Seems like only yesterday that Zack Snyder stunned Comic-Con audiences by having Harry Lennix read an iconic passage from Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns as a way of announcing that the assumed Man of Steel sequel would actually be a Batman/Superman team-up. Yet here we are just over a month away from the unfortunately titled Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and WB saw fit to release the final full trailer this morning. I guess those Turkish Airlines Super Bowl commercials didn’t cut it.
Let’s recap:
This final trailer, though, well this is Batman’s trailer. In fact, if you saw no other footage from this film beyond this trailer you’d likely assume that Batman v Superman is really just a Batman movie with an extended cameo from the Big Blue Boy Scout. The opening sequence is a fight scene which would make the Arkham video game makers proud. Afterwards, Bruce laments his advancing age in a chat with the Jeremy Irons’ Alfred before declaring war on Superman because if there’s even just a 1% chance that they’re right about him being a threat to the entire planet they have to do everything to stop him.
It looks like he’ll be utterly embarrassed in his first confrontation with Superman before returning for a second round in a robot suit which will at the very least help him deflect one punch, much to Superman’s surprise since he gives him a confused “People usually fall down when I punch them” look. Plus, in his civilian life as Bruce Wayne he’ll meet Wonder Woman in her civilian guise as Diana, and as Batman he’ll watch her kick some ass as Wonder Woman.
At this point, I don’t know what more there is to say about this movie that hasn’t already been said. It looks like a Zack Snyder movie, way more so than even Man of Steel did. It will be an incredibly dark movie, and I mean that literally. Ben Affleck is probably doing a better job with Batman than he did with Daredevil, but that’s not saying a whole lot and there’s still something about his performance which just seems off. Henry Cavill and Amy Adams seem like they would have been better off getting their own proper Superman sequel. Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman threatens to steal the whole thing out from under everyone possibly just because what Batman and Superman are working through doesn’t seem as interesting as the movie thinks it is.
But it’s Batman and Superman. Of course I’ll see it.
We’ll have to wait and find that last one out when Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice comes out March 22, 2016.