Minor Pacing Issues, Still Entertaining

Rating: 7/10 (24 March 2016)

I'll get my one complaint out of the way early, and that is pacing. This movie in a weird way is an origin story, not of a character but the Justice League and in a way the whole DC Universe. I half expected the movie to suffer from this just from what I saw in the trailers and while the film did drag at a few points, I view it as a necessary evil.
A lot of reviews also took shots at Jessie Eisenberg for his chaotic performance as Lex Luthor. I at first had a few doubts about this but he did win me over by the end of the movie.
Once you get past these two gripes I found the movie very entertaining and enjoyed the dark tone of the film. There were also a few surprising jokes that kind of came out of nowhere and got solid laughs from the audience.
Affleck I thought was surprisingly good, even on par with Bale's Batman/Bruce Wayne which I didn't think I would have said prior to seeing this movie.
I'm not going to put this on the same level as Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy, mostly because it's not a pure Batman movie. The reviews saying its better I would guess are written by Warner Bros. publicity people just like the people comparing it to Green Lantern are probably Marvel people. The truth is somewhere in the middle.
I have a hard time believing anyone going into this would have a bad experience as I found it to be entertaining and visually impressive. I gave the movie 7/10 although I think that score will go up once the full franchise come out. Fingers crossed.