I walked into the movie worried due to critics, but I ended up not being disappointed and enjoying it.

Rating: 6/10 (25 March 2016)

*SPOILERS FOR ANYONE WHO HASN'T SEEN IT* I don't know where to start, but I'll start with what I didn't like. I would have liked at least a little, more, character development with Batman and Superman in the movie before Superman was ultimately killed by Doomsday. I was worried about this film having too much action and destruction like before. Essentially Batman and Superman have one scene together which is the main fight. That was the most we got out of their time together on screen. I thought there would be more fights. The fight was a little slow, which I thought it should have been fast- paced at some points, rather than the slow punches.
Lex Luthor's motivations were evil and plausible. I liked that. I also welcomed Jesse Eisenberg's performance. I was very skeptical of him at first but I came to buy his performance as Lex Luthor and thought he did a good job. But I hope he evolves and grows darker and less silly.
I liked Man of Steel but had mixed feelings about it. For one, the dark and gritty tone and two, the lack of humor. I was worried about Batman v Superman being straight-up serious and anti-humor and jokes...but I actually bought the serious tone for the first time, and found myself engaged. A DC movie deserves such treatment anyways and Superman deserves to be taken seriously, but not so far to the extent that it has to be dark. It was leading to somewhere great, but didn't have a satisfying outcome. I found myself enjoying this film more than a Marvel film. I was suddenly more hyped about this I was for Captain America: Civil War.
What I'm saying is prior to this, I was confident about Captain America 3 being a fun movie, but serious with occasional humor, no people getting killed, etc. I don't know how to put it, but Batman v Superman nailed it. The serious tone worked for the first time without jokes. I'm not against jokes in movies, that is not to say there wasn't any humor in Batman v Superman, there was, but for the first time I did not feel bored without humor or jokes. The serious tone worked.
The only factor the film lacked was Superman. Yes, he was in the movie. But doing the Doomsday story already? I was disappointed. I wanted to see Superman develop and also see his friendship with Batman develop.
Affleck as Bruce Wayne and Batman, nailed it. Amy Adams played an important role in this, and she was very good. Although I'll say that her Lois still seems more like an every- woman rather than Lois...she is not sassy or funny enough like she usually is. That was the only problem. I was happy with Superman's first rescue scene but thought it was too short....did Superman kill that guy or did he just get injured? Also...rescuing that girl from a fire...it would have nice to get a full-length scene of Superman rescuing people rather than just showing a montage of him saving various people.
At least we got Superman interacting with Lex Luthor twice, saving Lois 3 times and briefly fighting Doomsday. He was active as Clark Kent. Superman could have spoken more for God's sake. In the hearing, not a goddamn word...that one scene with Martha...not one word...that scene with Jonathan...pretty quiet. I did not want Doomsday to get involved so soon, but as he was planned to be in this story anyways, I would have expected a longer fight scene between Doomsday and Superman, but now that story is over...and we can't get a full-length and proper Death and Return of Superman story anymore because they did it so soon and rushed it.
Lawrence Fishburne played a damn good Perry White. Loved the Justice League cameos. Barry Allen...is he homeless?
The most interesting moral dilemma in the movie was "Must there be a Superman?" and that played a pretty good role in this movie. This film put Superman through a lot of conflict which was good. I liked that.
Having said all this, it was a great movie, despite Superman having less screen time, and in and of that itself, he had great scenes but ending the movie with the Death of Superman was wrong. I know he is coming back but this is only after 2 movies, we get Justice League. I don't want to count Suicide Squad since it does not involve Superman nor center on the DC heroes. And how are they going to start Justice League? Superman shows up by the end of the movie? Well what kind of movie is that? What about the Reign of the Supermen, and the black Superman suit/mullet hair Superman...is that going to happen? I don't see it happening. People could be less excited for Justice League now as it sounds like it won't be the ultimate superhero team up we are expecting. First half or more without Superman.
I don't know what rating to give it because I am still processing this and need to see it again, so a 7 or 8 out of 10 for me. An improvement over Man of Steel. Better balance. Better editing. Less action, consequently though, not enough. Superman could have kicked more of Batman's ass...the trinity versus Doomsday could have been a little bit longer. That's my review.