Let me first preface this by saying if you are one of those
anti-hype beast "this was the worst movie I've ever seen” people then
stop. You are wrong, end of story.
Kingsman still remains my least favorite movie I've ever seen.
Now to the actual review, the movie starts out with its
first of a couple of dream sequences.
Had a bit of a rough start in my eyes.
The first 20-30 minutes of the film are very confusing, the film just
kind of jumps around incoherently for a good bit before it finds its
footing. All the dreams that Bruce had
were unnecessary and frankly kind of dumb, minus the one where the flash (?)
came back in time and warned him because that one is the only one that pushed
the plot forward. The film then starts
moving warp speed (well as warp speed as a 3 hour movie can move) leading up to
the fight between batman and superman which was orchestrated by Lex.
A small bit before we go on, I hated how Lex was being
played most of the movie until his rooftop scene which was honestly my favorite
10 minutes of the movie. Jesse Eisenberg
completely took over the role then. Lex
throwing Louis Lane off a skyscraper (!!!) followed by his monologue with
Superman was just brilliant. I do wish he played Lex a little less cartoon-y
though.
Now the fight the gladiator bout does not disappoint
littered with iconic moments. Then not less than 5 or 6 explosions later
Doomsday is introduced which a good amount of people may not agree with but it
was the only move that makes sense because Doomsday needs no plot development
because he is just a brute strength type of bad guy. Ohhh and Wonder Woman is there now. We really
did not get enough from Wonder Woman to say much about her but she did look
dang good fighting alongside Bruce and Clark. Things happen and the movie ends
with Superman's death (?) which part of me could have just done completely
without. I didn't believe Supes was
dead, you didn't believe Supes was dead, no one really did. BUT this could have
been taken in a completely different way which I will go into later.
Afleck more than held his own as Batman, a little too moody
for Bruce perhaps but it was a moody movie so whatever. The movie really played up the "world's
greatest detective" coin that Batman owns and that was much appreciated.
BatFleck was also aided by the best live action depiction of Alfred yet in the
comic book world. Alfred is meant to be
so much more than just a stay at home butler and they completely nailed that
one.
The meta-human teasers were very exciting as well, especially
Aquaman, man I am excited for that hero to come to life.
The movie suffered from something a lot of Zach Snyder
movies suffer from, it was convoluted.
Although I do cut it some slack because there were truly an insane
amount of moving pieces that had to be addressed in this movie. The movie just
didn't explain enough to be great. It
was dark but why was it so dark? It felt
like a Zach Snyder take on humanity and morality at a lot of moments. Batman was just down right brutal, no regard
what so ever for human life. “Straight outta Arkham” down to the bone. Also the whole movie was filmed through a
grey scale filter to make the mood even drearier.
Why did Lex hate Superman so much? It hit on that he had a
very troubled youth and an abusive father but we got no type of motive
development. The ending was also very disappointing because I had to sit
through this pseudo-death funeral and then Batman get the idea to form the
justice league because he feels like they will need to come together. No loose end needing to be addressed or
looming threat to the planet, no because Batman feels like they will have to.
That could have been done MUCH better. Unless
Superman’s death WAS the looming threat and that now after seeing that Superman
was on team human even Batman is like “Damn now what are we going to do if say
another Zod comes along” It’s like
losing the best player on your team during halftime, except that player is a
god and infinitely better than every other player. The world didn't appreciate Superman while he was there and now we get to see how long it takes till they are begging for him to come back, and that is an ending I can get behind.
At the end of the day this may not be the movie we wanted
but in a lot of ways it was the movie we needed (I had to work that in). Bad reviews or not this is by far the most important Comic book
movie to date, sets so many things in motion that I don't even have time to go
into. The movie wasn't great but it was
decent, overly dark and not much humor but entertaining. Snyder may not be great at making a coherent
plot but he sure as hell can make things exciting.
This was a very short review and it does not do the movie justice. Go see the movie, just don't expect it to be the best thing you have ever seen (or the worst)
PS: Did not like the film score felt too overpowering, hope
they just let Hans role solo on the next one.
By: Taylor Bauldwin