Good overall. Affleck was excellent as Batman.

Rating: 8/10 (27 March 2016)

I enjoyed this movie for the most part, and don't agree with the overly harsh critics. This Batman was more like the Batman of The Dark Knight Returns comic-book tetralogy, who had gotten darker, more gritty, and more brutal with age. Gal Gadot pulled off an awesome Wonder Woman, whose character showed that she was in the big leagues in terms of her power and abilities, despite the actress herself not being Amazonian in size and stature. Henry Cavill continues to do a good job as Superman, and stays true to what comic-book fans would expect. This movie had superb action and fight scenes, and amazing audio. Jesse Eisenberg did a decent Luthor, although his personality diverges from the traditional one you may be used to. He's a bit more zany and more high-strung, and I think that annoyed people who expected the traditional Lex Luthor, but I was okay with the creative license. The only two points on which I tend to agree with critics is that too much was revealed in the trailers(!), and the movie perhaps tried to cram too much in. This movie could have actually been three movies, although I understand that it is intended as a setup for the Justice League franchise. I felt that the movie could have developed the emotional struggles of the characters better if the producers didn't try to fit so much in, and some parts of the story had to be glossed over because of time constraints. However I was not disappointed with this movie on the whole, as some critics say they were. Definitely worth seeing if you love the DC universe. Maybe not a "home run" like *Deadpool*, but at least a solid "base hit" or a "double," and it opens up a huge amount of potential for follow-up movies.