Batman v Superman: No Justice

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First I have to say that I am a fan of the original Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and the entire DCEU as a whole. I can admit that these movies do have their flaws, but I can appreciate that they are trying to do something different than Marvel. I think Zack Snyder is a tremendous director and was very excited when he announced that this would be his follow-up to "Man of Steel". In terms of visual and artistic style in Dawn of Justice, Zack Snyder delivered (despite the muted tones). In terms of story telling this movie showed where Snyder falters as a director. "No Justice" does its best to make this a much more focused cohesive story and succeeds. While their edits cannot fix every issue that arose in the film it does a tremendous job attempting so. This fan edit delivers a story focused on Batman's distrust of Superman after the events in Metropolis and manipulation created by Lex Luthor to create that distrust. Gone is the distracting subplot leading to formation of the Justice League. Gone is distracting side story of the mysterious Wonder Woman (even though she was on the highlights of the original film). And gone is the final confrontation with Doomsday that culminates with Superman's death (which deserved to be its own movie). Rather than having a film that attempts to be a Superman sequel, a Batman reboot, and a Justice League prequel, this fan edit delivers a film that focuses on first "big screen" meeting of the worlds most famous super heroes in pop-culture.

Obviously, there are still some issues that they couldn't completely erase, but they did their best to amend them. Jessie Eisenberg's Luthor is still strange and out of character, but the minimization of his role makes it far more tolerable. The "Martha" scene still remains, but is modified in a certain way to make it easier for the audience to connect with and relate to. Batman's kill count is all but eliminated and makes the character much more true to his comic book counter part.

Overall this a very well done fan edit that turned a movie that I enjoyed into a movie that I love. It's the first big screen meeting of Batman and Superman that we deserved to see. It takes the best parts of the original film (minus Wonder Woman) and puts them in much clearer focus while simultaneously minimizing/eliminating the worst parts of the film. I recommend this fan edit to people who fell on both sides on field. If you enjoyed the original I think you'll appreciate the much more focused version of the movie. And if you hated the original I think you'll enjoy seeing what could've been with a more compelling and cohesive story.

Turned a movie that was poorly paced and edited, with plots that were either difficult to follow or difficult to care into a really compelling and satisfying film. Thanks!

Batman v Superman Dawn Of Justice had left me disappointed and frustrated. While the Extended cut made the movie a little more comprehensible it was still a major let down with all the same issues, mainly a movie trying to essentially cram three movies worth of material into one.

Thank God then for Batman V Superman No Justice! Reese Evans masterfully edits a 3 hour plus bloated mess, into a nicely paced 2 hour movie, with a focused narrative, focusing purely on the central conflict between Batman and Superman.

Unfortunately there was no way around “Save Martha” and Jesse Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor performance. But there’s no unnecessary Wonder Woman cameo, no poorly executed Justice League intros, no Doomsday thus no death of Superman (which should of been it's own movie). And I even appreciate some of the edits to Batman's fight scenes, which now do not paint Batman out to be a sadistic killing machine.

In short this is the version of Batman V Superman we should of got in the first place.

Reese has done so much to improve this film it's uncanny. When watching this in theaters, I remember being shocked when Doomsday appeared, thinking to myself, "there's no way they could be introducing Doomsday and starting in on the Death of Superman storyline this late in the film, is there?" Well, Reese saw also that this portion of the movie had no place being in this film and managed to masterfully excise it while still making the film feel like it has an epic finale. Additionally, he tightened up the film by trimming off many unnecessary sequences and making Jesse Eisenberg's Lex Luthor as tolerable as is possible given the available footage. I do not foresee there being a better edit of Batman v Superman. Highly recommended to all DC fans.

Reese Evans has made complete magic with this film. The theater cut was a huge disappointment for me. With lackluster editing that tried to cram together parts of the movie along with completely unnecessary dream sequences that made no sense, with trailers for their next films that hurt the overall product. As a movie fan, I was completely disappointed with it. As a Batman fan I was devastated to see the badly characterization of Batman as a mass murderer as well. What Reese Evans has done is what I hoped the Ultimate Cut would do. This cut has made every single change I wanted, and made it in such a professional editing, it well could have been the theatrical cut. Amongst other things the magic of editing has made superman's self doubt far from the constant sadness. Made the Lois Lane subplot become the meaningful part of the film it should have always been. And the simple yet major change of Batman not killing regular criminals adds weight to his resolve to murder Superman, and makes the Martha scene much more meaningful. All in all, the No Justice Cut is indeed the Definitive Cut. And Reese's skill is undisputed.