Not worth your time

Rating: 5/10 (10 April 2016)

When it was apparent the movie was going to about far more than just setting up the battle between Batman and Superman, DC fans knew they would see other DC heroes or at least references, setups for them.
What they got was just that, a setup for upcoming DC movies and the eventual Justice League film. Of the battle between Batman and Superman? It was poorly handled to say the least, not to mention that it lasted a mere 5 minutes compared to the movie's 150 minute runtime. The fight, if could even call it that, was more like a brawl, with Batman employing some amount of strategy to compensate for his clear lack of strength against superman, by using his weakness, Kryptonite.
The way Kryptonite was central to the story however, is one of the most confusing and ridiculous things I have seen in a movie. To start with, it is found near the beginning of the movie inside a completely normal looking rock from the seabed. This rock is picked up by random people as if it is something they absolutely know would the Kryptonite inside. Why them, and why would they need kryptonite? Who knows? How would they know that the kryptonite was inside this rock and that they should break it open? BvS logic.
Moving forward a little bit, the kryptonite piece, is taken by Lex Luthor, the main antagonist for the movie, who then has it stolen from him again, by Batman, in a sequence of events where Batman acts seemingly out of character from what we've come to expect: Killing and shooting people left, right and centre, at times even driving over them! He appears as if in a rage, induced by one of the movie's initial scenes, where we see him witness the destruction of Metropolis first hand, losing much of his company's property and trusted employees and friends.
You'd think that would make for interesting insight into his character, right? Guess again, because Batman is now a single-minded Superman hater that is looking to chase after a man who seemingly cares little for the world in his eyes, while he himself goes around branding criminals he captures with the 'Bat Brand of Justice', literally branding them with a bat-shaped iron, which leads other prisoners to attack and kill these people. What a hypocrite! While we're going through this mish-mash of scenes where the Batman seems to be doing the wrong things when there are scenes showing Superman actually saving people, we also see Batman in what appear to be dream-visions. These show a world devastated and supposedly controlled by Superman, one where Batman doesn't only fight but now shoots guns too! It also has weird Angels and an appearance by 'The Flash' (?) where he warns Batman not to trust 'them', but never takes the time to actually explain to the batman exactly who he shouldn't trust.
And suddenly we're back to the kryptonite! Because now batman believes he must use it as a weapon against Superman, a valid thought, by making it into a spear! Why not simply break it down and make it into bullets or a laser, since he is literally shown using a laser to cut the piece of kryptonite? I for one, have only one answer, to make the movie plot keep moving.
There's many more such instances of absolutely ridiculous stuff happening on screen, things that have you thinking, why? And while the overall special effects and direction seem okay, the whole movie has a total grim-dark feel to it, with an utter lack of feeling and passion for what superheroes are, and what we as people see in them, what we aspire to be.
It is an unfortunate reality then, that Batman v Superman is an unenjoyable movie, at least for the layperson, for a DC fan, while they may get to see some of their favorite characters, they might see themselves even more disappointed with how their heroes go out of character and a plot that just seems contrived by bridging together multiple different plot lines from the DC universe that has been built up over so many years.
My final verdict? A movie with sub-par action, inane plot and character development, if that, and a broken story that is best checked out on home video, if you really wish to see why it's so bad yourself.
Honestly though? It's not worth your time.