DCEU: Ranking Every Big Fight Scene From Worst To Best

The highly-anticipated clash and subsequent team-up between the Man of Steel and the Dark Knight was an ambitious but poorly executed story with convoluted storytelling, murky visuals and a dull, lifeless tone that would have benefited from a lighter, more straightforward approach.

Its desire to launch a cinematic universe was its undoing; rushing to have a lived-in world with fully formed characters despite not laying the groundwork nor spreading the mythos in an organic manner across multiple films.

Its action scenes were bombastic but weightless; the titular clash being a brief, uninspired affair that was clunkily resolved and the showdown between the Trinity and the monstrous Doomsday being an unsightly mishmash of pixels. However, Batman's rescue of Martha Kent from Lex Luthor's mercenaries was a sublime example of the Dark Knight's fluid and brutal combat style rarely seen in previous incarnations of the character.

The takedown of Luthor's goons was reminiscent of the Arkham game series' own sleek fighting mechanics, down to the confrontation of multiple assailants at once and use of the grappling gun in actual combat.

Though the set-piece's motives were totally unearned and the use of lethal force was seen as untrue to the character's spirit, this scene was a reminder of how efficient, skilled and deadly Batman can be in a fight.