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While Ben Affleck’s Batman/Bruce Wayne still gets plenty of screen-time, he never feels like he’s taking over the movie, and thus his angry “God-Damn Batman” routine isn’t as insufferable.

This material, along with bits and pieces for other supporting characters and plenty of connective tissue, makes the movie better and makes Clark and Lois into more active/interesting characters. We also get more screen-time for Clark Kent as he travels to Gotham and does actual journalism concerning the Batman menace as well as slightly more 'Superman being Superman.' This includes a two-scene cameo by Jena Malone as Lois's lab tech friend who single-handedly allows the movie to pass the Bechdel Test. Much of the new material involves Lois Lane actively digging up proof of Luthor’s complicity while just giving her more tangential footage. The third act is almost the same, save for more action violence, a longer/better funeral montage, and an unnecessary extension of the Lex Luthor/Batman prison conversation. But the first two acts are frankly much improved, while not taking away anything from the stuff that worked the first time (like Jesse Eisenberg's holier-than-thou Luthor and the crazy dream sequences). But, that’s a “mistake” concerning financial considerations, but not necessarily a mistake in terms of “art.” Disconnected by financial and world-building requirements, this cut is an ambitious three-star oddity that somewhat qualifies as 'good.'

As a would-be universe opener, it is almost hilariously misguided, and that the film only makes sense by the addition of even more violence is a testament to that. The mistake was in allowing Zack Snyder and friends to make a Batman v Superman like this in the first place. The mistake here wasn’t in not releasing this superior version of Batman v Superman into worldwide theatrical release. I am not so stupid to recommend something similar for Dawn of Justice. Sucker Punch should have gone out into release in its original 124-minute R-rated version. That fantasy (which I like more than you) was an R-rated movie that had to get whittled down into the PG-13 box, leaving a less comprehensible PG-13 theatrical cut that nonetheless felt like an R-rated movie. This film ironically suffered from the same problem as Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch. There is no way in hell that Warner would have released this version into theaters, and it’s silly to presume otherwise. After all, this “Ultimate Edition” is still a three-hour and very R-rated Superman movie. should have released this version into theaters three months ago either. That also means that I am not going to rant about how Warner Bros./Time Warner Inc.

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