Comic-Con 2015: Batman V Superman Trailer Review

People have been saying that DC needed to bring it for comic-con this year, seeing as this is the last comic con before the film comes out, i think they did a good job. The first trailer set up a tone, an idea, but didn't give us much of a plot apart from at some point, Batman and Superman are going to fight. Here, we get...some more in terms of plot. Honestly i'm glad the focus of these trailers does seem to be the ideas behind the characters. Batman and Superman and their opposing ideologies and their personal stake in everything. Superman is now an established being on Earth but humanities reaction to him is still fresh, and he didn't exactly make the best first impression, a man who has the power of a god, is as dangerous as it is promising. Though i shouldn't get too drawn in, Man of Steel offered us similar ideas in analysing Superman and we didn't really get that. However, the idea of Bruce Wayne being there in Metropolis when it was being destroyed brings an emotional core to the fight scene in Man of Steel that it didn't have, rather than making the citizens of Metropolis feel like bowling pins, they're actual people in the middle of a disaster of 9/11 proportions.

While Batman in here looks more like Batman than any other version of Batman, the way he moves looks fluid enough that it seems like he can actually fight in that damn suit, but seriously, that suit looks incredible, whether Affleck will be able to pull the role off (He has my support) one thing is for sure, this is the best visual Batman we have ever seen realised on screen. As for the role he'll be playing, the only new information we got was the Metropolis scene, again, making the story much more personal for Bruce Wayne. Also the Joker/Robin reference was incredible, mostly because we don't know if it's Robin yet, but an old suit with "hahaha joke's on you Batman" so that is most definitely Joker.

We got a good look at Wonder Woman in action, granted it looks like her shots were all taken from the same scene, but i will say, for the first time so far, I feel like I am looking at Wonder Woman. When Gal Gadot was announced, I wasn't convinced, when we saw her in costume, I wasn't convinced. Even though we literally only got a few seconds of footage of her and no dialogue, so i could be completely wrong about this, but seeing her in action and her body language made me think "that is Wonder Woman". Lex Luthor has always been a risk, Jesse Eisenberg wasn't anyone's first choice, and while he still has that...Eisenberg-ness about him, that does go along with Lex Luthor's style. Luthor has always been a villain who is equally sinister as he is camp, he is over the top and deadly and is able to make flamboyancy so evil. This so far looks like he has that, he manipulates the powers on all sides to have them converge on each other, and with the line "the red capes are coming" is just the icing on the cake.

So that was the Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice trailer, it looks promising, it is my most anticipated movie of 2016, it will be released 25th March 2016 worldwide.

-Danny