A sloppy and depressing interpretation of the heroes

Rating: 4/10 (4 April 2016)

There may be a few Spoilers in this though honestly as I went a little stream of consciousness I just wanted to add this warning to be safe.
Finally saw BvS over the weekend.
While not as terrible as Fant4stic, BvS was not a good movie. They've taken the light of the DC universe, Superman, and made him into a mopey teenager with daddy issues. He was Anakin from Episode 2. Snyder has taken the light and joy out of the sun god from Smallville and replaced it with dim and brooding.
Batman, while I have nothing against Afleck portraying him, I do take issue with the direction this incarnation has taken. The worlds greatest detective didn't know who Superman's mom was? He is so self absorbed that he's developed tunnel vision and ignores the most obvious of threats and manipulations because they feed into his need to get revenge on the wrong person? He is a bull in a china shop manhandling his way through the night incapable of deductive reasoning and instead reliant on his fists to solve his problems, and not even with any style or subtlety, but instead with overwhelming force. I hope in the solo movie they give it to Afleck to direct himself. Then at least the character introspection will be a bit more honest and believable and less heavy handed. Seriously, did they need to focus on and then repeat multiple times the batman origin story?
Why not instead focus on the next catalyzing phase in which Batman becomes okay with going full Bernthal Punisher on the criminal element. Murder, physical torture, massive destruction without the least bit of concern, how about a little more focus on the events leading up to that Batman instead of retreading the second most repeated origin story in comic books. Alfred, who was one of the brighter spots of the movie, could have even said something to give better light and then maybe they could have cut out a couple of those repeated "Martha" flashbacks or slow walks through over grown fields or decaying mansions.
Psychotic Luther is still too weird to be a real thing. Eisenberg could have portrayed Luther as a cold sociopath with grand ambitions and plans to lay waste to the two heroes and instead there was nothing but a directionless haphazard slopping together of several villain archetypes without concern for motivation or story. It is a discredit to both Eisenbergs abilities and to Luther's legacy that he is instead an insane madman. Nothing about the character feels real or consistent. It's as though Snyder had never read or seen anything about Lex and just wanted it to be the Joker with money.
The brightest spot for me was Wonder Woman, though she is never referred to as such, but for some reason Luther has a file on her with her most recognizable emblem. I mean really it all feels so lazy and so sloppy. The smile she gives while fighting Doomsday was one of maybe four smiles I can remember throughout the entire film, including the bathtub scene and that one I can only assume they are smiling. Wonder Woman's though felt real. Like she was actually enjoying the challenge that Doomsday presented. To me, it was the only honest portrayal of a character in the film everyone else felt wrong. Batman ignored facts and couldn't begin to deduce Superman was mopey and depressed, and Luther was psychotic instead of a sociopath.
Lois I can't say much about because she was only important as to how she related to Superman. At least in MoS she had her own goals and ambitions. She was herself important. In BvS her only role is that of damsel in distress. This was probably one of the most insulting and blatantly misogynistic portrayals of Lois Lane ever. As I think more about her character. It really is sad how she has been treated. Both Amy Adams and Lois deserved better than the treatment they got here.
In short... too late I suppose, this movie made me a little sad. I was hopeful, and I still am for some of it, but overall this film lacked in too many areas to give me a good impression of the developing DCCU.