I have waited, and now I've watched it

Rating: 6/10 (29 March 2016)

This movie is...controversial. In my opinion it isn't great although has its redeeming factors, it is in fact quite mediocre. Which is personally a big let down because I have been so hyped up for this for so long. My biggest problem with this is its story, to be more precise there is too much story. Now what can I possibly mean by this? Isn't lots of story/plot development good? Well yes, but in the case of Batman V Superman we didn't get any dept instead we get literally a lot of stories.
I reckon there are about 6 or 7 different plot lines going on. Batman's revenge/hate towards superman, Lois Lane journalist stuff, the general public deciding whether they should accept superman, superman dealing with the post 'man of steel' problems, "The dawn of justice", Superman and Lois' love story and Lex Luthor tinkering with "________" and alien stuff(+doomsday). There is too much content. Now I would've settled with like a maximum of 3, the DCCU has bit off far too much than they could chew. It would've been good enough to have this actually being batman v superman, without all the other mumbo jumbo. But because they tried to fit so much in nothing worked, not even the 'main event'. Superman didn't really even have any motives to fight batman, I didn't really see any reason why they settled the feud. Both the motives to begin to fight and to stop fighting were sloppy and didn't make much sense at all.
Now, as a fan of DC and comics in general I could understand what was happening because I've got the background knowledge and I basically know what is going to go down. But my friends who went to watch it with me who weren't comic book fans struggled and was quite confused at the end of it as far as I could tell. Watching Batman V Superman was like watching a Game of Thrones episode without watching any other episodes. Where we cut around and jump around to each character, how are we the viewers supposed to know what on Earth is happening when every other shot we move on to another plot line and character with no build up to anything.
However like I said there are some redeeming factors, Batfleck was great, I like how they did this Batman. He kills, which puts of lots of fans but to me it's absolutely alright. Batman had cool fights scenes and looks great. Superman was decent, basically what we saw in Man of Steel. But the big break out was definitely Gal Gadot's Wonder woman, although most of the time she is Diana Prince when we finally get Wonder Woman it was amazing. From what I can see apparently she is more overpowered than Batman and Superman, single handedly holding off a certain someone that was hammering old Bats and Sups. Plus overall it had good visuals and action.
The reason why I still gave it a 7/10 is because of how much I liked Wonder woman and Batman in this movie and the convoluted plot was more of a cringe to me instead of a complete put off. I understood that they wanted to establish this universe and give us the basis of the DCCU which is why they tried to fit in so much which I can get behind if it means that we would get a great DCCU. So overall although it wasn't great I shall have faith that at least it has paved the path to a great DCCU.