5 Best & 5 Worst Comic Book Movie Reboots
4. WORST - Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice
Now, Batman v Superman is obviously the supposedly direct sequel to Man Of Steel, but in actual fact, it's also - simultaneously - a Batman reboot. After Christopher Nolan's superlative Dark Knight trilogy, Zack Snyder was handed the opportunity to revamp Batman for his franchise without the need for exposition-heavy solo stand-alone movies.
That came at the cost of Superman, whose direct sequel was smushed together with the more marketable Batman Vs Superman dynamic (despite it being more interesting in the end). And to a certain extent, because of the compromise on his story, this felt like a soft reboot for him too beyond mentions of the collateral damage from the climactic battle in Man Of Steel.
Ben Affleck was actually pretty good as Batman, but he was a horrible Bruce Wayne, whose one thing is blending in. When you're clearly a hulking muscle man whose approach to detective work involves wandering around prohibited areas like a bull in a china shop, you're never going to blend into anything.
Fundamentally, Dawn Of Justice fails as a sequel to Man Of Steel, as a Batman reboot AND as a precursor to Justice League (since it set a model that plunged the follow-up into a dead-end). Not a strong move for the REAL start of the DCEU.