Exaggerated Criticism

Rating: 10/10 (29 March 2016)

After years of following this site, I feel compelled now to write here because I cannot digest why on Earth this movie is receiving such a massive slaughtering. Before someone points me as a DC lover or something like that, I am a fan of DC, Marvel and Fox movies equally, having seen all of them, liking some, disliking others. No more, no less. Having said that, beware of some SPOILERS from here on: So I find out that this movie, which could be a great asset to any comic book or comic book movies fan, is being destroyed buy movie critics.
Was it perfect? Of course not! Although I liked how Luthor led everything from the shadows, I didn't like his portrait in the movie. It's more how he dissolved into a Joker/Riddler hybrid than Eisenberg's fault (I think he did well with the material given) and I agree with people saying that there were problems with editing and pace through the first half of the movie (which I hope the director's cut fixes it). I don't forget about that ending which I'll wait for its payout in subsequent movies before judge if it is a big mistake coming so soon into the universe.
However, I don't think those things spoil the overall movie. We have a movie where three of the most iconic characters in the world are together for the first time, and where the main two are well-balanced in a story that makes perfect sense of how they want to fight (well we already know that is Batman the one who wants the fight so bad). A movie where they take actual plots from comics without turning them in a bad derivative (and we've seen a lot of that).
It also introduces a great Batman, where Ben Affleck has proved himself very capable of it (three years ago I was one of the many upset with his casting and now I'm happy with it). "But he kills!" Yeah, but we're willing to forgive that to Keaton, so why not to this Batman that is a great combination of comics and Arkham video games?.
We also have Wonder Woman, who, even though not appearing a lot in the movie, it was very good how mysterious they were with the character until the big reveal. if it is a signal of what is to come from the character, now I really want that Wonder Woman movie. And what about Superman? Yeah, people still say that he is not in the mood he should be, but we are seeing a newbie Superman, whose actions have big consequences and people are not completely willing to give him all their trust. It's perfectly understandable for him to have that identity crisis, but when the end comes, we see that he finally come into terms with that and that he has to give his everything to the world, because it IS his world.
And what about the dark tone? Why is that an issue? We have the great Dark Knight trilogy with its dark themes and everybody loved them (even though in the second film the bad guy won and Batman was hated and hunted). And Burton's movies? They were even darker! And isn't it ironic that one of the most successful Marvel movies is Captain America 2? It has the darkest tone from all the Marvel movies!And it is praised everywhere! (and it is my favorite marvel movie). Then this movie comes and suddenly having a dark tone is one of the most negative things in the world. Oh my...
I don't want to bash people at all, but I think that people simply wanted this movie to bomb no matter what. They were even bashing the movie years before its release. They didn't watch, just went to nitpick everything to death and it didn't matter if it had anything good. And I don't understand it, why hating something that can be very good to all fans, no matter if DC, Marvel or whatever. Was it a perfect movie? It's clear that it isn't, but if you just watch it for what it is you know you have a good and entertaining movie there. But thank you critics and/or haters (and with haters I refer to the people who nitpick everything in a illogical way), you helped me to enjoy this movie a lot and, in the end, that was the most important thing ;)