I envy everyone who liked this movie so much!

Rating: 3/10 (25 March 2016)

Just to be clear I did not go into this movie with high expectations and that's the reason I'm disappointed. I went to a prescreening, fully prepared to be disappointed after seeing the trailers, but still in a good mood and hoping for the best. And to be clear, this movie isn't completely awful. But I went home disappointed and canceled my tickets for a second screening. I'm glad for everyone who liked this and wish they would stop dishing hate on people who didn't. The following is my opinion, you don't have to agree with me, but I'm not bought off or just hating on principle. This is how I feel about BvS: If we want to save Justice League, Snyder has to go.
This movie is a jumbled mess. It tries to do too much. There's a Man of Steel sequel in there, they're introducing a new batman, setting up the Justice League and then they've got to cram some villain motivations in there too. Guess what? It doesn't work. If you try to cram three and a half movies into one, you can't properly flesh out what's going on. It's possible to follow the plot, but every time you start to get emotionally invested in a scene, it skips to somewhere else and doesn't pay off. Also, because we don't get to spend enough time with the characters, the motivations are inadequate. There is no real reason why the Batman vs Superman fight needs to happen except miscommunication which two hyperintelligent men like Batman and Superman would not have, and the reason it stops is paper thin as well. The major players only have a handful of scenes together. It's not enough. It is very easy to tell that the movie was cut down and it is glaringly obvious sometimes that pieces are missing. Characters refer to something as if they had talked about it before, even though they haven't, which tells you that scenes were cut. But even so, with all that stuff going on, the movie manages to drag. There's so much that we don't need to see, and it's disappointing that they chose to give us that instead of more time with our heroes. Another thing that angered me: if you're gonna put one stray joke in your movie, why spoil it by explaining the punchline? How stupid do you think your audience is? I found that offensive.
It's not all bad of course. The cast is solid throughout. Batfleck is fine, so are Cavill, Gadot, Adams and Irons. But the dialogue they are given is so inauthentic it really bothered me. It's just exposition or pompous pep talks and not the way real people behave. I didn't like Eisenberg, but if the rest of the movie had been better, I would have been able to live with him. Visuals are great, as you would expect. Some of the action is good too, but not all of it. Those good points are where my three stars come from.
All in all: This movie is setting up so much stuff that it fails at one crucial thing... being a standalone film. It's disjointed and choppy and we don't get to spend enough time with the characters to actually care about them or understand their motivations properly. To everyone out there who liked it: I'm happy for you. I envy you. You have no idea how lucky you are. But I just couldn't.