I have to say that I'm glad I caught this one. I wasn't ecstatic when it finished but it did have some hooks that surprised me and I did appreciate it. It's basically a thinly veiled story to accomplish a couple of fight scenes and some impressions. The special effects were actually legit. If you can make a fan film that's better than most of the old Batman or Superman movies that's hardly really saying much. A number of those actual movies were just terrible.
Fan films are getting kind of common and over done. This one has a little bit more polish than most even if it is a bit long. However if you're a really fan who digs this kind of thing I doubt the running time will be an issue.
Keith Stahle writes and directs this fan salute that seems to like the idea of spot lighting some favorite aspects from the old movies and slamming it into one. The guy who played Bane looked really cool and I wanted him to talk more. Unfortunately this whole thing is kind of a predictable excuse to see a quick fight scene with Superman having no powers. Which I get I guess. Special Effects Superman is hard when your flying shots look only slightly more evolved than the 1950's TV show. Still it's kind of trite until Joker and Harley steal the show. I have to say I liked a lot of the Joker-Harley relationship better in this than in Suicide Squad, that's for sure. The Clark Kent was definitely the Superman pretending to be a klutz version which was fun to see as it's completely void in the Cavill version. I wish this movie was the tour DE force Bane with venom powers versus Superman with Super- powers. Could even go for some krypton or other weapon at some point. Alas this is not the right budget to accomplish that. If you can get over that expectation it is quite watchable. I liked it more often then I didn't. There's a weird twist in Clark's perspective in the way he views Lana that is actually pretty Trippe and I wonder if most people will pick up on it. He seems to be fixated on a past incarnation of her instead of seeing her as she is. The multiple part casting in the guy and girl leads make for some wacky parallels between Clark/Lana/Lois and then to Joker and Harley cause it's all the same actor and actress talking back and forth. It makes the movie a little different and slightly more memorable than most and I'm sure some people won't think of the parallel implications that I did. I didn't mind it cause it made me think about some similarities between the good and evil characters and therefore served as an original dynamic if you view it with some insight. My advise is check this one out. If you don't expect too much from it you might not be let down.
