The ultimate cut is the ONLY watchable version !

Rating: 7/10 (29 June 2016)

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Ultimate Edition Review: The Ultimate edition of this year's controversial superhero Flick is now out. This film, released back in march divided a line between fan boys and critics. The critics HATED it, its rated 27% on RT which is way too low for such a mega budget flick. The fan boys rabidly defended the movie including giving death threats to critics who said they didn't like it.
Now a 30 min extended version is out and how does this affect the movie? One of my BIGGEST issue with the movie was, it felt it had been edited by amateurs on a Mac. The pacing was off, the scenes made no sense and in all it was quite a mess.
That whole issue is completely solved in this edit. The extra minutes actually make the film shorter in some ways. There are no huge logic leaps and plots are revealed intricately.
The tone of this edit is very much similar to this director's Watchmen. This also shows a much better directed film than was released in theaters. I don't know whose decision it was to cut out these 30 minutes, but that decision has not only backfired but will haunt them forever.
This 3-hour movie would not have gotten 27% on RT, I dare say it would have been a acceptable 75-78% Easily.
But make no mistake, the huge glaring issues with the movie, such as the Martha scene and Lex's bad acting are still all there, it's just that they are not so glaring anymore. They are much more forgivable due to the movie being quite well made.
In the theatrical cut, the plot flowed so badly, it was so tedious that by the time the ending came, people were just fed up and not in a forgiving or understanding mood.
Every single scene where footage has been added is benefited GREATLY. Some more sub plot is introduced and they balance the movie out.
But even then, this movie has some problems. Other than one scene, this movie doesn't have ANY good action set piece for the first 2 and half hours. It's all drama and setup for the ending. Which would have been fine, it's the same formula from Man of Steel, but this film is much longer and it needs some REALLY good action scenes in between which it doesn't have.
But this 3 hour cut is 100% worth a watch. If this was released theatrically, I would have rated this movie much higher despite the Martha scene and the Lois dong moronic things scene.
Rating: 7.5/10 Fans HAVE to see it, anyone else who hasn't seen the movie yet, this is the version to see.
P.S : Some small easter eggs were very nice additions, like the ending funeral scene has Pete Ross (also seen in Man of Steel) in a brief cameo, its not important, but its good film making.