Batman Vs Superman Ultimate Cut Is BETTER than the original!

The ‘Batman V Superman Dawn Of Justice’ that released in March this year left a bitter taste in the mouth of every fan that walked out of the theater. BvS clumsily failed critically and commercially at the box office. Some agreed upon the evident plot holes, haphazard cuts, and time jumps while others argued ‘the canon’ of the comics. The Ultimate Edition which released earlier this week consists of 30 minutes of unseen footage from the 2 hours 30 minutes long runtime of the theatrical release. And to everyone’s shock and surprise, the movie is actually good now. The Ultimate Edition is the Dawn we have all been waiting for after the darkest night! Zach Snyder received harsh criticism for his original ‘post 9/11 alien invasion’ take of Superman, grounded in real life scenarios and tackling themes of life and death with his previous endeavor Man Of Steel. The director found himself fending off angry fans ranting about the anarchic third act destruction in Man Of Steel. Defeated, he took a step back and promised that Batman V Superman would do much more service to the fans and naysayers and Superman will be held accountable for the destruction. After BvS released earlier this March we could only watch as the world ripped his film to shreds, critics and fans alike. Zach Snyder still reassured us that Justice League would be giving us more answers. The DC Extended Universe is only 2 films but has sparked opinions in every moviegoer’s mind becoming the most reactionary franchise in recent memory. But before Justice League Zach Snyder, as a final attempt to rekindle hope proclaims to fans that his Director’s Cut or Ultimate Edition is the most accurate representation of his vision. And against all odds, all rational expectations, all ideological sense- Its Good. Now let’s not get completely carried away, it’s still sort of messy and the ‘Martha’ scene still exists but it’s quite a relief to know that there is a version the film that we will actually enjoy. The most frequent nagged upon error in the movie is the haphazard editing. The flow from scene to scene was incoherent and the story did not add up completely. Motivations for characters were blinded and the main villain’s grand plan seemed quite irrelevant. The big question that fans pondered upon was “Does Superman Have Enough Motivation To Fight Batman?” This cut precisely solves all of those problems by adding those ‘cut’ scenes of Superman in the movie. Suddenly with what seems like just a few lingering transition shots and added dialogue the movie suddenly transforms into a notable accomplishment. Suddenly Superman’s story arc isn’t stupid and shrill. Lois Lane isn’t just a face in the movie and murderous, psychopathic Batman makes sense. The movie isn’t without its minor drawbacks, the ‘Martha’ sequence is still a drag and Jesse Eisenberg is still pretty annoying. Who knew that just a few minutes more of the Africa scene, an added subplot of a woman named Kahira, a simple conversation between two police officers, a comment by a homeless man, a few more dialogues of Clark Kent and a little blood splatter could have made Batman V Superman a good still not great movie. It’s ironic that all it took was the cutting of details from this enormous hunk of a movie to annihilate it. When you have dozens of problems with the movie, this surely will address most of your problems but not all. It just makes it easier to overlook the rest of the problems. So rejoice we can now erase the existence of the theatrical version of the movie from our minds, we can send it to the phantom zone because this is a superior movie compared to the one we all watched in March.

Murtaza Rangwala

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