ultimate hater of Superman that is a genius level 12 intellect and I just wasn't buying it. But I wasn't completely in love with his portray as Lex Luthor but I did enjoy it and I am looking now forward to what they have in the future with his character. And to be honest and this is not a spoiler because this was released so much by the director and everyone involved in the film but this is not Lex Luthor. This is Lex Luthor Jr. or the son of Lex Luthor so I can't complain if it's not a straight adaptation of a character that is not supposed to be in the first place. Yes I do want them to pull elements from that father Lex Luthor senior and put it into junior and they did that and I liked it for the most part but you know overall I was happy with it I was not upset like I was going in they did a great job and I'm looking forward to what's coming in the future with Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor. Now as far as Superman is concerned Henry Cavill does a great job as Superman I mean there's really nothing much to say about him other than great job as Superman. He did a great job of man is still he did a great job here in BVS versus Superman but you know we already have Superman I want to talk about people that we haven't had like Ben Affleck as Bruce Wayne Batman. When he was cast everybody was pissed off now I wasn't thinking that Ben Affleck is a great actor if you've seen Argo if you've seen Changing Lanes if you've seen The Town you know that he's a great actor you know he knows how to put together a film hence his Oscar win for Best Picture for Argo. He wasn't my first choice I would have chose somebody else but I wasn't disappointed but Batman came through as Ben Affleck this is the best onscreen Batman that we've seen he was fierce he was bad ass and I like the look of the character now there are some things about the character that I am going to complain about later and I won't give any spoilers because they just absolutely make no sense to me but Ben Affleck feeling the role as Bruce Wayne and he's like super duper swole I mean my goodness he did a great job and I cannot wait for the solo Batman film to come out hopefully directed by Ben Affleck because that'll be one of the best pieces of cinematic entertainment and history in my opinion but Ben Affleck you did a great job as Batman and I can't wait to see more but I will talk about my complaints later on Jeremy Irons did a great job as Alfred there wasn't too much with his character but him bouncing back and forth with Batman Bruce Wayne Ben Affleck I think I did a great job and I'm looking forward to that too now the biggest sin that this film committed in my opinion is the tone and the editing because I feel that that was all over the place you have all these plots going on simultaneously trying to come together and sometimes they do come together to create something beautiful and sometimes they don't come together and it's a train wreck and you're just looking at the screen like what that doesn't make sense to me now there are a lot of scenes that can't just be taken out of this movie like for example when they show Batman's parents getting killed everyone knows that story and this is fine if you want to include it in the film but this time around it didn't do anything to serve the story it just didn't do anything for me and it was just a waste of screen time it was a great scene in a great opening but when I think about I'm like that just serves no purpose and what came right after that just doesn't make sense but another great scene which is beautiful is when Batman is running through Metropolis as the Kryptonians are fighting above the city that was amazing I love seeing everything from his perspective and everyone else's it gives you more of the human element and how they're looking at these two gods in the sky destroying their city we did get a little bit of that at the end of Man of Steel of course but it's always nice to see the same thing from a different perspective to paint a picture to why I said characters feel the way they do whether they're happy or upset I don't think they did a great job but I don't like the way that scene ended they should have shown to me what happened exactly after that the aftermath like the day the days after the hours after that I wanted to see that but no they jump forward in time like you nearly a year and a half and there could have been so much story of what has been told in that point in time but no they just skipped over that and the film wanted you to assume what was going on and I think they could have did a better job there but then again the editing is all over the place you can have a great scene of something and then it just cuts away and goes to something else you like no go back that was great I want to see more of that I don't want to see this I want to see that and then it goes there and then comes back and then comes back again and goes there and I kept doing it over and over and it was just clocking out the film to where you're waiting for something to happen and then you're just sitting there just like okay you know all right all right you know when is something going to happen now man is still dead at the rock the whole film it was an extremely slow burn but I feel that we got an epic payoff at the end with all the action with some of the action even was exhausting but the payoff was not as strong at the end of Batman being Superman done of justice it was still fun it was still a great job but for such a slow bill with choppy uneven editing I want to pay off in the end and when we got there at the end it just didn't give me everything that I wanted I still had fun with it but I didn't get everything that I wanted but that is another thing there are some scenes in this film that just don't make any sense at all they just don't I'm sitting there scratching my head like what is the purpose of that why don't you put this in the film it doesn't serve the story it doesn't serve the plot or the characters you're just putting that in just for the hell of it and I wasn't buying it at all but something that the film did do a great job is when I was talking about all the scattered plots and how they struggled to come together and one scene they did at the dinner of Jesse Eisenberg of Lex Luthor we have Batman Superman Wonder Woman and Jesse Eisenberg Bruce Wayne miss Clark Kent I love to bring people together blah blah blah blah blah I really did like that scene I had a lot of great things going on that scene and things were coming together and right after that it cuts to a great scene where Superman is flying all around the world doing all these great feats saving all these people with dialogue and monologue in the background by popular celebrity TV hosts and panelists and journalists and whatnot and it was great and I loved it and they're just showing all the great things of Superman and some people are on his side and some people are not on his side and they both have great opposing views of why they feel that way and that is another great thing that the film did is the view of the public and how some people love Superman and how some people are afraid of him and hate him and some people want to embrace him I thought that was a great job and it showed all the frustration that Superman had to go with and he's like what's going on I mean I'm saving people but people are still hating on me I just don't understand they did a great job with that now one complaint I do have with Batman is that I think that he was just too brutal in this film the Batman that I knew and loved and grew up with he has a code of ethics he doesn't just go around killing people and blowing up people and destroying things like that I mean he has the code of ethics but now they seem like they just completely threw that out the window now that can be fine because this is an older Batman and they could say that he's just tired and frustrated and not killing people doesn't get anywhere but they didn't show us that in the film they didn't tell us that in the film they just started having them go around doing whatever the hell he wants with no thought or guard or other consequences and I just wasn't on board with that Ben Affleck as Bruce Wayne Batman was great but they didn't give a reason why he was so brutal and just cranked the knob up to 50 not giving a damn about whatever he does and I don't want to spoil it here and I will talk about it later in my spoiler field review but I think they completely dropped the ball there and like I said there are some things in this film that just absolutely don't make sense to me they just don't make sense I'm just sending myself okay how did we get from point A to point B there was no straight line or squiggly line it just teleported there and I'm like this doesn't make sense it doesn't add up it doesn't serve the story the plot or anything and but they just want to throw it in the film and it's just wasting screen time of what you could have used to develop the story more or the characters more I really don't understand why Lex Luthor is so angry in the first place I mean he has somewhat of a valid reason for wanting to go after Batman but Superman no they really didn't give you a valid reason for that I mean did he take all your money did he take your woman your girlfriend your wife did he steal your empire and he embarrassed you in front of the public I mean why are you so obsessed with wanting to bring Superman down it makes sense in the comics but it doesn't make sense in this film to me especially with this not being the Lex Luthor that we know this is Lex Luthor Jr. so what is your problem why is what's going on the film did not explain that the film did not explain a lot of things the film just wanted you to assume things that were going on without fully fleshing it out and I didn't like that I didn't buy it now possibly the main thing while we here is seeing Batman and Superman fight the two biggest Titans in comic book history coming together to clash it out and it was great I loved the way it was choreographed and all that it looked amazing especially in IMAX and if you get a chance see this film in IMAX not in standard ratio but the way the film portrayed them fighting did not make sense the only side that made sense to me is why Superman would get engaged in the fight initially but I love fighting but I don't want to see two characters especially two characters that I love to death fighting for no reason when they could talk it out with five to ten seconds of dialogue and that couldn't happen in this film but they're just fighting for no reason and then stop on the simplest reason it just it doesn't add up it doesn't make any sense and it's not cohesive I mean the film is just going on and then you're like oh we're there Batman and Superman are about to fight but for what come on Batman is smarter than this he is supposed to be the greatest detective in the world of our time and Superman is no dummy either use your words and they did not use the words they nearly almost possibly could have killed each other by not using their words it still look great and I had fun with it but overall I'm like this doesn't make sense and it doesn't add up but still after all those complaints when it all came together in the end and I still don't want to spoil it for you here even if you didn't see that trailer number two or three at the camera at the end of November last year that spoil a lot of great stuff that was supposed to come this film when it comes together in the end it was awesome it was badass especially when it comes to Wonder Woman like I said before I thought she was the best part of this film I cannot wait to see her solo movie and when they came when it all comes together in the end I was happy I was giddy I was like yes this is exactly what I wanted to see the payoff was not as great as it was at the end of Man of Steel but I still have fun with it and I can't wait to see more but one more complaint that I just have to say is the Easter eggs they tried throwing to the film with the Justice League that was horrible it was forced in it just my goodness gracious it was shoehorn and it did not float at all I thought it was ridiculous and I actually hated that part of the film and I'll go into it with more specific details in my spoiler field review because I'm gonna talk about everything but with this I was just like oh my gosh what what what are we six years old come on treat me like an adult here and they did not do that so that was a complaint but guys overall I still have fun with the film is the did it reach my expectations of being a 9.5 perfect 10 out of 10 no did I hate this film absolutely not but I still have fun with it and think that you should go see it absolutely yes it is still a great film and I am looking forward to it and I cannot wait for the 30-minute R rated extended cut that's gonna come out on DVD Blu-ray in the coming months so if I had to rate this film out of a 1 out of 10 I would give it a 7 out of 10 the first I saw this Monday and I saw it last night again on Thursday the first time I saw it I gave it a 7.5 but I was thinking about it more and more and more I was like no I have to drop this down to a 6 because a lot of things don't make sense to me well now I saw it again last night I enjoyed it a lot more the second time and I'm gonna stick it a 7 so yes a 7 out of 10 but guys that's just my opinion so do you agree with me or do you disagree with me let me know 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