Enjoyable movie

Rating: 7/10 (13 April 2016)

First of all, I want to say I know this movie wasn't amazing, but I wanted so badly to give it 10/10 anyway to make up for all the unnecessarily harsh ratings I've seen on various sites. I don't know if I saw the same movie as some of these other people, because although it wasn't amazing, it was certainly not awful either. There were for sure some plot holes, and lazy introductions of various characters, but it also has some redeeming qualities too.
I for one never really bought lex luthor's motives and I wasn't sure what they were trying to sell either. I also wish that the other 'meta humans' weren't introduced via email lol but honesty it was still exciting to see these characters on screen.
The action scenes were exciting, and the movie was just visually very pretty. The casting worked for me. I understand why people were unhappy with lex Luthor, because some of his lines just took me out of the movie and made me cringe. But I went into the movie having no prior knowledge of the character or expectations about how he's "supposed" to be portrayed so it wasn't horrible for me. I loved Henry cavill, he is pretty effortlessly superman. Batman worked well too. I was invested in his character even though I was on team superman. I liked the fight scenes, I liked the emotions near the end, and I enjoyed all the political buildup the first half of the movie.
I hear people complaining about how it's "joyless" or too dark, but I don't understand why it has to have a lot of humor to balance out the dark. I mean obviously marvel has been more lighthearted so far, but I don't think all other comic book movies have to follow the same formula. In this case, I thought different is good.
The only part of the move that really made it lose some points for me, was the dialogue and some of the lines. I feel like hey cared less about superman, and gave him some cheesy and lazy ass lines. Hahaha I think Henry cavill did the best he could with those lines, but better writing definitely would have made him shine more. Even so, I liked batman v superman, and I believe it's being unfairly rated. It wasn't horrible and it wasn't outstanding. It was fun, and I think people should go into it with an open mind, instead of thinking about how it's going to be bad, and consequently only seeing the down side of the movie.