This is not a perfect movie!

Rating: 8/10 (19 April 2016)

This is not a perfect movie, but it sure is fun!I would give this a 7.5 if I could use decimals, but one issue at a time. The biggest flaw this movie suffers from is lack of planning on the studio's part: The superhero movement is coming to a close, we have a few years but it is inevitable. In 2008 Marvel set up an entire world with Iron Man, DC had platform which was as good (if not better) to springboard off of with TDK trilogy but sadly Bale had chose not to go on. So now with time against them DC has to play catch-up. Now too the movie itself: Jessie Eisenberg notwithstanding (I am withholding judgment for now), this movie is BRILLIANTLY cast. Ben and Henry were perfect for the roles (even if Superman still leaves something to be desired).
For the first 2/3rds of the movie the plot is very Political Thriller style with Scoot McNairy and Holly Hunter playing brilliant parts, albeit short lived. Very much in a Winter Soldier fashion this movie was exciting, mysterious, with a very Snydery tone (which I personally like, I like the blue lighting). Up until the Courthouse explosion. From that scene things picked up and Snyder crammed a lot into the rest of the movie: It all works! However it is not the most elegant way of presenting it and my argument is that Snyder needed to fit in a lot to set up the rest of the movies. There is a lot to be explained in this movie, and there are things people don't like, as it was with Man of Steel, HOWEVER many of the question marks left behind by MOS are picked up in this movie, so I wait excitedly for the next step in the story to have these things more perfectly tied up.
This movie is LONG but honestly it should have been longer, in order to fit in all the things Snyder wanted or was told to put in... Look for a VERY long directors cut to really get the best version of this movie. In short this is not perfect but if you like the characters, enjoy movies it is pretty easy to gloss over some things and still really enjoy this movie.