Batman V Superman: 13 Biggest Blunders Zack Snyder Makes That Completely Ruin It

10. It Ignores Its Best Ideas

Faint praise here, but there are some good ideas in Batman V Superman; isolated moments of smarts that show some real ingenuity, but are sadly ignored by the film. Some non-spoiler ones that really stuck out for me were Diana Prince wincing as an oblivious, self-aggrandising Lex made coy statements about Zeus and Bruce Wayne lamenting in the ruins of Wayne Manor how he's already older than his father, yet despite showing us the humanity beneath these icons, they were swiftly swept away, not used as later motivation or even given time to develop into a full character beat.

There's plenty more, and they're all treated in the same way. It's not like the film couldn't have taken the time to do them justice, it just doesn't seem to really know what its got, instead running other less interesting but still curious concepts (a hearing about Superman's autonomy) into the ground (and even then that's without ever really getting to the heart of the issue).

It's part of the bigger issue with the story, but the fact it runs throughout the film only goes to show how choppy everything is.