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Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice early reviews…

In case you haven’t looked, Rottentomatoes.com as of yesterday started posting reviews for the very soon to be released Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice aaaaaaaannnnnnddddd…

The reviews so far -from movie critics- aren’t all that great.  At this moment (though they haven’t gotten a “concensus” yet), the movie is scoring a below mediocre 41% among critics…

Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Rottentomatoes reviews

The breakdown is as follows: Of the 66 reviews released so far, 27 are favorable and 39 are not, hence the 41% rating.

There will be more reviews posted and I suspect the ratings might rise and/or fall a little before there are enough ratings available for the site to state there is a good enough sampling.

However, based on the rather large number (66 reviews is pretty high, IMHO) of ratings so far, I wouldn’t be surprised if the number stays roughly in that neighborhood, hovering somewhere around 50% approval/disapproval.

I remain curious to see the film and, while I’ve tried to avoid the actual written reviews for fear of the movie being “spoiled” (as was done to me about one big aspect of Spectre) I did see one review that was disheartening wherein the reviewer stated that if you’ve seen one of the trailers (I’m guessing one of the longer ones) you’ve essentially seen a condensed version of the movie.

That sucks.

Sometimes I wonder what goes through the minds of the movie studios when they put together trailers for their films…and sometimes go way too far in revealing elements of the film.

A while back I did a post regarding trailers that gave away too much (you can read it here).  I would reiterate what I said in that particular post: Of all the trailers I’ve seen, the one that for me “ruined” a film the most has to be the one for Terminator 2.

If you were to see the first Terminator and then put on Terminator 2 without knowing anything at all about either film, you would likely have been shocked when in T2 it was suddenly revealed the “bad guy” Terminator from the first film was actually good this time.  Director James Cameron was obviously playing with the audience’s expectations and wanted to surprise them when it was revealed who was bad and who was good.

Which makes the trailer released for that film all the more head-scratching…

I mean, why give away the movie’s biggest surprise in advance?!  It made absolutely no sense.

I just hope the review I read about Superman v. Batman proves not to be true.

3/24 Update:

A day later, rottentomatoes.com has a “consensus” rating for the movie and, alas, the critical reaction has taken a turn downward.  The film as of today scores a poor 33% approval among critics (47 liked it, 94 didn’t).  On the other hand, the film enjoys a healthy 80% positive among movie-goers who have seen the film thus far.

Though I didn’t mean to, there was another of those reviews that kinda stopped me in place, one that stated (and I can only paraphrase as I don’t have the exact quote) Batman v. Superman was essentially a long commercial for future DC superhero movies.

Ouch.

On the other hand, Andrew O’Hehir at Salon.com liked it…

Best ever superhero movie (in terms of fabrics): It’s god vs. psycho

Of the current crop of professional reviewers out there I happen to enjoy Mr. O’Hehir more than most and his take on the film (it is spoiler free) is amusing and interesting and, yes, he does like the film!