It's nice to see Snyder has been keeping busy playing video games, maybe some D&D, watching Firefly, and writing some Star Wars fanfic in-between. This is a preposterous film with abysmal dialogue, a cast who are trying their very best, and a storyline which lurches failingly between plot points in an attempt to grasp at the kind of grandiose world building so clearly in mind, instead landing somewhere between Jupiter Ascending and Valerion: City of a Thousand Planets in terms of utterly decimating what could have been something glorious. There is some lovely creature design, magnificent set pieces, and some fun action sequences, if only he had turned off the food setting occasionally so you could actually enjoy them. In fairness if I were an eleven-year-old watching my first grown-up movie I would probably love this, and I found myself laughing gleefully at times, though perhaps not the intention, nevertheless the entertainment value here is in speculating on what the intention was rather than the execution. Set your expectations below floor level and there is still joy to be found in the experience, but this is not a film I could actually recommend. 3.42/10