The opening five or ten minutes of Apocalypse are superb. Unfortunately, it drops a planet sized ball after that. It's billed as a sequel to Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (2009), but the connection is limited mostly to news reports heard in the first five or ten minutes.
Batman picks up a young girl (not like that!). Superman takes on the father figure role for her. The big D from Apokolips wants a piece of her, too, so he pulls up his socks and heads to Earth.
It's pretty banal and lacking the characterisation of the Jeph Loeb penned source material. It needs more batman cynicism.
2½ Boom Tubes out of 5
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