What a mess

Rating: 2/10 (3 March 2019)

I heard about how about this film but decided to watch anyway. If Man of Steel (2013) had any promise of being a decent start to the Justice League franchise, then this movie just took that and destroyed it!!!!!
To get it out of the way, there were a few good things about the film. I did enjoy the visuals, the fight scene between Batman and Superman was pretty good, and many the actors were chosen well for their roles like Affleck as Batman and Jeremy Irons as Alfred. But they are outweighed by bad points of the film.
First off, Batman being one of the great superheroes is also a great detective! He's able to figure out anything and yet he wasn't able to determine that Superman wasn't the enemy and Lex Luthor was manipulating everyone. Next, Lex Luthor's portrayal by Jesse Eisenberg was embarrassing to the character. This has always been a cool character being diabolical, sophisticated, and charming and yet this guy is like an over the top cartoon villain. Additionally, doomsday was pointless to the film other being bait for fans to see the movie.
My other problems with the film involve its structure. There are so many subplots that are trying to build up to the next films that it does nothing to the narrative going on the film. Then there's the three acts of the film where the first act (the build up) seems to take up so much time before the actual fight and they quickly run through the last two (the last 30 minutes).
All and all, it's an irritating film that ruins the Justice League for me especially having grown up with the cartoon. If you enjoy it then cool with you, but I can never.