What a Mess...But It's Kind of an Entertaining Mess

Rating: 6/10 (4 June 2016)

Right...I'm going to start off by saying that I thought it was a pretty damn fun watch...without a doubt it was extremely flawed but it was kind of fun, whether I was entertained by some of the unintentionally funny dialogue or the actual intentional aspects of the film is up for debate but if someone was to ask 'was I entertained?' I would certainly reply yes.
The dark & brooding Affleck was very convincing as both Batman & Bruce Wayne, Jeremy Irons & Laurence Fishburne although fleeting in screen time had some very funny & memorable dialogue, Jesse Eisenberg...well I'm probably going to break the general consensus here & state that I thought it was a bold & worthy attempt at breathing new life into a villain that needed something new to offer, that's not to say that at times he was a testing experience & galloping over the acceptable edge but I liked small aspects of what Eisenberg was trying to bring to the character, you certainly feel Gal Gadot's screen presence & she's effective as Wonder Woman & my word her music theme was just fantastic as was the general scoring of the film, those are what I deemed the positives.
Now lets go to the negatives, it was always going to be difficult to get the complete job done that needed to be done to build up to what is to come from their own DC cinematic universe so it's no surprise that editing of scenes together certainly felt a bit awkward at times, it was like the director went 'right I need this scene to happen, then this scene to happen & then this scene to happen' without really a thought as to how to actually link them together seamlessly, so now we get to 'that scene' you know the scene where they try to do what Marvel did over the course of five films before they made The Avengers, a world building, super-team building segment, it certainly does feel forced, on another note why was there a need for two...that's right two fake out dream segments?! One is clichéd enough, two is truly unforgivable, also the inclusion of a literally 'recycled' foe/villain towards the films end was rather uninspiring, also as I've said previously in my positives I was entertained by the dialogue but my word is some of it utter nuts & bolts dialogue & there's certain lines that for me were truly laugh out loud but unintentionally funny from a scriptwriters point of view, examples of this are a certain Kryptonian spaceships computer & comments made by characters as Superman is taking Doomsday into space were moments I couldn't hold myself back with laughter.
So how to sum it up? Well it certainly isn't the complete disaster many critics would have you believe but on an equally important note it certainly isn't anywhere near any of Marvel's best, it's big dumb superhero fun, given what I'd read beforehand & the fact that my expectations were never high in seeing this film maybe has had an effect on how I've eventually come to this slightly more positive than expected opinion, like I said if you're in the right mood this is a film that can be fun...however there's is stuff that is unforgivable & it kind of depends how much you're willing to forgive the filmmakers for cramming so much in, so massively & extremely flawed but if you're in the forgiving mood it can be kind of fun & that is my final verdict...phew! That was as epic & the Batman v Superman film itself