I walked out of Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice feeling the same thing many other folks did. It wasn’t a very good movie, but Batman was the strongest part of it. His story and particularly Affleck’s performance were the biggest highlight of the movie. Numerous rewatches on home video reinforced this for me.

So I decided to try something: instead of making it equal parts a Superman movie and Batman movie rolled into one, I’d simply make it a Batman movie with Superman as a side character or even as a secondary antagonist of sorts. It’s cut with the simple philosophy that it’s Batman’s story. Only things necessary to the movie making sense from that philosophy were included.

I cut the 3-hour Ultimate Edition down to under 2 hours if you don’t watch the credits. Instead of the fight starting at 2 hours 3 minutes, it starts at 1 hour 8 minutes.

Here are a few notes about it and choice cuts:

-I assumed that you saw Man Of Steel before this

-I removed the section of the opening credits where Bruce Wayne’s parents are killed. In this regard, I assumed you have a basic understanding of Batman’s origin story

-I removed every part of Superman’s/Clark’s story that I could that still made it make sense

-I removed every mention of the incident in the desert. Instead, I tried to make it appear and sound like the committee was meeting about and discussing Superman’s fault for the attack in Metropolis

-I tried to shorten the nightmare scene. I generally do not like dream sequences, and I originally tried to removed it entirely, but it severely messed with the pacing

-I removed as much Lex Luther as possible. Sorry, not much I could do about that

-I removed Superman’s funeral, and kept only Clark’s

-I do not dislike Superman or even Zack Snyder’s take on Superman. I mainly felt that this movie was over crowded, too convoluted in plot, and too long. This edit was simply an attempt to simplify the story and amplify the film’s strongest aspects

-I am not a professional editor. I apologize for the low quality of the export and for any technical issues you find with the file

I cannot stress this enough. This is not a replacement for your original copy. I purchased a copy and if you download this, I would hope that you did too.

Enjoy!

Download here: https://mega.nz/#!qAVHnTSJ!wHEfAF9qwTm1CxgYSiUHViLEgNn3GNLJly6GXdCoaQQ