Batman v Superman: Dawn Of The Justice (2016)

Batman v Superman: Dawn Of The Justice also known as Man Of Steel 2: World's Finest is the sequel to 2013's Man Of Steel. It is directed by Zack Snyder and the music soundtrack score will be done by Hans Zimmer who has done scores for The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Dark Knight Rises, and Man Of Steel.

Cast

 * Henry Cavill as Clark Kent/Superman
 * Ben Affleck as Bruce Wayne/Batman
 * Amy Adams as Lois Lane
 * Jessie Eisenburg as Alexander "Lex" Luthor
 * Benedich Cumberbatch as John Corben/Metallo
 * Neil Patrick Harris as Jimmy Olsen
 * John Leguizamo as Tony Gallo
 * Jeremy Irons as Alfred Pennyworth
 * Gal Gadot as Diana Prince/Wonder Woman
 * Ray Fisher as Victor Stone (cameo and ending)
 * Lawerance Fishburne as Perry White
 * Diana Lane as Martha Kent
 * Denzel Washington as Lucius Fox (cameo)

Plot
After the destructive mess in Metropolis caused by the attacking Kryptonians and Superman, LexCorp of Metropolis, owned by Alexander "Lex" Luthor, and Wayne Industries, owned by playboy Bruce Wayne, fund to clean up the city. Lex is planning something big, which is killing Superman, being the person who hates Superman the most. Bruce Wayne, doning his Batsuit again, strikes on Superman too, but does not yet know Luthor's pure evilness.

Story
The film begins with playbacks in 1996 in Gotham City where reporters talk about if the new figure, Batman, should be trusted or not. The reporter says, "Well, this Bat-Man person takes out criminals in the night such as the biggest threats the Joker, Poison Ivy, Bane, Riddler, an---" The screen immediatly switches to in 2013, where reporters are talking about if the alien from Krypton, Superman, should be trusted or not. A reporter says, "Well, I'm standing here near a broken down building and should we trust this alien?"

Flashbacks go on screen where it shows civilians running for their lives when Superman and General Zod attacked Metropolis. The screen fades black where Gotham City in 1997 was experiencing an infection caused by the Joker and Harley Quinn. It fades black again and the sign on the movie says the title name.

Billionaire Industrailist, Alexander "Lex" Luthor comes on stage to a debate on Superman. It is already a year after the incident and he says, "Well, this alien just destroyed more than half of Metropolis. Some guy dressed up in skin-tight red and blue and is an alien? He can't be trusted." Someone from the audience yells, "But Lex, remember he saved that family?" Lex replies, "What family? That does not make me change my mind about him. Who's with me? Who wants to save this city and does not want this alien with us anymore." More than half of the audience agrees...

In Cennitial Park in Metropolis, Clark Kent and Lois Lane are walking together, then observing a statue built to honor Superman in the Kryptonian attack a year ago. Lois goes on by saying, "I believe in you." She is one of the few people that trust Superman (mostly because he is her boyfriend). They continue walking and talking. It seems that Clark has tooken many pictures and written stories about Superman taking down criminals that he recieved over $900 over the year. He decides to use this money to buy an apartment for him and Lois.

It cuts to the Daily Planet, where a photographer comes into Perry White's office and says, "Sir, there is a new guy who wants to apply for the job." He brings in Jimmy Olsen, a shy, awkward, but very intellegent and generous man. He feels awkward because of the awkward situation he is in with Perry. Just then, Clark walks into the room and Perry accepts Olsen. Clark then shows Jimmy around the building, becoming friends with him after getting to know each other while walking around. Lois comes in the building too, becoming aquainted with Olsen. Kent then goes to White's office and he urgently tells him that a man named John Corben is about to commit suicide on the top of a roof in Metropolis. He tells Clark, "Get a picture of it fast!" Clark then talks back and yells how "wrong" it will be to take a picture of a man falling to his death. Lois then says, "Call the cops, now!" Clark then secretly dresses up as Superman, changes his hair and takes off his glasses. He flies up to the rooftop Corben is at. He then sees John holding a gun to his forehead and standing with one leg only, attempting to kill himself. Superman explains to him how killing will not help solve problems and he begins encouraging him, but Corben disses his moral and tells Superman, "I'll jump off anyway. Because of you!" Superman begins to look shocked and John explains how he lost his wife, family, and mansion during the Kryptonian attack on Earth. Superman says sorry for his loss, but he jumps off quickly when distracting Superman. Clark sees him gone and he says, "NOOO!" He looks down, spotting Corben's dead body. People round up to him, looking up at Superman, blaming him for the death.

A meeting begins with Perry White, Lex Luthor, and Bruce Wayne of Gotham City. They are going over the facts of Superman and Lex goes on and on about how they should get rid of him. Perry then is revealed to be on Superman's side, being another person that believes in him. They have a long discussion and Bruce Wayne says how he funded on Daily Planet with Wayne Industries. He does not trust the alien either, so him and Lex propose a plan to make a $100,000,000 investment to clean up the city. Lex then pychotically says to Bruce and Perry, "I'll make sure to get rid of this! I have to! I can see his blood and his veins on my hand. Everyone in this city will---" Bruce interupts by saying, "That's enough, Luthor. We need to---" Lex then angrily yells, "Don't you see? You're a drunken man, Bruce. Shut up!" The meeting then urgently ends with Bruce Wayne spooked by Luthor's odd behavior. Perry then tells Bruce, "Sir, get out of here." Bruce leaves the Daily Planet, going back to his apartment he rented to stay in Metropolis for a year as planned to clean up the city. He calls his butler, Alfred Pennyworth, a man who has served Bruce and the Wayne family after Bruce's parents died, making him still haunted. He thinks about when he was still the vigilante, Batman, having it revealed that he was the Caped Crusader in 1995-2009, but has retired. Alfred tells him, "Sire, what do you need?" The screen goes back-and-forth with Alfred in Gotham and Bruce in Metropolis. He shares with Alfred how him and Alexander Luthor is cleaning up with city with money investment. Alfred then warns him about how Luthor might not be trusted. Bruce Wayne listens to him, but decides he doesn't have time to look if Lex is evil or not because he has a "big investment" in his hands. It is alo revealed that Gotham and Metropolis are only 100 miles away from each other.

A day later after Lex went mad at the meeting with Perry White and Bruce Wayne, his agents at LexCorp give him a photo shot of a man named John Corben dead by comitting suicide. Lex then tells his agents, "Bring him in..." His agents are "nuts" because they stored Corben's disturbingly dead body in a box. They give it to Lex. Luthor then thinks for a minute, saying, "Let me think a bit, gentlemen. Call Gallo in here." Tony Gallo, a high LexCorp secret thug, is called in to Lex's office. He is then commanded to steal some Kryptonian artifacts that landed on Earth. No one knows what Lex is planning, but he is up to no good for sure.

Lois meets with Perry, who is feeling paranoid and uneasy around Lex. Jimmy Olsen interupts, where he comes in, telling White that there is a huge LexCorp truck in Metropolis, heading to a warehouse. It seems the artifacts are there and that "a criminal, Tony Gallo, is driving to steal it". Clark dresses up as Superman after super-hearing sirens. He flies to the warehouse, right before Tony Gallo shoots many cops down to the death. He successfully steals the Kryptonian artifacts, driving away on his truck. Superman lands on his truck, breaking the window, taunting Gallo for a while. Then, he rips off the engine, pulling Gallo out of the way. Superman flies away and the cops in Metropolis begin riding to the warehouse, but before they arrive. Lex and his agents quickly come into the scene and picks up the Kryptonian artifacts. They steal it and 2 minutes later, the cops arrive, seeing the artifacts gone.

Wayne calls in his private jet to take a trip back to Gotham to get his stuff at his industries. The screen fades black, it showing him arriving there. Lex then calls him in his office and he says, "Hey, Wayne. Look I'm sorry if I was a little pychotic at that meeting we had a couple days ago. I just want him gone." Bruce then says, "Okay, Luthor. But you got to take it easy." After talking, he hangs up after a civilian named, Diana Prince, barges into his office and says, "Give me it back!" Bruce is confused and says he does not know what she is talking about. She says, "You stole it from my people." The complaining goes on and on, but Bruce Wayne calls his advisors to escort Prince out of Wayne Enterprises. The two apparently know each other, having Bruce Wayne look at a sword that spells, "Amazon", on it.

Clark brings back the good news in the Daily Planet that he has stopped Tony Gallo and left him trapped for the police. The whole building appluads for him, with Jimmy Olsen saying that he also got good pictures of the crime scene, but he is ignored and disrespected. It seems Clark heard him, deciding that they both should become partners. Lois then tells the two of them that Metropolis University is going head-to-head with Gotham University college football teams. The three decide that they want to buy tickets to watch the game. Meanwhile, Lex Luthor brings the artifacts into his lab in LexCorp. He scans the artifacts and they have seemed to have fallen from Krypton decades ago when the Fortress of Solitude came to Earth. The artifacts are called, Kryptonite, pieces of rocks from Krypton that can affect Kryptonians. Luthor then gets an idea on how to defeat Superman. He decides to use one of the Kryptonite on Corben's dead body. He smiles, revealing that he will cut open John's chest to put Kryptonite on it in order to send him out to face Superman himself. One of Luthor's agents tell him that pieces of the Kryptonian, General Zod's, armor has been spotted on top of LexCorp's roof. It is there because Zod broke out his armor during his battle with Kal'El. They bring it to Lex.

Metropolis University and Gotham University warm up for their football game battle. Lois, Jimmy, and Clark get access into the suite because they tell the receptionist that they are from the Daily Planet. Everyone in the audience is cheering for the famous quarterback of Metropolis, Victor Stone, a really strong and confident african-american player. During half-time, Bruce Wayne goes on the field, announcing his funding project called "The Genesis Project" with Lex Luthor to clean up Metropolis. The football teams and the crowd begin clapping loudly, while Jimmy and Lois both agree that Bruce seems to be a very generous man and that Lois wants to interview him.

Luthor is has successfully replaced Corben's chest with Kryptonite and his bones with metal. He tells him, "Metallo, wake up." He can control him and from the power of the Kryptonite and how hard Lex and his scientists worked on it, Corben is corrupted, doning himself as Metallo. He has super strength because of his metal bones.

Bruce travels back to his rented apartment in Metropolis, where he has brang in hsi butler and trusty friend, Alfred. Alfred asks him if Superman has inspired Bruce to recover his "persona" as the Batman and he thinks for a little bit. Elsewhere, Diana Prince is watching the news on her television in her apartment. She thinks to herself, "By Themyscira, I need to get back that sword." It is then oddly revealed that she is the princess of the royal continent, Themyscira, working with her Amazon warriors. Her secret superhero name is Wonder Woman, who is a superhero that holds a lasso, shield, and sword, fighting justice. Lois knocks on her door, revealing that the two are best friends. They talk to each other, while watching the news and she asks Lois, "Do you know who this Superman is?" Lois stays silent for a little bit and says, "Can you keep a secret?" Diana nods and Lois tells her it is---

Then, it cuts to Superman, who is flying around Metropolis. He sees a disturbance nearby where Metallo is taunting people. Kal'El looks closely at his face, realizing Metallo is John Corben. Corben throws a car at Superman, but he lifts it up, telling the people to get to safety, throwing it at Metallo. He then notices that Metallo is almost as strong as he is. Superman lasers him, but he blocks it and Superman tries to ask John what happened to him. He pulls out his jacket, revealing the Kryptonite in his chest. Superman goes down, getting weakened. He tries to get up, but he keeps coughing. A police shoots at Metallo and he walks over there, attempting to kill the cop, but Superman stands up, freezing him, tackling him into the air, and they fight. Superman punches him three times, but then Metallo weakens him again. The fight draws the attention of Diana Prince, Lois Lane, Perry White, and Bruce Wayne. Diana abandons Lois and she puts on her Amazon suit and her weapons. Superman lasers Metallo's head, but then he is even more weakened. Metallo is about to jump and kick Superman, but Wonder Woman comes in and shield bashes him. She can fly, so she chases Metallo as he can also fly. She stabs his robotic body in the back with her sword, kicking him, pulling him with his lasso, and asking him who he works for. She then gets kicked and says, "This is your last chance." She gets punched 100 feet away, landing on Superman. The fight ends and Superman and Wonder Woman look at each other. She seems to know his identity because of Lois Lane. Meanwhile, Bruce is now in Gotham, where he goes back to Wayne Manor. Under there is the Batcave, the old place where Batman and his old sidekicks such as the Robins (Dick Grayson, now a hero named Nightwing, Jason Todd, who was killed by the Joker, Tim Drake, now a vigilante named RED Robin, and Stephanie Brown, a female Robin) and Batgirl (Barbara Gordon, who was paralyzed by Joker and now in peace resting) trained and had Batman do some detective work. Bruce says to himself, "I need to get out that suit." He calls in his Batwing, where he stores two suits; his original one, which is black all over with a cape and has a cowl and one he stole from the Fortress of Solitude, making him be able to fight Kryptonians. Bruce puts on his normal suit, doning the Batsuit once again, flying back to Metropolis.

In Perry's office, he tells Lois and Jimmy that they need to spy on Lex Luthor because Perry believes that Luthor is up to no good. Olsen and Lane get ready to head to LexCorp. They head inside. Just then, people of Metropolis get frightened when they see a bat-shaped hellicopter flying in the night in Metropolis. A person asks who that is and someone yells, "Batman is back!" But people are also confused why he is in Metropolis and not in Gotham City. Batman jumps off the ship, making it land. 5 guards ontop of LexCorp hear him, but he puts out one of his gadgets, a loud radiation sound. It distracts them and Batman brutally takes them down by punching a guard many times, grappling another one, and shoving them together. It goes back to Lois and Jimmy, who are still holding their cameras, trying to reach where Luthor is. A guard yells, "Put your hands behind your back!" The security alarm rings, but immediatly after that happens, Batman disrupts it, jumping on the guy, and kicking him down, suprising Jimmy and Lois. The two say, "Please, we mean no harm." Batman stays silent, running away. Lex then tells one of his agents, "Did I just hear something? Something like an alarm." Behind his back, Batman is silently stealthing down the LexCorp guards. Lex then decides to forget about it, continuing the make his suit he found of General Zod. Lois and Jimmy reach him, struggling to stay hidden. Jimmy points his camera and Lois silently tells him to watch out. They then spy on Luthor, where he seems to be modifying Zod's suit, making it bigger, a slight green color made of 10% Kryptonite, with a laser, and many shooting gadgets. He puts himself onto the big suit, saying evily, "Let's go catch Superman." Batman is then crawling out a vent, putting on his crawling gloves, crawling on LexCorp, spying on him. Lex heavily walks to the roof, but then he spots Olsen and Lois flashing their cameras. He is then, "Well, well. If it isn't photographers from the Planet. Take a picture of this; your death." Batman then jumps through the building, putting an explosive batarang on Luthor's mech-suit. He then grows unconscious, having time for Lois and Jimmy to run for their lives. Batman then says to Luthor, "You're over, Luthor. I have found you doing something illegal." Lex then wipes the blood out of his face, chuckling and saying, "What other way do you think I should get rid of Superman?" Batman replies, "Justice is the way. Take him down, but do not kill him." Lex then shoots him, but he dodges every missile he shoots at him. Batman kicks him in the face, trying to find the "off-button" of his suit. There seems to be none, but Batman then drops a smoke pellet on the ground, having Lex cough, then Batman punches him in the face 5 times. Lex then flies away. Batman realizes that Lex has built such a strong armor that Batman cannot even defeat because when they were fighting, all Batman was doing was tricking him, using his techniques, and subduing him in the face.

Clark sees how Lois seems very awkward when she walks into the Planet. She tells Kal'El that she spied on Lex the other night. Now she knows he wants to kill Superman. Later, Perry eventually prints the papers and shares with Metropolis the evil Lex Luthor. Lex reads the paper, becoming angry.

Bruce flies his Batwing back to the Batcave. He researchs more on Superman. He uses his Bat-Computer where he sees a red light flashing. He sees how Superman's real parents died in Krypton. Batman then feels sympathy on him because his parents died caused by criminal, Joe Chill. After he discovers more about Superman, he looks at how Superman and Zod hit on the Wayne Enterprises Satalite in space when they were going head-to-head. He also looks at a security camera in the Metropolis Airport, where he sees Superman kill Zod. He is glad that Superman saved that innocent family from dying, but the audio is turned off, so he assumes Kal'El killed Zod on purpose. He then increases his hates on Superman. He thinks to himself that Superman needs to be taken into justice. He puts on his high-tech Kryptonian Bat-Suit in order to stop Kal'El. Batman rides on his Batmobile, speeding up to a limit of 190 miles, making it fly, so that the transportation back to Metropolis can be easier.

At the party, Lois Lane attends as a guest and Clark Kent is attending because Lois payed for her and Clark. Jimmy seems not to have so much money yet from the Planet, but he comes into the building because he says he needs to take pictures for the news. Lex Luthor is then seen all perfect, but he has shaved his black hair and became bald. No one knows why, but then he gets up on stage. He says, "Hello, ladies and gentlemen. I'm glad to be standing out here today. Because the Genesis Project is working out. Bruce and I have not been talking lately, but I will get him here soon. With this alien in this beloved city, can we already have enough? Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you; Metallo." Metallo's skin has torn off because Lex wanted to show Corben his metal bones. Now Clark sees the Kryptonite, getting weakened, but Lois tries to get him up. Blinds cover Metallo, so now Clark struggles to get up, quickly suiting up as Superman. From under the stage, Lex's battle suit goes straightly onto him, having him laser someone, killing the person. He says, "Anyone else?" Superman gets angry, tackling Lex, fighting in the air while flying. Lex punches Superman, landing in Centinneal Park. Superman lasers Lex, but he blocks it, and he wind breathes him. Lex starts taking the upper hand after he pulls out a Kryptonite; he punches Clark, having blood run out of his mouth, then kicks him, but Superman flies, punching him underground, then tackling him upwards. Batman lands his Batmobile safely on the Metropolis streets, now running over Lex's battle suit. Lex is down for a little bit, while Batman (with his high-tech Kryptonian suit) and Superman look at each other as if they were going to a dramatic face-to-face. Wonder Woman flies in, deciding to help Kal'El. All three look at each other, but Lex then shoots Diana, but she blocks it with her metal hand. Superman flies, hitting Batman, but he then picks him up throwing him and putting on his flying Batsuit sequence. WW follows them, Batman tries to grab her with his grappling gun, but she blocks it, and Batman takes her shield. She bashes him, whispering to him, "Give the sword back to my people, Wayne!" The Caped Crusader then punches her, throwing a tree at her with his Kryptonian suit strength. Superman and Batman then punch each other, but Luthor follows them, bringing them all back down to the park. Jimmy Olsen comes into the scene to take pictures, but Lex is about to destroy it with his trick-beam, then Kal'El freezes it, blocking Lex's punch, then punching very far. Jimmy utterly and nervously moans, "Thanks, Superman." Superman says, "No problem, Jimmy." Olsen is then very excited that his hero knows his name. Before Batman sticks out the Kryptonite Batarang into Superman's face, he scans the Caped Crusader's suit, then he sees Bruce Wayne. He finds out that Wayne IS Batman, but the Batman throws Kryptonite Batarangs at him constantly, then Superman is weakened. Wonder Woman pulls him with her lasso, then Batman breaks it, punching her, having blood squirt out of her nose. Lex comes back up, tackling Batman, then he uses a disrupter, weakening Lex's battle suit temporarily. Superman flies away, having Lex down, then Wonder Woman grabs Batman, taking him to a secret allyway. Batman says, "No more fighting, Diana. I need to know who this Superman guy is? Who is he?" Prince then angrily says, "No, I'm not telling you, Bruce. You need to give me back the 'Sword Of Ares' (Ares is the god of war and archnemesis to the Amazonians in Themyscira) for my people. Then, I'll tell you who he is."

Diana and Bruce fly into Wayne Enterprises, where Bruce enters his secret chamber in his closet, then he gives Diana the "Sword Of Ares". Diana then tells Wayne that Clark Kent is Superman, along with describing his origins such as his job at the Daily Planet, his weakness, his family (more particularly, his foster mom, Martha Kent).

Clark wakes up in the morning, having to see Lois already up and ready to work at the Daily Planet. She seems to be getting ice for Clark. He is confused, having to forgot about everything that happened the other night. Lois explians how they were at that fancy gala, listening to Lex's speech, but then Lex showed everyone his 'true colors', then she explains how he had a very epic battle with Batman and Luthor, helped by how Lois described, "a woman with a kingdom-like suit, stripper boots, a sword, a rope, and a shield." Lois chuckles and says, "And you saved Jimmy from getting fired because everyone in the Planet, as I heard of, is now cheering for him becuase Lex was about to breaks his camera, and you saved him! (grins)" Clark laughs, but then he hears a knocking on their apartment door. He opens it, seeing Alfred Pennyworth. Alfred then says, "Hello, gentleman and young woman, would any of you folks like to donate money for a charity to the 'Wayne's Home Foundation Of Orphans' from Gotham City?" Clark smiles, giving Alfred $50, then he asks Pennyworth, "By the way, what's your name?" Alfred replies, "I am Alfred Pennyworth, butler of the Wayne family, currently for Bruce Wayne." Clark then has a thinking mind a little bit after Alfred nicely says bye to Clark and Lois.

Bruce is at the Daily Planet, walking to White's office to discuss an important matter with him, but Clark bumps into him, dropping his glasses. They look at each other because both know their secret indentities, but does not know that the other person knows that. Bruce comes into Perry's office to discuss to him about Lex Luthor and how the 'Genesis Project' may be cancelled because Wayne knows his butler was right; that maniac cannot be trusted. Perry says, "Don't worry, Wayne. I'll call in my most trusted writer." Perry calls into another office in the Planet and says, "Hey, Tasha, can you call in Lois Lane in my office?" Bruce smiles, then Lois comes into the office and Perry says, "Hey Lane, this might sound a little crazy, but we need to expose Lex---" She then says, "What? Really?" He then replies, "Yes, I just said so. We believe he wants to do something evil regarding on getting rid of Superman. Remember that whole 'Metallo' bot shit yesterday night? It's like that. I need you to start printing against the evil man." Lois nods, heading to her writing table.

On the rooftop of a building in Metropolis, Clark is standing there, looking into the beautiful night skyline of his beloved city. He then quickly changes into Superman, taking a fly around the city. While he is flying peacefully, the peace ends when an anonymous caller calls him. He says, "Hello?" The other end has a dead silent, but then he says, "Come to Gotham, Clark." Kal'El is suprised, noticing it is Bruce's voice and he says, "This is Bruce Wayne right? Look, I know you're the Batman. We don't have to fight." Bruce then says, "Listen, Clark. You destroyed like half the city last year and a lot of people hate you. I can't have that in our world. Meet me at Gotham..." Clark then tries to talk, but then Bruce hangs up. He flies there, then the screen cuts to Batman. It is very stormy and dark in Gotham City. Batman glides to the building the Batsign is on, which is the signal the Gotham Police Department use to call him especially Commissioner James Gordon, his closest friend that is a cop and his daughter is Barbara Gordon, who is the old Batgirl. He arrives at the building, kicking the Batsign into the workings, then it shines on the skies. He then looks up, seeing Superman with red eyes, getting ready to blast him. They look at each other,