mind over matter

Rating: Null/10 (31 March 2016)

Let us get the good things out of the way first: This film looks amazing and the director really knows his trade in terms of camera angles and pacing and the acting is very solid.
The real problem is that these super heroes and villains are all emotion and no brains. I don't know what it is with writers these days but apparently it's simply enough to draw characters as emotionally and morally conflicted to get your script approved. There simply isn't anything resembling a valid motivation behind the protagonists' actions here.
Why would Lex Luthor set free Doomsday? If his plan of killing Superman succeeds then he'd be stuck with a destructive creature which would wreck human civilization. Sure, he somehow equates Superman with God and he wants to kill God. He comes up with a convoluted plan to trick Batman into doing so and that sucker falls for it. At NO point does this Batman question the fact that somehow, somebody feeds him weird letters which are supposed to make him see Superman as a threat. That is until Superman says the name of his mother who by the biggest of coincidences has the same name as Mr. Wayne's dead mother. Aren't we lucky that Batman's mother wasn't named Helen?
Superman on the other hand ambles about with no idea what is happening around him. He stumbles into some sort of Luthor plot which makes him loose faith in humanity but aren't we lucky because he still has his main squeeze (Lois Lane) who uncovers a conspiracy which could be revealed by 10 minutes of CSI. Then there is Wonder Woman who does.....what exactly?
It is hard to remember any super hero movie which is so full of plot holes and features characters which lack any coherent motivation for their actions.
Maybe it's because this abomination is nothing but a big trailer for things to come. We have Wonder Woman, Aquaman, The Flash and a hinted Justice League movie. I'm so sorry but DC and WB missed a good opportunity to come up with a plausible story which could do justice to Superman and Batman in their own right. This film is so held back by its many flaws. They meant well but ultimately they fail.