Very well done

Rating: 8/10 (23 March 2016)

Got to see an early preview. My spoiler-free thoughts: Ben Affleck does a great Batman, large and powerful, very Frank Miller- esque, beyond expectations Jesse Eisenberg is too over the top for my tastes, I think he channeled too much of Jim Carrey's Riddler (my sister in law thought he really wanted to be the Joker, maybe looking for Heath Ledger's acclaim). Luthor was never crazy to me, cunning and always with a backup plan and clean hands/alibi Superman is more of the same from Man of Steel, very well done. However, this is really a Batman story, he ends up being a clear #2 in terms of presence and screen time. Gal Gadot is no Linda Carter, but she wears the role well. My complaint is more the writers making her SO powerful, a lot stronger than ever depicted in the comics. Her plot line didn't make much sense at all, but she had to be introduced somehow. Zack Snyder's shaky-cam in the first 10 minutes made me want to puke, luckily it settled down after that. The Batmobile is a little over the top, do they have adamantium in the DC universe?
FYI, There is no after credit teaser for the next movie; it's built into the middle of the script. And it is very ambitious.
Overall, I liked it a lot, had low expectations and it far exceeded them. The movie feels a lot like a video game during the battle scenes, which isn't a bad thing. Wish they had picked difference source material (The Dark Knight Returns would have been better later in the series in my opinion - it plays better when Clark and Bruce have had a long relationship, rather than when they're just meeting each other). My only other gripe is that despite being dark, they could have thrown a little more fun in - Bruce Wayne as playboy, Alfred being Alfred, Jimmy Olsen(?). This was two and a half hours of all business...