7) Jesse Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor Won’t Please Everyone
From the glimpses we got of his hyperactive antics in the trailers, it was clear that Jesse Eisenberg’s take on Lex Luthor was going to be a radical reinvention of the character – not least the fact that he has a head full of luscious locks. As such, it is safe to assume that he won’t please everyone.
Our very own review stated that “Eisenberg plays [Luthor] as a scattered, twitching weirdo, a corporate-playboy Joker with none of the depth and all of the tics. It’s a profoundly irritating feat of overacting.” Meanwhile, Entertainment Weekly believed the film was “seriously crippled by Eisenberg’s over-the-top performance.”
On the other side of things, Cnet thought that “Jesse Eiseinberg’s jittery Lex Luthor is fun to watch, his entitled Silicon Valley nerd a Zucker punch of reinvention.”
It’s safe to say, then, that how much you enjoy Eisenberg’s Luthor depends on personal taste.
Published: Mar 24, 2016 02:19 pm