True to it's source, but not the best comic book movie of the year

Rating: 8/10 (25 March 2016)

Overall i think it was a good movie, and as comic book movies go it ranks up with the top (but not the best).
The opening of the film was good; it opens up the character of Batman the way it always happens and in good style and acknowledges it source material with "The Mask of Zorro" which was what the Wayne's saw before Thomas and Martha were killed. it introduces Bruce to the world he lives in, but it doesn't go into huge detail like it has in previous movies, which i like because there is no need to delve into his story when we've seen it often and enough and it was an appropriate decision as this movie was not a Batman solo movie. It should have been slightly more obvious that it was a dream as it was misleading. What happened after the movies opening was okay, we get to see superman, he rescues Lois, beats the bad guys, but why did he have to go through the walls? It wasn't necessary. After that we get to see the ongoing love life between Lois and Clark, but it wasn't good to see them having fun in a tub that's just stupid. They perfectly justified an developed at from the opening of the film. Luther's attempts to metaphorically kill superman in front of the world was smart and cleaver, the shooting at the start and the bombing at the hearing are good examples. The way doomsday was brought into the movie was not terrible, but it wasn't good either, I thought his final appearance was good and when he killed superman was (in my opinion) great, but it would have been better if it was in a superman solo movie.
Seeing Batman kill people wasn't good at all because in the comics and his other films Batman is strictly against killing anyone. Overall Ben Affleck's portrayal of Batman was absolutely perfect. Seeing a new Lex Luther was a good move for the character, but their are areas for improvement with the new Lex. The fact that Lex was made to look quite mad was a bad move. Overall I think Jessie Eisenberg's performance of Lex Luther was good. Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman was amazing, a great opening to the character and shows the good qualities of Wonder Woman.
When it comes to it's source material it shows it pretty good, notable examples include Bruce having a nightmare of a giant bat, Batman coming back and causing trouble with the law, superman in a nuclear explosion and needed to be rejuvenated, Doomsday killing superman (but that could have been done better). The way these are executed in the film are good and make it a good film, but if some were done better then it would've made the film better. The bets part was during Batman and superman's fight when he was getting the upper hand in the fight. The sound wave machines and Batman's kryptonite gas gun were used well which is a good adaptation of the comics, but the best thing about it in my opinion was when Batman was standing on superman's throat.
What made the film not as good as expected was just little things really.The biggest problem tho had to be doomsday. Doomsday is a prehistoric kryptonian monster, and this film made him a deformed resurrected version of Zod. It was also completely stupid how hes creates explosions when he changes his form. Other things that let the film down was part of Lex Luther. The way how he lost his hair was stupid the fact that at time he just found things funny when they were not even funny and the tune he was singing at the end. When we see other members of the justice league they introduced the characters to the rest of the DCEU, and i know we can't see a lot of them because it opens up the justice league but it would have been better if we had seen a little more Cyborg.