Amazing action and great iconic moments all pulled together with a solid story and bad storytelling (SPOILERS)

Rating: 8/10 (26 March 2016)

This movie was good. It is not terrible and it is not amazing. I will just start by saying that Ben Affleck as batman was the best thing in the movie. He was brutal, very dark, and almost scary. It is hard to tell in some parts but I'm pretty sure he killed some people. Henry Cavill was great as superman. Probably better than he was in Man of steel. Gal Gadot was amazing. She was the perfect pick for wonder women. Even though she did not show up much in the movie it was awesome when she did. Jeramy Irons as Alfred and pretty much every other supporting cast member was good. Jessie Eisenburg as Lex Luther was my main fear and he was just really weird and didn't fit Lex Luther. The story was overall good except at the beginning it was sloppy and confusing. Pacing was also a little weird and it seemed pretty rushed. Some people say this movie was overlong but it really was not. It was just packed with stuff way too much so it made it hard to follow the story. It should have been split into 2 movies. One movie being actual batman fighting superman. The other being the doomsday part and setting up for the justice league. Some of the storytelling was really terrible and there are a couple bad plot holes and random side-plots that lead to nowhere. There a couple parts where I think its going in a direction and it changes course quickly. One other problem was some things would get really confusing if you were not a DC fan. People are hating on the actual batman v superman fight being too short and the name being false marketing but what do you expect like a 2 hour long fight. I think 8 minutes is a decently long fight and the lead-up to the fight was amazing. This movie had some of the best action I have ever seen in a superhero movie. The actual batman v superman fight was amazing and some batman scenes left your jaw dropping. Also the fight with doomsday and wonder women was personally the best superhero movie fight scene ever made. People and critics are also complaining about the movie being too dark. I think it is good that it is not like the Avengers, it is much darker and more violent. Marvel fan-boys are just complaining that not all superhero movies are fun. Usually the comics were very dark also so I like how Zack Snyder stayed true to the comics. People were also complaining about the overuse of CGI but I think it worked well because the CGI was never bad and how do you expect someone to make doomsday without using CGI. Its just not possible. The soundtrack was also amazing. Each of the main characters(Batman, superman, Lex Luther, Wonder Women) had their own theme which I liked. The film was also very emotional at parts and very sad. People also have problems with too many dream sequences but I think it is a perfect way of showing Bruce Wayne being mentally unstable and venturing into his dark mind. It also tied in with Man of steel perfectly and set up the Justice league perfectly. In conclusion I have no idea why this movie is getting such bad reviews. Don't listen to the critics because this movie was very good. It is definitely a lot to take in and it has its problems but as a whole it is a epic blockbuster that you will want to see on a huge screen and just not pay attention to the story. I am also looking foreword to the rest of the DC cinematic universe.