A better title would have been 'How Lex Lost His Hair'

Rating: 2/10 (3 April 2016)

Spoiler alert: I did not see Man of Steel, on the other hand, I don't remember getting any indication that this was the spiritual successor to that.
Would seeing the prequel have saved the movie? That would be miraculous. Because mostly the plot just does not make sense. It's like they tried to make a 10 hour movie and cut it down to 2.5 hours, while making it still feel like you were sitting there for 4 hours.
You sit there for the entire time going 'where is this going?' with no real aha moment even though you feel like in the end some grand master plan all came together. But from the first 5 minutes of the film, when the bats lift Wayne up, I feel like the movie jumped the shark and it still went downhill from there.
And really, whats with all the prophetic dreams that don't play out in this film and turn out to be teasing a sequel?? I mean most people that like Superman and/or Batman don't read the comics and have no clue what the film could be alluding to and so they're just like, what was that?? (and the subplots you thought you were going to see rise from that just make it feel like a longer movie with more boredom and confusion)
Sorry this review seems so disjointed but I'm trying to make some sparse points that I feel need emphasis without giving away any of the movie.
Two final things I left the movie with - It seems to scapegoat the Russians as the bad guys a bit too much. Just 2 instances but as their prime minister has just declared a resumption of the cold war, Russian audiences would easily point to this as subtle US propaganda (or worse, a reflection that we really do see them as the enemy).
And secondly, why train and prep so hard when you can just make your new armor with a coating of kryptonite? That's what I would have done. That's what I thought he did (because honestly, did he really think thicker metal was going to protect him from Superman?)
But really, this review reads like the movie itself. Disjointed with minor good parts but mostly it just seems to go on and on with no point. And it doesn't even elaborate on some key points that would have made the whole thing a lot more coherent!