So I’m no stranger to having controversial film opinions however, I would like to discuss one in particular; Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Ultimate Edition. Upon release, the film was destroyed for a myriad of reasons, including the fact the studio forced the director to cut thirty minutes of footage at the last minute. Now I defended the theatrical cut when I first saw it. There were flaws, but overall the movie worked. With the release of the Blu-Ray, they granted us Snyders full vision in the three-hour R-Rated Ultimate Edition. It stunned me. These extra thirty minutes added the missing pieces to the film. I watched an ambitious masterpiece unfold in front of me. No matter how many times I watch the film, I find something new. Now, while the Ultimate Edition turned some people around on the film, many still hated it for lots of reasons. My goal with this article is to breakdown the film and explain what I think people missed. With that being said, I will focus on the film itself and not how it pertains to the comics. These characters have been around forever and should not lock themselves into specific interpretations. All that out the way here we go...
We start the film with a dream sequence seeing the death of Bruce’s parents while an older Batman narrates with this line “There was a time above. A time before. There were perfect things, diamond absolutes. How things fall. Things on earth. And what falls is fallen”. The first half of this statement is referring to Bruce’s early days as Batman, it also referred to a time before Superman when things were simpler. This Batman was not always like this, he used to have his rules but we jump into the third act of his journey coming to part two of the quote. The fall he is referring to is himself, his morals and rules that he used to live by, Bruce has fallen away from the man he used to be and is slowly getting consumed by Batman. We then see Bruce fall into the well full of bats as they carry him into a light ending the dream with the quote “In the dream, they took me to the light, a beautiful lie.” a lie of a perfect world that the Batman would be a symbol of hope. Instead, Bruce is being consumed by darkness. They then show us in eye-blinding white the words “Metropolis, Mankind is introduced to THE SUPERMAN”. I emphasize THE on purpose because it is the first step of what Bruce views Superman as not a person but a threat.
We now watch the finale of Man of Steel but from Bruce Wayne’s perspective. Batman has always been about striking fear into the hearts of Gotham’s criminals and in the first scene, we see an adult Bruce he is fearful and helpless to stop what he was witnessing. This is a masterful character introduction. As Bruce runs into the chaos while everyone runs away, he helps people and he spots a young girl about to get crushed by debris. He runs and saves her, then tries to comfort her. When asked where her mom is, the girl just points to the destroyed Wayne building as Bruce embraces her as he sees Superman and Zod fighting. Bruce already has plenty of motivation to hate Superman.
This brings us to the Africa sequence where we follow Lois Lane on what’s been described as an impossible interview with a supposed terrorist. We find out during the interview that Lois’s photographer is CIA without her knowledge and they execute him, while they take Lois, hostage. We cut to an American military base where a drone strike gets ordered on the camp where Lois is. Suddenly the terrorists’ private security turns on his men, killing them all and burning the bodies. As their burning the head contractor says “Quick, he’s coming”. Superman swoops in, taking out the drone strike and rescuing Lois. I know this all seems pretty random at this current point, so let me explain. Lex Luthor is manipulating every action of almost every character throughout this whole film. Luthor hires actors to pretend to be victims of Superman’s in court. From the government’s perspective, Superman ruined a CIA operation and caused a worldwide incident just to save Lois’s life. All of this is to build Batman’s hatred of Superman.
We now come to Batman’s introduction scene, except we do not see it from his perspective, we follow two Gotham City police officers on a random call. They come across a group of caged women who feel too scared to come out because Batman is still there. The cops then hear a criminal scream and one goes to check it out. Consistently staying with the officer’s perspective like a horror movie, we see Batman as a shadowy, ominous figure behind. The two officers meet the felon and realize Batman has “branded” the criminal. Something that gets done only to the worst of the worst criminals. This entire sequence is a perfect way to introduce this version of Batman as he puts fear into everyone that it’s a horror for the officers too.
Lois and Clark discuss what happened in Africa as she learns that she has a bullet from the attack lodged in her journal. This kicks off her investigative arc of the film while also building that she does not think Clark cares enough about real-life consequences. Now we meet our new Alfred as Bruce returns to the Batcave. Bruce reveals that he is looking for a man called ‘the white Portuguese’ but first he needs to find the head of the contractor team from Africa. This is the first connection between Bruce and Clark’s present-day stories. Alfred throws a paper down in front of Bruce from last night about him branding and tells Bruce he has ‘new rules’. To which Bruce responds, ‘We’re criminals, Alfred. We’ve always been criminals. Nothing’s Changed’ This Batman has been at it for twenty years without fixing the problem. It’s not that this Batman commits premeditated murder, but if you get in his way and die, he won’t lose any sleep about it. He does not want to admit he isn’t the Batman he used to be. Alfred brings up footage of Superman and tells Bruce that “everything’s changed. That’s how it starts, sir. The fever, the rage, the feeling of powerlessness. It turns good men cruel” Alfred is referring to Bruce here telling him he used to have rules and morals but after twenty years without fixing the problem on top of Superman, Bruce became cruel using more and more extreme methods to accomplish his goals.
Now we meet possibly the most controversial character in this film, Jesse Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor. People accuse him of being too silly, having no motivation, and not being threatening. Snyder’s goal is to bring these characters into the modern-day so it makes sense this version of Lex is a young tech billionaire and not a traditional Lex. He shows a group of Senators a small bit of Kryptonite he found and explains that if he can get an import license, he can bring more in so the government can weaponize it. One senator rejects him while the other gives Lex access to Zod’s crashed ship and his body for his help. Luthor cuts off Zod’s fingerprints so he can gain access to restricted parts of the ship. Now we witness a man named Wally, a former Wayne employee who got injured in the Metropolis attack. He spray paints the words False God on a statue of Superman. After Clark witnesses this on TV, he goes to Gotham to speak to the woman who testified about the Africa incident.
Here begins Clark’s investigative arc of the film that got bafflingly cut from the theatrical cut where he learns about the Batman. He sees a divide in Gotham’s citizens immediately with one being afraid of Batman, while the other says you’re safe unless you give him a reason to look for you. At a private fight club, Bruce tracks down his target and clones his phone. Meanwhile, after his trip to Gotham, Clark pleads to cover the Batman story, but The Bugle tells him it’s not worth the time. Perry informs Clark that he has to cover a charity event for the Library of Metropolis. This is an orchestration of Lex Luthor to get Clark and Bruce to meet.
Now we’re back with Lex and the female senator, Lex keeps up his cheesy act until the senator says she is blocking the kryptonite. Lex’s mood immediately changes and he taunts the senator. She tells him she will not fall for his tricks that he cannot fool her by taking “a can of piss and calling it Grannys Peach Tea, take a weapon of assassination and call it a deterrent I’m not going to drink it”. As random as this line seems now, it comes back with a vengeance later as Lex wants to get back at the senator. Now we get the first bit of Lex’s motivation as he asks the senator menacingly if she thinks his dead dad would mind if he changed one thing in his room. Then points to a painting of angels fighting demons and says it should be upside down. He then follows with “ we know better now don’t we devils don’t come from hell beneath us they come from the sky” this shows Lex’s hatred of “god”.
They now thrust us into a dream sequence of Bruce placing flowers on his parent’s graves. A giant bat jumps out and consumes Bruce. I do not know how they could have made the metaphor of Bruce being consumed by Batman any more clear yet people still missed it. Bruce finds out from the contractor’s phone that there is a connection to Lex Luthor and he needs to hack his computers. Alfred then informs him that Bruce has gotten invited to Lex’s house and does not have to be Batman to do this. Lex already knows Bruce’s identity, all of this is to get Bruce and Clark to meet. As Bruce is leaving for the party, he passes an old Robin suit with bright green text on it saying “haha jokes on you Batman” this is more evidence of how long this Batman has been at it, he’s lost a Robin to the Joker, referencing the famous comic story where Joker tortures and kills Robin and Batman cannot save him.
At the meeting for the Library of Metropolis, we get the next part of Lex’s motivation. He says nervously during his speech that ‘the bittersweet pain among men is having knowledge without power because that is paradoxical." Lex believes himself to be a genius, but because he does not have power, he has no influence. It’s the same thing Marvel did with Mysterio in Spider-Man Far From Home, yet people loved it there and hated it here. Clark hears Alfred talking into Bruce’s earpiece and realizes that Bruce is Batman. After placing a hacking device on Luthor’s computer, Clark stops Bruce to interview him about the Batman. Bruce responds by attacking The Daily Planet for praising Superman while attacking Batman. Now Clark has more reason to dislike Batman. Alfred informs Bruce that his hacking device is finished Clark follows but sees on TV a woman trapped in a building. Clark immediately goes to save the woman while Bruce sees that a mysterious person has taken his device. We learn later this to be Wonder Woman.
Now to everyone who complains that this Superman does not care about people, we get a montage of Superman saving people while listening to interviews debating his place in the world. If he has morals and should he abide by a country’s laws. The world views him as a god; they project their wishes for a savior onto him while he is just a guy wanting to do the right thing. This makes this version of the character so interesting, Clark just wants to do the right thing but in a political world, people do not understand that. Superman investigates the “Bat-Brand” as we see the criminal Batman branded entering prison. Lex pays for Wally’s bail for spraying the Superman statue and convinces him he wants to help bring down Superman legally. Lex’s goons pay off a prison inmate to kill the branded felon, thus giving Clark even more reason to think he should stop this Batman. At a party, Bruce tracks down Diana, aka Wonder Woman, and confronts her about his hacking device. She tells him she just borrowed it as Luthor had a photograph of hers, but she could not access the drive and returns it to Bruce.
As Bruce attempts to hack the drive, we enter another dream sequence signaled by the sound of the World Engine. The giant machine attacking Metropolis from the end of Man of Steel. We see a future known to comic fans as “Injustice” where Superman has turned evil. This sequence concludes with a captured Batman getting killed by Superman. This sequence works on two levels. For the casual fan, it’s Bruce having a nightmare about what Superman will become. For the comic fan or someone willing to do a little research, it’s a foreshadowing of a future story. Once Batman gets killed, he wakes up and sees The Flash. He screams at him the following words “Bruce, listen to me now. It’s Lois, Lois Lane, she’s the key. Am I too soon? I’m too soon! You’re right about him! You’ve always been right about him! Fear Him! Find us, Bruce, you have to find us!” Bruce jolts awake, or so it seems. Behind Bruce you see papers floating, letting us know that the flash was just there, though Bruce does not realize this.
Lex sends Clark an anonymous package showing that the “Bat-Brand means death, and Clark decides he must stop Batman. Bruce hacks Lex’s drive and finds out that “the white Portuguese” that he has been looking for is a ship, not a person. Alfred confronts Bruce about the contents of the ship and Bruce reveals that it is Kryptonite headed to Luthor and he is going to steal it. Alfred assumes it’s to destroy it but Bruce says No. Alfred asks Bruce, “You’re gonna go to war?” Bruce responds with “That son of a bitch brought the war to us two years ago. Jesus. Alfred. Count the dead. Thousands of people. What’s next? Millions? He has the power to wipe out the entire human race, and if we believe there’s even a 1% chance that he is our enemy, we have to take it as an absolute certainty. And we have to destroy him. Alfred pleads to Bruce that he is not their enemy. Bruce continues with “Not today. Twenty years in Gotham, Alfred. We’ve seen what promises are worth. How many good guys are left? How many stayed that way. I quoted that whole monologue because this is a crucial turning point for Bruce. Bruce is about to get fully consumed by Batman. He is about to commit pre-meditated murder of a man just because he might do something bad one day. That’s why Bruce later only refers to Clark as a threat, not a person because he believes if he does not see Clark as a person he is not going too far.
Clark tracks down the wife of the “branded” man who got killed. She tells him it did not matter that they moved him to Metropolis, Batman is judge and jury. She inquires to Clark about how that can be justice. He wants to take her story public to stop Batman this way. The woman tells Clark that words cannot stop someone like Batman only a fist could. Batman tracks down Luthor’s Kryptonite shipment and after putting a tracker on their car chases them down. Before Batman can catch up to them Superman is standing in the street and Batman hits him crashing the car. Superman rips the roof off the top of the Batmobile and threatens him with, “Next time they shine your light in the sky, don’t go to it. The Bat is dead, bury it. Consider this mercy.” It does not intimidate Batman in the slightest as he asks one of the coolest one-liners ever “tell me do you bleed” as Superman flies off Bruce utters “you will”. Bruce while not retrieving the Kryptonite knows where it is thanks to his tracker.
The government urges Superman to show up to a trial the next day about the Africa incident. Conflicted Clark goes to see his mother. She tells him, “People hate what they don’t understand. But they see what you do, and they know who you are. You’re not a killer, a threat. I never wanted this world to have you. Be their hero, Clark, be their monument, be their angel. Be anything they need you to be. Or be none of it. You don’t owe this world a thing. You never did.” This is another reason this version of the character is so interesting he does not owe humanity a thing and yet he still just wants to help people. Even when the entire world hates him, he would give anything to protect Earth, even his life. The woman who Lex hired to testify against Superman realizes Luthor’s goons are after her and informs the senator she lied and that Lex paid her off. Lois confronts the General from Man of Steel, and he informs her that the bullet she found is from LexCorp. Also that the contractors were also Luthor’s. She realizes that Lex set this whole thing up to frame Superman, but she does not yet know why.
Now we come to the court meeting, but now the senator knows Lex is playing her. Bruce sees that his former employee that is going to testify against Superman has been sending his relief checks back insulting Bruce saying he did not do enough. This is Lex intercepting the checks and another push for Bruce to hate Superman orchestrated by Luthor. Back at the court Luthor while taunting the senator gives the next piece of his motivation with the line, “You know the oldest lie in America senator. It’s that power can be innocent.” I’ll touch more on this later, but Luthor does not believe that you can have power and be 100% good. Superman walks into the courtroom as the senator is about to reveal Lex’s lies she notices a jar on her desk labeled Granny’s Peach Tea. This is Luthor’s ultimate insult to her as Wally’s wheelchair explodes too late for Superman to stop it. Bruce watches the chaos on TV as he receives one last letter from Wally, really by Luthor showing the destruction of Wayne Tower with bright red text saying “You let your family die.” This is the tipping point for Bruce that he has no choice, he must kill Superman. After Superman helps bring out all the victims from the bombing, he jets off. Luthor returns to LexCorp where he was keeping the Kryptonite and realizes Batman has broken in to steal it. This was the last step in Luthor’s plan on Batman’s side.
Clark goes to talk to Lois, and he thinks that he did not see the bomb because he was not looking for it. Clark says, “All this time I’ve been living my life the way my father saw it. Righting wrongs for a ghost. Thinking I’m here to do good. Superman was never real. Just the dream of a farmer from Kansas." Clark wants nothing more than to do right by Earth but he feels overwhelmed with guilt thinking he became complacent and not doing enough. Lois tells him, “ That farmer’s dream is all some people have. It’s all that gives them hope.” Touching the S on his chest, she reminds Clark that the symbol stands for hope. Clark says, "It did on my world. My world doesn’t exist anymore." Despite wanting to do right by the earth, Superman still views himself as an alien. Luthor uses Zod’s fingerprints to get into a restricted area of the Kryptonian ship, as the computer teaches him about all different worlds.
Bruce trains to fight Superman while also creating Kryptonite weapons. As he goes through the information on Luthor’s computer he hacked, he finds out Wonder Woman has been around since WWI. Luthor takes Zod’s body and combines it with his DNA to create a monster. This is his backup plan if Batman does not kill Superman. Lois investigates Wally’s apartment and deducts that he did not know Luthor was using him as bait. She also learns that the bomb in the chair was lined with lead, the only thing Superman can’t see through. Clark in his guilt goes off into the mountains to die and gets greeted by a vision of his father. He tells Clark about nightmares that used to haunt him, and they stopped when he met Clark’s mom. That “She was my world”. After getting his reconciliation with his dad, he heads back to Metropolis. Alfred finds Bruce standing at the old destroyed Wayne Manor. Their conversation goes like this...
Alfred-You know you can’t win this. Its Suicide.
Bruce- I’m older now than my father ever was. This may be the only thing I do that matters.
Alfred- Twenty years of fighting criminals amounts to nothing?
Bruce- Criminals are like weeds Alfred. Pull one up another grows in its place. This is about the future of the world. This is my legacy. You know my father set me down right here told me what Wayne Manor was built on.
Alfred- Railroads, real estate, and oil.
Bruce- The first generation made their fortune trading with the French. Pelts and skins. They were hunters.
Bruce walks off
Alfred-So falls the House of Wayne.
This is my favorite exchange in the whole film. Bruce feels that he has failed Gotham and done nothing everlasting. He feels guilt about outliving his dad and wants to do one thing that matters. To him that is killing Superman, he is looking for any way to justify crossing that last line to himself. We now see Martha Kent kidnapped as she leaves her job. Batman shines his light in the sky to lure Superman to him. Luthor sees the signal and makes a call saying “the night is here”. His goons kidnap Lois and bring her to Luthor. Luthor taunts Lois while threatening her. Lex says seemingly random stuff but throws her off the roof, believing the quickest way to reach Superman is to threaten Lois. He is of course right and Superman saves her and goes to stop Luthor. Now Lex is going to spell out his motivation for anyone still confused with this dialogue exchange.....
Lex- Boy, do we have problems up here. The problem of evil in the world. Uh, the problem of absolute virtue.
Superman- I'll take you in without breaking you. Which is more than you deserve.
Lex- The problem of you on top of everything else. You above all. Ah, because that’s what god is. Horus, Apollo, Jehovah, Kal-El. Clark Joseph Kent. See, what we call god depends upon our tribe, Clark-Joe. Because god is tribal. God takes sides. No man in the sky intervened when I was a boy to deliver me from Daddy’s fist and abominations. Mmm. I figured out way back if god is all-powerful, he cannot be all good. And if he is all good, then he cannot be all-powerful, and neither can you be. They need to see the fraud you are with their eyes. The blood on your hands.
Superman- What have you done?
Lex- And tonight they will. Yes, because you my friend have a date across the bay. Ripe fruit his hate. Two years growing, but it did not take much to push him over the edge. Little red notes, big bang, you let your family die! And Now you will fly to him and you will battle him to the death ... Black and blue, Fight Night!, The greatest gladiator match in the history of the world... God vs. Man... Day vs. Night... Son of Krypton vs. Bat of Gotham!
Superman-You think I'll fight him for you?
Lex- Yes I do I think you will fight fight fight for that special lady in your life.
Superman- She’s safe on the ground. How about you?
Lex- Close, but I am not talking about Lois. No, every boy’s special lady is his mother.
Superman goes to attack Lex, but he shows him pictures of Martha tied up and brings Superman to his knees, throwing the pictures at him.
Lex- Why the mother of a flying demon must be a witch. The Punishment for Witches. Death by fire.
Superman screams in anger- Where is she?
Lex- I don’t know I would not let them tell me. If you kill me, Martha dies. If you fly away, Martha also dies. But if you kill the Bat, Martha lives. And now god bends to my will. Now the cameras are waiting at your ship for the world to see the holes in the holy. Yes, the almighty comes clean about how dirty he is. To save Martha, bring me the head of the Bat. Mother of god look at the time when you came here you had an hour now it’s less.
I know that’s a very long exchange, but I have heard so many times that Lex has no motivation, so let me spell it out. Lex believes the worst thing is to have knowledge without power. He believes the oldest lie to be that you can be innocent and have power, and now we get the last piece. Lex hates god. His father abused him as a kid and blames god now with Superman he has someone to physically be a god in his mind. He wants to make “god bend to his will and then kill him” Also to people who do not understand Lex’s plan now that his motivations are clear, let me explain. If he kills Batman, it ruins Superman and his monster kills him or Batman kills Superman. Either way, Luthor gets what he wants. Clark tells Lois he is going to convince Batman to help him or he has to die as he flies away he tells Lois “No one stays good in this world”.
Now here is the only sequence in the film that is a bit forced as Diana gets an email from Bruce with her photo and information about other superheroes. Lois takes a chopper to Gotham as we reach the moment the movie has been building to the fight between Batman and Superman. Clark attempts to talk to Bruce, but Batman keeps attacking him. Eventually, Clark knocks Bruce around to convince him to listen. He of course doesn’t and launches a Kryptonite gas grenade at Superman. At this point the full-on fight begins, Batman tells Superman about the gas to “breathe it in. That’s fear. You’re not brave. Men are brave”. The fight continues as they trade who has the upper hand. Eventually, Batman gets a weakened Superman by the leg and tells him the following “I bet your parents taught you that you were here for a reason. My parents taught me a different lesson dying in the gutter for no reason at all. They told me the world only makes sense if you force it too.” Batman then swings Superman through multiple pillars and pins him down on the ground with his foot on his neck, about to stab him with a Kryptonite spear, killing him. He tells Superman, “You were never a god, you were never even a man.” He then cuts his cheek with the spear as he lifts for the killing strike we come to the most controversial part of this film.
So now it’s time to talk about the infamous Martha moment. First, right off the bat, they do not stop fighting because their mothers have the same name. Batman has spent months trying to destroy this “alien”. Using the name infuriates Batman even more because he thinks it’s a trick. Once Lois throws herself on top of Superman, it snaps Batman out of his kill rage enough to listen. He understands that they’re not so different. Bruce never considered that this “alien” had a human mother. Let alone use his dying words, asking his killer to save her. Bruce was just a helpless child back then he couldn’t save his “Martha”. He is now in the same position as his parent’s killer, about to take a defenseless life away. He is not killing an alien, he is killing someone’s son. Now he has a chance to redeem himself as he tells Clark “Martha won’t die tonight”. This is the entire reason we got shown the death of the Waynes again at the beginning of the film. This moment has been getting mocked and memed from the moment of release, but it’s the big emotional payoff of the film if you’re paying attention.
Batman and Superman agree to work together with Batman going after Martha while Superman goes to stop Lex. Lois takes the Kryptonite spear and throws it in the water. Batman rescues Martha in possibly the most comic accurate and awesome action sequence involving his character ever put to film. While Superman does not get to Lex in time to stop Doomsday from being created. Superman fights Doomsday and it wreaks havoc on the city. Wonder Woman is getting on a plane to leave the city, but after seeing what was going on, she goes to help. Meanwhile, Batman and Superman are fighting Doomsday, Batman gets shot down before being saved by Wonder Woman in an awesome sequence that just gets your blood pumping every time. The three of them work together to fight Doomsday. One of my favorite brief moments from this amazing fight is Wonder Woman getting thrown down, and she grins like she is enjoying the fight. Lois realizes they need the spear she threw away but gets trapped. Superman goes to save her, but the Kryptonite weakens him. Wonder Woman and Batman are just barely holding Doomsday back. Superman realizes he must be the one to use the spear. He tells Lois, " I love you. This is my world. You are my world." He is officially choosing Earth, and he tells Lois that she is everything to him, just like his dad said about his mom. He stabs Doomsday with the spear, but it does not penetrate deep enough. Doomsday stabs Superman and while he can push the spear farther in and kill Doomsday, it kills him.
Okay, so about Superman dying in the second movie in this universe. People have argued since this movie came out that Superman didn’t have to die and they could have figured something out is missing the point. Every single second Doomsday is alive puts people at risk. Clark chose Earth, despite all the controversy, all the hatred he made the ultimate sacrifice of giving up his life to save people even when they didn’t love him. Also, how amazing is it that the person to bring Batman back from the edge to give him hope again is Superman, who is the symbol of hope. We see sweeping images of empty streets as all of Metropolis has shown up for Superman’s funeral while Clark Kent is being buried back home. Martha gives Lois a gift from Clark and learns that he was going to propose. We see the funeral from both perspectives, the sweeping military funeral and the small country boy one. At Clarks, Bruce looms in the distance with Diana. We learn that Bruce as an anonymous donor has fully paid for Clark’s funeral. Bruce and Diana have the following conversation...
Bruce- All those circuses back east burying an empty box.
Diana- They don’t know how to honor him except as a soldier.
Bruce- I failed him in life. I won’t fail him in death. Help me find the others like you.
Diana- Maybe they don’t want to be found.
Bruce- They will and they’ll fight. We have to stand together.
Diana- 100 years ago, I walked away from mankind. From a century of horrors. Men made a world where standing together is impossible.
Bruce- Men are still good. We fight, we kill, we betray one another. But we can rebuild. We can do better, we will, we have to.
Diana- The others like me, why did you say they’ll have to fight.
Bruce- Just a feeling.
This is more than just a Justice League setup. Superman’s sacrifice has restored Bruce and Diana’s faith in humanity. We see the first step of this when Batman chooses not to brand Lex. Luthor sounds like a crazy man rambling about “the bell has already been rung ding dog the god is dead. He has found us, he’s hungry, and he is coming.” This is to signal Darkseid, a Justice League villain for the next film. The final beautiful shots of the film as Lois drops the first bit of dirt on Clark’s grave and walks off. The dirt rises, and we cut to credits in a moment that gives me chills every time.
So that is Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: Ultimate Edition, an awe-inspiring film. I hope that this analysis/breakdown shows you this film in a new light. If nothing else, if you still dislike the film, maybe you can understand people like me who do. I hope you enjoyed this it took me a very long time to write, and it’s the first article of this type I have ever written.
