I've wasted over 5 hours of my time on this film in last 2 days!

Rating: 5/10 (27 March 2018)

I missed this film in theatres in 2016, but last night I watched the Blu Ray (theatrical cut). There was so much about it that I didn't understand I scoured the IMDb to read the user reviews, which suggested that the extended cut cleared up many of the problems with the theatrical version. I watched the 4K disc extended version this afternoon. Not a good idea.... Although it did help clear up some of the things I didn't understand, it just shows what Warner is doing to the DCEU. They should have stopped making Superman movies after they reacquired the property from Ilya Salkind. Superman Returns (2006) was not great, but a decent movie and I would like to have seen Singer's planned sequel, but things really went south for me when Man of Steel came out. When the Salkinds wanted to darken the product a bit and bring in some of the other characters from the DCEU, Warner & company blocked them and said fans don't want to see Metropolis turned into Gotham City and Superman fans don't want to see a darker (in tone) Superman, but that is the exact thing they have done. Henry Cavill is a skilled actor who looks good in the suit, and Ben Affleck was a much better Batman than I expected, but the rest of the film is a disjointed mess. The visuals in some cases are worse than in the 1978 movie. CGI is a great tool but it is so overused, not just in this film but in nearly all of today's films I wish they would just go back to wires against a blue screen. During the fight with Doomsday the entire sequence looked like a cartoon (it was). I know there are many who really liked this film but I am not one of them. I finally found a Superman film to knock "IV-Quest for Peace" of the Superman cellar. Tonight I'm going to see how low they can go 'cause Justice League showed up from Amazon today.