Honest and fresh review

Rating: 6/10 (24 March 2016)

This is a fresh review because I have just come after seeing the movie.RIGHT NOW. So the imprint of the movie is fresh in my mind and I am honestly going to say that this movie is a beautiful mess. I haven't seen any other review. I haven't seen any spoilers and I walked into the theater knowing only what the trailers had shown.
First, I am going to talk about the pros that are in this movie. The movie is shot beautifully. Every scene is breathtaking. The CGI is as expected of Zack Snyder. The actions scenes are awesome. If the Man of Steel action scenes were 8/10 then the action scenes in this movie is 10/10. Exhilarating, adrenaline pumping action scenes. All the haters of Batfleck can zip their mouths shut because Ben Affleck gave a towering performance as Bruce Wayne as well as Batman. I had a little problem with the Batman part but I'll come to that later. Ben Affleck as Bruce Wayne shows his humane side because of the incident at Metropolis. He's Emotionally vulnerable because the loss of Metropolis is still fresh in his mind. Apparently the Bruce Wayne he is portraying has been through a lot so it is understandable.Jeremy Irons as the new Alfred is a breath of fresh air. He is more grounded and handy just like you see in the trailers. I remember one scene from the comics where Alfred takes a pill which enhances his strength and beats up Superman for hurting Bruce Wayne and I can totally see Jeremy Irons' Alfred doing that to Henry Cavill's Superman. Henry Cavill as Superman is the best we have got since Christopher Reeves. Does he surpass his performance? According to me, yes. As we haven't seen any recent renditions of Wonder Woman I think Gal Gadot is promising. As a DC universe is being created I think she will fit in very good. Human characters like Lois, Perry and Martha Kent have enough screen time and are good. There are cameos by the members who will be forming the JLA. Jonathan Kent also pays a visit.
Now for the cons. Considering the run-time the film was a tad bit lengthy because of the script. Apparently Hollywood is still suffering from the Spider-man syndrome. That is, they are so busy building up for the sequels that they do not concentrate on the current premise. There are too many things going on in this movie. At first it looks like they are setting up for the Batman vs Superman throw down but then you see the Doomsday part coming up which scared me right when I saw it. It proved to be right. The second half is just a big CGI mess. The Batman and Superman fight is awesome and according to me they should have built the story arc like that so that it would have ended with the fight BUT they had to bring the Dawn of bloody Justice.
Doomsday looks like Shrek on the juice that made Bane grow big in Batman and Robin. They took too many references. I think it is an amalgamation of The Dark Knight Returns and Death of Superman and it turned out to be not according to the expectations.
Now the thing about Batman. Dude was killing right and left! I mean you could say they were rubber bullets but he drove his car through the car which apparently had the bad guys in it. BATMAN DOESN'T KILL. I hope they have a explanation for that. Now you see I haven't put Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor in the pros because it wasn't. He was towering and menacing but those were very brief moments. Otherwise he just comes out as a mockery of many goofy characters. He just didn't come out of his comfort zone to do something different. All in all the movie was OK. Probably the wait and expectation had built too much hype.