Zach Snyder has a tendency to try and be innovative and unique with storytelling. We’ve seen it in MoS with the flashbacks and Sucker Punch with his dance/fight sequences which I consider to be basically his only original works (300 was a direct translation of comic to screen and Watchmen was pretty darn close as well). Whenever he tries to craft stories himself, you can see that he’s trying to not be bland, to not be conventional. Unfortunately, I think it’s time for him to be boring and create an easy 3-Act structure with an A plot and a B plot. I appreciate his ambition, and to some degree it works if you’re lenient, but it’s just not for everyone and it’s so hard to get right you might as well not try.
The movie as a whole though can probably be summed up as, wow that editing. There's an A plot, a B plot, a C plot, D plot, and an E plot: Batman's plot, Superman's plot, Wonder Woman's plot, Lex's plot, and the Lois/Supporting characters’ plot. That's too much. That's way too much. It felt like every time we got close to a satisfying conclusion to one thread we were immediately ejected into another storyline.
And that’s only one issue. The next problem with this is that Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice isn’t just one movie. It’s two movies, maybe 3 movies in one. We get the introduction of Batman and his conflict with Superman. That’s enough for a whole film right there. We could’ve left the film with them finding common ground or working it out. That by itself would’ve been enough for most moviegoers. Instead, we’re treated to Snyder’s adaptation of The Death of Superman, complete with funeral and all. That right there could’ve been the set up for Justice League. Depending on how you spin it, BvS could have been a Batman movie, a Batman v Superman movie, and then finally a Trinity Movie: The Death of Superman.
