Warner Bros.Let's get this out of the way straight away: Jesse Eisenberg's performance as Lex Luthor is diabolical, and not in a good way. The biggest selling point of his frenetic, chaotic dot com era supervillain in the marketing was that it seemed like an act; like it was going to be peeled away to reveal the superior, cold genius with a God complex. But no, that was way too artful and too subtle for this script, and we had to accept the hyperactive enfant terrible shtick was the only layer he has. He's playing the wrong character entirely: like he has the crib sheet for the Riddler and just tried to get as much of that into the character as he could, while stamping a bizarro Mark Zuckerberg into the DNA too. Eisenberg tried too many tiks and too many idiosyncracies that made his performance as over busy as the film it's in, and it is fatal that he has exhausted his welcome before we've even got to see him level up into the bald megalomaniac everyone expected. Instead he now looks like a crazed Darkseid groupie.
