A darker, more mature era for comic book films. A must see.

Rating: 9/10 (26 March 2016)

In 2007 "I am legend" had an Easter egg, a batman/superman logo on a billboard, ever since that tease I've had a thirst to see those 2 on the big screen in an epic adventure... that thirst has been quenched.
BVS surpassed its predecessor "Man of steel" in every way imaginable. The acting was superb, the fighting scenes were intense, hardcore and choreographed as well as you'd expect from a Zack Snyder film (which is to say amazing). The story drew itself out a bit but still manages to keep you entertained or at the very least intrigued. This is no surprise to anyone who has seen Snyder's previous films, "Watchmen" in particular. It's similar to watchmen, bringing in politics and different point of views on super heroes from the perspective of us normal folk, the government, other super heroes and of course the villain.
BVS takes itself serious, it has a few laughs but to be absolutely clear it is far from Disney's MCU. If you walk in looking forward to the stereotypical action-comedy adventure, predictable, fun, bright and optimistic comic book movie you're going to be disappointed. Prepare yourselves before you walk in, this is a action-drama adventure, its dark, gritty and as violent as a PG-13 rating allows. It paves the way for WB's DCU, and they're new take on a more mature comic book movie-verse, and it does it wonderfully. Showing their JLA team members with out diverting itself from the story and also getting us comic fans excited about the next step of this universe.
As for the members that were in the spotlight, they were fantastic. Ben Affleck as an older, war-weary Bruce Wayne aka Batman was (to my surprise) amazing. This Batman fought, not just using his elbows (looking at you Christian Bale) but every inch of his bulked up, batman-like body. Before when i mentioned the intense fighting scenes i was referring to him. Henry Cavill, a confused by internal conflicts Clark Kent aka Superman does his part as well as he did in MOS, also my favorite Superman. Gal Gadot's performance as the mysterious wonder woman truly was one of the best parts of this movie. Not much time on screen as wonder woman which is fine since the movie isn't called BVSVW, but when she finally showed up the crowed applauded. Jesse Eisenber did a good part playing an eccentric Lex Luthor who's motives weren't completely revealed but seeing as how he's crazy that's OK. Not my favorite depiction of Lex but Jesse did his part and came through acting wise (another surprise). Jeremy irons plays Alfred just as good as Micheal Caine though its a different depiction of him.
The plot does a good job of introducing all of these characters and an even better job and pitting these 2 heroes against each other, and any critic who says otherwise must've missed the first half hour of the movie or was simply A.D.Ding his way through this 2 and half hour film. As for the Batman vs Superman actual duel it was awesome to see these 2 iconic characters go head to head and hold nothing back, brawn vs brains, god vs man, dark vs light.
Overall i'd say this is a must see, 8.8/10. Even the slow parts kept me intrigued, great acting and action and it managed to pave the way for DCU perfectly. I cant wait for the next Zack Snyders DC film JLA!!!