The Ultimate Edition is a truly great movie stained by a truncated theatrical edition.

Rating: 9/10 (23 July 2016)

Upon hearing of the 3 hour cut and 30 minutes cut mere weeks before release, I immediately grew suspicious. Upon viewing, while I enjoyed it to rate it a 6/10, the film noticeably lacked many parts in ways that compromised the end product. Upon the UC's release, I made my judgment on BvS. I loved it. While unorthodox in behavior, Lex is a truly scheming villain, and dangerous when he begins resorting to more twisted means. The political and personal dramas around Superman's existence, the toll it has on him, his take on Batman, Batman's vendetta and distrust of meta-humans, Lois Lane uncovering Luthor's scheme, and the action scenes. If I had to pick one thing that stands above the others, it would be the music. Not to discredit the rest of the movie, but just saying, bravo Hans Zimmer and Junkie XL. And to Hans, DC fans will dearly miss you. The only true gripes I have are nothing to do with the key story itself, just minor scenes that were more fan service if anything. The Knightmare sequence felt like it would have been better suited in the Justice League by what DC is building towards, and the JL intro videos may have been better served as an online release only in a viral marketing stunt. Wonder Woman seeing her old photo sent by Batman reawakening her memories would have sufficed. In my personal opinion, I feel this movie will be better appreciated as the DC universe expands, as we will see it as the beginning for many characters, such as Lex, Batman and more. And I hope WB learns their lesson from this. To keep the mystery in the marketing, which they seem to have with Suicide Squad and Wonder Woman. And to not butcher the movie out of a greedy possibility of more showings per day, especially by reports saying this version was the one they themselves gave a standing ovation to. No bad movie is too short, and no good movie is too long. And 3 hours of this was what we needed, not the 2.5 hours we got in theaters. I shall be throwing away my DVD disk from the Blu-ray set, as only the other two disks contain the extras and the Ultimate Cut. It nearly pained me to have a movie I genuinely loved being so harshly criticized, but I will defend this movie, the Ultimate Cut, as a truly great comic book movie. Bring on Justice League!