Fails to live up to the hype

Rating: 5/10 (24 March 2016)

I had no expectations going into this movie, I expected it to be a mediocre film and it was. The DC based movie franchise really struggles to lay down the ground work before introducing new characters and then maintain some continuity. Even though the Batman story has been told over and over again I felt like it would have served them better to continue Batman's story from where the Dark Knight trilogy left off (something they could have done even with a new actor donning the uniform) rather then rushing through the Batman back story and making everyone watch the Wayne's being murdered AGAIN!!! Alfred even made a comment that Batman had been fighting crime for 20 years and that he (Bruce) was getting old. So they made us watch the Wayne's get killed again then just skipped over the rest like his struggles against all the other villains was insignificant. I bring up this one point because the whole film felt this way, like it was rushed and disjointed. Henry Cavill is a great Superman but it's not even worth my time learning the actors name who played Lex Luthor because his performance was so bad and Ben Affleck as Batman was terrible as I believe most people expected it would be. Ignore the reviews that rave about this film and Ben Afflecks amazing performance because those reviews have obviously be written by the films marketing and PR team he really was as bad in this film as he was in Dare Devil. The fight between Batman and Superman was boring and it took way to long to get to that point with a rushed ending. Could have been so much better.