The new Luthor is neither the clownish figure of the later Christopher Reeve-era movies, nor the powerfully built, bald-headed villain often seen in the comic books. Jesse Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor is a weakling master-manipulator He’s a superhero with a tabloid mentality: he sees only the vivid, garish headlines – the destruction of his own Wayne Financial tower in Metropolis and the deaths of people he loved – and ignores the story’s fine detail. This unhinged Batman is the perfect opponent for Superman, a symbol of mankind’s blind rage in the face of its devastating first contact with intelligent alien life. The new trailer shows a caped crusader who appears to have lost his way, even before the events of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and who adopts a ruthless and vindictive approach to vigilante activities in his home city of Gotham that attracts the attention of crusading Daily Planet journo Clark Kent, even before the pair’s costumed battles. Not everyone sees Superman as a hero, and some are out for blood This could be the nastiest big-screen Batman What’s clear is that not everyone sees Superman as a hero, given the appalling fallout of the Earth’s latest extraterrestrial invasion, and some are out for blood. But at least director Zack Snyder has seen fit to use the devastation of the great city as a springboard for the events of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, even if the introduction of a hearing featuring Holly Hunter’s supercilious senator feels a little too close to similar scenes in Iron Man 2 for comfort. In many ways, the epic conclusion felt like a hamfisted attempt to go one step further than the dramatic finale of rival Marvel’s The Avengers a year earlier, in which New York was partly destroyed by an alien invasion.
One of the biggest criticisms of Man of Steel was the film’s blitzkrieg denouement, in which Superman battled General Zod against a backdrop of Metropolis’s near-destruction by the Kryptonian villain’s brutal “world engine”. Saving mankind from extinction was never going to be enough
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