Sets out to do too much & does not do most of it effectively

Rating: 5/10 (24 March 2016)

BvS is just a classic example of a film trying to do to much; way to much & in the end not telling the story it set out to tell in the first place. A shame really if they had a different take on Lex & Doomsday plus removed all the unneeded new 52 stuff that sets up the Justice League, I think they could have had a very good Batman/Superman story. The fight between Batman & Superman is great; but there is a monstrosity of poorly edited explanation that we as the viewer have to sit through to get to it.
Affleck's Batman is the high point of the film & in general the Batman stuff works very well, particularly with Irons' Alfred. Cavill's Superman tends to be very over shadowed in this film as when the film chooses to focus on him he just tends to stare with a blank expression on his face. Jesse Eisenberg's Lex is in a word just plain bad; I have not a clue why they thought a guy that acts like a delusional crack addict would make a compelling villain.
Gadot's Wonder Woman seemed for the most part all right, kind of hard to tell because her roll is rather limited in the film. At least Wonder Woman was used far more effectively than the other future members of the Justice League that IMHO should have been left on the cutting room floor. If your a fan you should still see BvS to get a look at all the DC goodness coming down the pipe & as stated before the BvS fight is very good. I just hope in future films they don't try & cram in so much unneeded characters & elements into their stories.