Severely Underrated

Rating: Null/10 (26 March 2016)

There are a lot of negative reviews out there of Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice. And I almost believed them. Until I went and saw the movie for myself. I loved it. The biggest problem I saw was the pacing. There were times where some scenes would come and go before you had time to process what was going on. Which only lasts the first part of the movie. Once things really hit the fan, things are paced pretty nicely.
Let me start by saying Ben Affleck surprised me as Batman. I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt but I was still worried he'd be terrible. But I can safely say he did a good job as Batman. As of right now he's my second favorite live-action Batman. I'll have to see more of him in his solo movie before I can say if he's as good or better than Christian Bale.
Superman was one of my issues with the first half of the movie. He seemed to be glossed over a lot. Where his scenes would zip by. Like a rescue of a girl trapped in a burning building. Instead of getting to see him save her, we see as he's returning her to her family. I would have liked to see him in action more than what he was in the earlier parts of the film.
Wonder Woman has a fairly small role. But people clapped when she first entered the final battle of the movie.
There is a conspiracy against Superman where he is framed to appear like he killed some terrorists that led to corrupt governments having villagers killed in retaliation. We see why Batman wants to beat Superman's brains in, which was evident in the trailers.
The fight between Batman and Superman was epic. Batman utilized Kryptonite to give him a fighting chance. Kryptonite came into play after some was recovered from the World Engine from Man of Steel that crashed in the Indian Ocean after Superman destroyed it. Lex got his hands on it, and Batman stole it from him so he could use it in his fight against Superman. No spoilers about who won the fight.
We all saw Doomsday in the trailer. And all I'll say here is that the fight is pretty awesome. Wonder Woman and Superman slug it out with Doomsday and Batman spawn camps him with a Kryptonite smoke grenade.
I don't want to give too much away. But all of the negative reviews are unwarranted. It seems like if something doesn't have Marvel Studios in the title it is already under extreme scrutiny. Since the movie has a dark tone and isn't full of knock-knock jokes and fart jokes like the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies (an exaggeration, but those movies do get carried away with the jokes), people seem to have a negative opinion. People had already written off the movie because of Affleck's casting, which isn't fair considering people gave wooden acting Chris Evans a chance as Captain America (which he gives a wooden performance there).
I have seen people whine about the plot holes. And there are a couple. How does Lex find out Clark is Superman? How did Clark find out Bruce was Batman? How did Lois know to get the Kryptonite spear? But I can look past those because they weren't as massive a plot hole as the end of Thor: The Dark World where Thor couldn't see through Loki's disguise after seeing through his illusions earlier in the same movie.
Frankly, this movie had the guts to do what Marvel doesn't. There is a death in this movie that shocked me. Don't want to give too much away, but people aren't going to be happy because he didn't have baseball cards on him and he didn't pop up peachy-keen in the next scene like every character killed in the Marvel Cinematic Universe movie except for Quicksilver in Age of Ultron.
As I said, my biggest issue with the movie was the pacing. There were rumors late 2014 and early 2015 that Batman v. Superman was going to be broken up into two movies. And I wish they had done that. Then the pacing wouldn't have been an issue. There were parts of this movie where it felt like two movies being played out in one movie. But what can you do? Seems they only break movies into two parters when it's a young adult novel series. So what can you do?
Give this movie a chance. Frankly, I don't trust professional critics anymore. Seeing as how they act like every Marvel Cinematic Universe movie is solid gold when most of them have 1 dimensional villains and always have to rely on a MaGuffin to move the plot along. People go into those movies with an automatic positive view just because critics give them all stellar reviews, even when they are complete garbage like Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World. And people seem to only want to go into DC movies with a negative outlook these days. All I can say is watch the movie for yourself. The pacing is a little quick, but the action is great, Ben Affleck actually did a good job, and the movie has a shocking moment that I know I'll be talking about for a long time at the end.
And not to bash people who liked it, how can critics slam this movie while praising Star Wars Ep. VII which most of that was a rehash of A New Hope? And those same critics will no doubt sing the praise of that new Ghostbusters movie that everyone is throwing up about.