So great and So eh..

Rating: 5/10 (9 April 2016)

I'll be the first one to admit that my knowledge of the DC Universe is not so comprehensive as I would like it to be. That being said I was a little worried about this movie coming out since i found out it was in production. Many cause of the fact that people making a movie about BvS is like making a movie about Star trek vs Star wars. All that being said I wanted to like this film far more then I did.
To start off seeing yet another replay of Batman's creation was a huge let down for me personally. All I could think of was..."who doesn't already know this and how many times do I have to watch something that is so established?" They could have cut that time and maybe added a little more time explaining who the hell the Bad Guy actually was. Like I said I don't know as much about the DC Universe as I would like but I actually had to read reviews to find out who the bad guy was.
The Cast - I thought Ben would be iffy but I got used to it really fast and it didn't bother me at all. The cast for the movie I loved, mostly. I feel like everyone fits their roles. Even the brief Aquaman scene. Though the Flash..I was like..who is that? With the Flash TV show out it is hard to see two different people playing the same character. Really just makes things fall flat when they do that.
I believe that Lex had character issues. Not really the actors fault but how he was portrayed. My fiancé who knows nothing of DC kept asking me if Lex was the Joker. At first I recoiled against this but as I watched Lex i could see easily where she was getting that idea from. Lex seemed to be quite mentally unhinged rather then the persona I'm used to associating with Lex Luther the Brilliant/Business man. Lex just seemed to be more of a Smart lunatic then anything else.
The action of the movie was really good and the main fights were pretty epic..just the story behind all the fights is were things fall apart for me. I mean 3/4 the movie is the build up of tension between Batman and Superman and right at the moment of truth when Batman wins (who could have guessed Batman was going to win...sigh), all that happens is "Martha.." and TADA they just clap hands and start skipping down the yellow brick road. What the...seriously. All the build up, the people superman has killed, the way batman treats criminals...all of this..gone..cause their mother's name is the same...*Epic Faceplam*.
That single moment for me makes the entire first half of the movie seem just utterly pointless and that for me is the reason why I just couldn't like this movie as much as I wanted. It wasn't the Actors, Special Effects, the Battles. It was the execution of the story, the flow of the story, and its overall production.