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![]() Whenever he shows up at some site to save someone - usually his fiancée Lois (Amy Adams), who announces her right to interview terrorists with “I’m not a lady, I’m a reporter!” - he tends to leave in his wake wreckage and dead bodies. Their questioning is granted a trendily topical context with help by Senator Finch (Holly Hunter), who’s especially keen to doubt Superman’s exploits. Just as young Clark Kent had a hard time in Kansas, so young Bruce had a hard time in Gotham, and now, at last, they meet as superheroes given to questioning their missions and themselves. In this movie, at least, she doesn’t have to grind through an origin story you already know, like, say, little boy Bruce Wayne (Brandon Spink), watching and re-watching his parents shot in slow motion, falling and falling again into a pit of bats, visiting and revisiting mom and dad’s mausoleum.īruce’s nightmares are too familiar to be weird, and here, in Zach Snyder’s follow-up to Man of Steel, they also feel like a pile-on. By comparison, Wonder Woman looks refreshingly healthy, though this is surely an effect of the lack of backstory: she drops in to the midst of the boys’ fretting, dons her gear, and fights the monster fiercely. It’s this part, the zigzagging back and forth between motives and ideals, that makes both Superman and Batman look erratic and angsty, sometimes a little schizzy. As it turns out, his strategy is pretty much spot-on: as soon as the guys see their girls in trouble, they capitulate. Lex wants the guys to fight each other to the death, and he’s not above kidnapping and torturing girlfriends and mothers to get what he wants. Zod’s massive ugliness somehow results from a ritual mixing of his corpse’s DNA with the blood of Lex Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg), whose extensive plotting to pit Batman and Superman against one another is nothing if not dedicated. The route to this showdown is long and convoluted. It’s near the end of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and the trio of superheroes has assembled to combat an awkwardly hulky version of General Zod (Michael Shannon). ![]() It’s clear enough that she’s not with either of them. She stands between them, her outfit skimpy and her eyes ablaze. “Is she with you?” “No, I thought she was with you.” Batman (Ben Affleck) and Superman (Henry Cavill) stand on either side of Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), set against a dark night and devastated buildings in Metropolis. ![]()
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