For Me, This Film Failed On Many Aspects.

Rating: 3/10 (7 July 2016)

The cast is terrible. The plot of the film goes nowhere. The emphasis on C.G.I. is just to make up for the weak plot. Let me say beforehand that I'm not a Ben Affleck fan, nor a Henry Cavill admirer. At least I can tolerate Cavill's performance.
I just don't consider these two people as actors. Sir Richard Burton, Sir Anthony Hopkins, David Suchet, Sir Laurence Olivier, Marlon Brando, Vincent Price, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Gene Hackman, Gary Oldman, Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Ben Kingsley, Peter Sellars, Charlton Heston, Burt Lancaster, Robert Duvall and Kirk Douglas.
These above are legends. I don't want to go into more detail. Then I'd be adding Lance Henriksen, Michael Biehn, Armand Asante, Rutger Hauer all of who are the stuff of cult movies.
This new crop of actors, you can say new generation of actors, can't compare with the predecessors.
Back to the film. The film concerns Lex Luther's obsession to make Superman his slave. This is done in two ways: (1)by making Batman his enemy, (2)obtaining a sample of DNA from a Kryptonian survivor and thereby cloning a meta-human.
Superman doesn't want Batman interfering in his actions so automatically the tensions run high between them. We see the first appearance of Israeli actress Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman. Also veteran actor Jeremy Irons takes over from Sir Michael Caine as Batman's Butler and right-hand man Alfred Pennyworth.
When watching a film of this caliber, I am not bothered with special effects. Since I grew up in the Lucas, Spielberg, Cameron, Scott, McTiernan, Verhoeven era. I am not a newbie to special effects, I grew up on them. The plot is the core of the film. If the plot is superb, even bad actors will shine. Also you need a superb musical background score which will get the adrenaline going. You need gifted guys like Alan Silvestri, James Horner, Jerry Goldsmith, Danny Elfman, Christopher Young, Mark Isham, Vangelis and a great favorite of mine: Brad Fiedel.
The golden age of Hollywood has gone, the automaton of generic rehashed films is now.