What’s clear is that not everyone sees Superman as a hero, given the appalling fallout of the Earth’s latest extraterrestrial invasion, and some are out for blood. But at least director Zack Snyder has seen fit to use the devastation of the great city as a springboard for the events of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, even if the introduction of a hearing featuring Holly Hunter’s supercilious senator feels a little too close to similar scenes in Iron Man 2 for comfort. In many ways, the epic conclusion felt like a hamfisted attempt to go one step further than the dramatic finale of rival Marvel’s The Avengers a year earlier, in which New York was partly destroyed by an alien invasion. One of the biggest criticisms of Man of Steel was the film’s blitzkrieg denouement, in which Superman battled General Zod against a backdrop of Metropolis’s near-destruction by the Kryptonian villain’s brutal “world engine”. ![]() ![]() Saving mankind from extinction was never going to be enough
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