Worth it in the end

Rating: 7/10 (28 March 2016)

*Contains Spoilers*
I have been looking forward to this film for many months now, but went into the cinema with low expectations given the mixed reactions and reviews.
The first 90 minutes wasn't great, and to be honest I wish I had a book to keep me company. Fortunately however, the last hour or so more than made up for this.
One of my main concerns going into the film was Ben Affleck. I like Affleck but couldn't see him as Batman. However I thought he played the part really well, especially given he didn't have the quality of scripts that Christian Bale had in the Christopher Nolan trilogy. I quite liked Lex Luthor and the rest of the cast done a good job, but to be honest I didn't expect nor did I watch the film for Oscar winning performances.
Little happened in the first 90 minutes that couldn't have been summarised in half an hour of film. It wasn't the premise of the set up but it just dragged on for what felt like the entire afternoon.
The world wasn't sure it wanted an all powerful hero like Superman. Batman irrationally blames Superman for the events of Man of Steel, managing to overlook that Zod would have otherwise destroy mankind without his intervention. There were a few other small side stories, but nothing that could justify the length of time the film took is setting the scene for the upcoming confrontation between Batman and Superman and the introduction of Wonder Woman.
I can only summarise the Batman v Superman fight as stupid. I don't have issue with how Batman can actually fight Superman or the fight scene itself, and this was illustrated quite well in the film, but the whole premise of the fight.
Batman and Superman knew each other were Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent respectively (maybe I missed how, but they greeted each other by these names), so why on Earth wouldn't two seemingly intelligent people have a rational conversation to resolve their differences, which aren't really all that different. But no, they decide the best way to tackle this is to try and kill each other on their first or second encounter, leaving a trail of destruction in the process.
With Batman and Superman finally realising that they have bigger problems than disagreeing with each others methods of doing the pretty much the same thing, the film started to get going.
The fight with Doomsday was amazing. The portrayal of both Batman and Superman was well executed and I enjoyed the introduction of Wonder Woman. While slightly clichÃ©, I also enjoyed the ending of the film.
There isn't really need for me to go into detail, but if you can put up with the slow and at times unnecessary pacing of the film, you will be deeply rewarded with what most of us went to the cinema to see.