![]() Instead, alas, we have Snyder, whose idea of a moral quandary is should I make this scene grim-or grimmer? Loud-or louder? Violent-or more violent still? It’s thus no surprise that after all its early, ostentatious handwringing, Batman v Superman ends almost exactly as its predecessor did, with another dull, city-smashing duel between super-beings. Is Superman really a hero? Or is he just some alien interloper who brought his extraterrestrial vendettas to our humble planet, knocking down an entire urban skyline in the process? In the hands of another director-the Christopher Nolan of the Dark Knight movies or the Bryan Singer of the X-Men films come immediately to mind-this and other moral quandaries might have been drawn out in intriguing ways. ![]() In Snyder’s retelling here, Bruce Wayne (a.k.a., obviously, Batman) essentially becomes the voice of those critics. The Man of Steel director Zack Snyder took a fair amount of grief for the way that movie casually depopulated an American city, however fictional. There’s the germ of an interesting idea here.
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