Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Blu- ray. Sound and Fury. Reviewed by Michael Reuben, July 2. Warner's Blu- ray release of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (hereafter .
In an optimistic prediction, Warner has labeled this three- hour epic an . The release strategy smacks. Bv. S. No matter. Bv. S awaits. This aggressive marketing suits director Zack Snyder's divisive blockbuster, because, in whatever.
Bv. S is less a movie than a corporate strategy, a declaration of franchise war marketed as. Having watched with envy as Marvel and its producing partners built their comic. Marvel Cinematic Universe (or . But the overseers. That. company's strategy was meticulous: Step 1: Introduce a group of iconic superheroes in separate films that operate as chapters. Step 2: After their introduction, assemble Iron Man. Thor, the Hulk and Captain.
America (plus others) for. The Avengers, which served as a. Step 3: Repeat, while continuing to add new characters. Trying to accomplish too many things at once, Warner.
DC have done all of them poorly, and the problems can't be patched with deleted scenes. The theatrical cut of Bv.
S has been widely reviewed and its flaws extensively catalogued. Blu- ray. com colleagues Brian. Orndorf and Josh Katz, and I see no reason to. I'm more interested in what the additions in the director's cut reveal. Bv. S. The critical early sequence in which Lois Lane (Amy Adams) attempts to interview an African.
Superman (Henry Cavill) now makes sense. In the theatrical. Watch Good Kill (2015) The Movie Full Version.
Lex. Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg) is beginning to unfold. In the restored version, the players are now. Luthor's mercenaries, who are identified subsequently), and the process by. Superman is framed for a massacre is laid out systematically. As a result, when Lois. Superman were set up, her light- bulb moment now makes. More importantly, the African events now build logically into the fateful Congressional.
Sen. June Finch (Holly Hunter), which turns out to be the second phase in. Luthor's scheme to destroy both Superman and his reputation. Luthor's role as puppetmaster.
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Wayne. Enterprises employee, Wallace Keefe (Scoot Mc. Nairy), and of Kahina Ziri (Wunmi Mosaku), the. Superman. In the director's cut, the viewer gets enough information about.
Luthor's master plan to generate some genuine suspense. Also restored is Clark Kent's investigation of Batman's (Ben Affleck) activities in Gotham City. The extent of Kent's activities on this personal quest now provides context to the. Perry White (Laurence Fishbourne) about Kent's.
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Kent/Superman's disapproval of Batman's vigilante tactics also. Superman interrupts. Batman's pursuit of the kryptonite being transported to Lex. Corp. In the theatrical cut, the Man of. Steel's dire warning to the Caped Crusader (. Now Superman's threat has a basis, and the scene plays effectively as the. The interesting question is why these sequences were trimmed down to incomprehensibility in.
Why was narrative coherence sacrificed while other scenes were retained that not. Bruce Wayne's nightmare of. Superman- led armageddon, followed by his vision. Flash (Ezra Miller) delivering a message from the future, remain just. Wonder Woman's (Gal Gadot) review of the files gathered. Lex. Corp on Aquaman (Jason Momoa), Cyborg (Ray Fisher) and the Flash remains just as.
Bv. S's main action as it was in the theatrical cut, especially as it occurrs. Bv. S should be accelerating toward its climactic confrontation. At the risk of incurring the wrath of Wonder Woman's fans, I'll go one step further: Why retain. Wonder Woman's alter ego, Diana Prince, lurks on the outskirts. It's not as if Diana's pursuit of Lex.
Corp's file about her is essential, nor. Diana and Bruce Wayne do anything to. Wonder Woman's sole function in Bv. S is to hover in the background until she. Luthor's Doomsday creation. It's still filler in the director's cut, but at. Despite being more intelligible, Bv.
S's director's cut remains a long, tough slog, prompting. Even the occasional attempts at livening the. Far from curing the ills of Bv.
S, the added scenes unmask it for what it really. DCU entries, presented with maximum spectacle and sacrificing.
The. entertainment industry succeeds best when it places equal emphasis on both halves of the phrase. It would have jettisoned all of the Justice League distractions to focus. Luthor's scheme to set Batman and Superman at each other's throats, and it would have. It would have eliminated the. Luthor's genetically engineered Doomsday (which, let's not.
Gotham City to waste just as indiscriminately as Metropolis was wrecked in Man of. Steel, thereby restarting the cycle of tragedy and loss that first set Batman on the path of. And it would have left Wonder Woman to her own movie, which, as the Blu- ray extras. Instead, in both cuts of. Bv. S, the future Justice League is a mournful proposal that Batman tosses out to Wonder Woman. To make that leaner film, however, one would have to surrender Bv.
S's misguided aspiration to. The film's $8. 72 million worldwide box. Future filmmakers charged with expanding the DCU.
Bv. S's shaky foundation, but Bv. S itself is a lost. Behind- the- scenes clips in the. IMDb reports that Bv. S. The final product, including.
K, making Bv. S one of the rare. Warner features to be completed at the higher resolution. On Blu- ray, the theatrical and director's. AVC- encoded BD- 5.
Screenshots 1- 3. Additional. screenshots from the theatrical cut can be found accompanying the 3. D review. There is no difference in quality between the two presentations, and the new footage in the. Despite partial digital origination and copious CG.
Bv. S's presentation is noticeably film- like, with a finely visible grain pattern that is. Much of the action is set at night and in.
Batcave, with deep black shadows where detail is often still visible (and. On the rare occasion when colors are intense (e. Indian. Ocean scene when local divers make an important find), they stand out brightly. While some. viewers may find the cinematography's brooding atmosphere oppressive, that appears to be the. Blu- ray rendition. Warner's theatrical division continues to keep its average bitrates low, but in an ironic turn, the.
Mbps). The. difference is attributable to the fact that the director's cut does not have to share its disc with. HD extras. The busy imagery of Bv. S places heavy demands on the. Download Film Rough Night (2017).