11 Biggest Sins Of Batman v Superman

If you found Gene Hackman's portrayal of Lex Luthor too subtle, then here comes Jesse Eisenberg with a manic performance. It's like he watched Jim Carrey in Batman Forever and thought, "that's an amazing performance, I think I'll do the same thing."

But even beyond the horrid, over-the-top performance, what exactly is Lex Luthor's motivation for wanting Batman and Superman dead? Why is he pursuing these metahumans? None of this is ever explained in even the broadest of strokes.

At his library benefit party, Lex rants about the paradox of power. He tells Finch that the greatest lie is that power can ever be innocent. And when he finally confronts Superman, he rambles about how his dad beat him and how it made him realize that gods were either all-powerful and didn't care or did care and wasn't all powerful.

So what... God didn't stop Lex Sr. from beating him as a child and somehow this is all Superman's fault? Even by psychotic supervillain standards, that may be the flimsiest motivation ever.

And it's not like there wasn't motivation already built in. Lex should have been portrayed as the ultimate xenophobe, fearing the potential for alien invasion that Superman represented. And that fear should have driven all his actions.

Instead, they gave the xenophobe characteristic to Batman and Lex is left with confused ramblings about power and gods.