Don't Be Influenced by Negative Press Reviews

Rating: 8/10 (27 March 2016)

I recently watched this film on a late night showing; so late in-fact that I had the center-cinema-sweet-spot with nobody surrounding me.
Waiting for this films release; the mere concept of a Batman/Superman shake-up was but a comic book fanboy dream; yet there I was waiting through what seemed to be 30 minutes of ad-trailers.
I left the cinema slowly nodding my head, corner lips aimed down with a fixated certainty in my eye; 'that was a damn good film'.
That doesn't mean to say I didn't have issues with it, because I did - at the end of the day anyone familiar with the universe and Graphic Novels or Animation universe - this film didn't stick to a predetermined script. However we knew this, coming out of Man of Steel with the early introduction of General Zod and his death.
Moving on to the issues then (minor plot spoilers ahead); - Batman The Detective; not so much when watching this film, the genius that knows everything about his enemy, missed key facts about our red-capped friend... Even I know who Martha is...

Superman/Doomsday; I won't overly expand on this for those who are yet to see. This was summarised in 30 minutes when in actual fact this story line should have stretched out at least one full standalone Superman film.

Batman/Murderer; is seen killing and snapping necks in one scene. Now this was only really brought to my attention after the film (possibly due to me floating in a DC Universe bubble). The closest I thought Batman went to killing was the Bat-branding we saw in this film which I thought added a dark story behind this old seasoned Batman. Unless circumstances changed when he was tasked with saving Martha Kent... Does this fit in with what happened after the 'Flash'back? - Death of Clark Kent; Need I say more? Not sure what a Superman looks like without his alter-ego. This can be corrected but it won't be in a conventional DC Universe style - slight uncertainty here.

Some positive/exciting notes; - 'Flash'back. The sequence that saw the Flash breaking through time and space to message Batman, 'Protect Lois, she is the key'. Very 'Injustice: Gods Among Us' right!? - Elseworlds-type approach?. Injustice: Gods Among Us showed a completely different story that got us all pretty gripped; the idea of Superman being bad was an interesting concept but never quite looked at in this brutal light. The glimpse of this in Batman v Superman was nice to see, I also think this explains the direction of the DC Cinematic Universe. Content from some of the best stories are being pulled into one - the Doomsday Summary, Death of Clark Kent, Introduction of the JLA (Characters) and the 'Flash'back. I would love to see a Flashpoint Paradox that incorporated the scene we saw in this film, could it be that a different inter-dimensional Batman was part of the plan to correct the future turn-out of events? Could a JLA Flashpoint Paradox film show what 'could have happened?'.
This film throws a lot of content at you; there's a lot of detail and a lot of questions to be answered. If these questions are answered in the other individual JLA films then some could be missing the point in this film...
We have just jumped into the future without a saddle and find ourselves unsure of what we're looking at.
Solid film; worth a watch but don't rock up thinking you're going to see what you've read in a book as we're being thrown a slightly different take; much like Injustice: Gods Among Us.
It's worth noting that Affleck's performance was very good. Y'know haters gonna hate!