One of the biggest wastes of potential ever.

Rating: 3/10 (25 March 2016)

I am a huge fan of Superman and especially of Batman. Zack Snyder disappointed before with Man of Steel, which though not bad, was simply OK. However this time it is just bad. The film does in the beginning set up a lot of interesting movements, however during the course of the film all these movement are absolutely slaughtered.
The most interesting plot point we get from the very beginning, which is what should be the central conflict (though really it isn't), between Batman and Superman, in which Bruce Wayne seems overtaken by paranoia and becomes borderline psychotic in his perception of Superman; this is a very interesting setup as it had potential to be an interesting reflection of the fear of terrorism manifesting itself as an irrational hatred for all muslims. However, this interesting setup quickly dwiddles into nothing and becomes more about... umm.. other stuff? It really becomes about nothing which is quite disappointing with such a setup. While Affleck is very good, and a lot of the Batman sequences are well handled, the fact the he seems to be killing people left and right without anyone really caring about it, seems very off when you have him taking a moral stance against Superman. Superman on the other side is also problematic as he manages to be incredibly one dimensional, even though it seems in the that the film is about him convincing people that he is trying to help them, and yet even as a audience member, being showed that he is indeed right, I couldn't find myself caring about him as he somehow came off as unsympathetic, even compared to mass-murdering batman; it may also be do in large part to Henry Cavill taking many steps down from his performance in MoS and managing to be extremely wooden and uncharismatic.
In the end the film is really all of the place, scenes come totally out of nowhere, making you feel like you fell asleep for ten minutes and lost some of the movie. Worst of all it just feels like the setup ijustice league is really what it is about, and even those aspects aren't well done. Also, without spoiling anything, I would add that I found the last 10 minutes or so, offensively bad and time-wasting, as they try to build and emotional conclusion based on a lie that I am certain everyone in the theatre saw straight through.