An early-on chase involving the Batmobile is so jarringly, sloppily edited that it makes the finale from Man of Steel seem coherent by comparison. It doesn’t help matters that the first half of this horrifically overlong film is an astounding bore. Instead of cutting to that character, the movie next shifts to Washington, D.C., to show Lois Lane (Amy Adams) meeting with a governmental source for a story. “Where does he go?” White asks, harangued, musing that he’s probably taken off for Kansas. To give you one of far too many examples, the film features a scene in which perpetually tetchy Daily Planet editor Perry White (Laurence Fishburne) prowls around the office, searching for an AWOL Clark Kent (Henry Cavill). There’s no flow from scene to scene, no basic logic to the order of sequences it’s no longer avoidable that director Zack Snyder, while a very talented visual stylist (who turns some shots here into museum-worthy tableaus of slow-motion carnage), is an extraordinarily inept storyteller. A leaden and lethargic movie that somehow features a sickening excess of plot points without any narrative drive or through-line, it doesn’t feel directed so much as cobbled together in the dark. Taken as a purely cinematic work (without giving consideration to its linchpin role in launching the DC Movieverse), Batman V Superman is shockingly shoddy.
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