17th May 2016, 9:31 PM
The biggest issue with it is that the movie wants us to actually ROOT for those characters. It's fine if you want to deconstruct super heroes and expose their hypocrisy (notably by way of having both heroes accuse the other of the things they are blatantly doing themselves), but don't turn around and then try to convince us "but no wait really these guys are RIGHT in what they're doing, they're totally right and I personally tend to Ayn Rand's dollar shaped grave every other weekend". Don't show them taking almost as many lives as they save and then try to claim that EVERY action that saves lives must necessarily take others, negating the entire concept of "helping people". (No seriously, check out a recent interview where he tries to play off the lost lives as exactly the same as arborists yelling at someone saving a cat from a tree because they damaged some branches, which is a scenario this person appears to think actually happens in the real world.)
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)