Watch this for Affleck's Batman

Rating: 6/10 (26 March 2016)

I'd like to start out by blasting the editing team. You did an awful job! Plain awful! Alfred's dialogues in the first half sound like a kid reciting dialogues for a school play. I assume he had more lines which were edited out to fit the two and a half hour mark. A lot of scenes felt out of place, one in particular baffled me. We're watching Lex Luther on the screen and suddenly the scene transitions to Batman's dream which is emotional and in slow motion. It's like jumping from Star wars to Ben Hur in a flash and expecting the viewer to indulge in the scene instantaneously. I'm assuming again that this was editing team's stupidity.
Jesse eisenberg's performance was underwhelming. This part should've been played by someone who could appear imposing. I just couldn't take Jesse seriously in this one. I'm not a fan of Ben Affleck, but I've to agree that he did a very good job(Hear the resentment in my words? Yes, I'm a Bale fan. But this chap played the older Batman really well. Kudos to finding the new Batman!). Henry Cavill's Superman is just OK in my view, there's nothing spectacular about him in this movie either. His role and "performance" is just a continuation of man of steel. Wonder woman didn't have a huge role(hardly 10 lines), but Gal Gadot pulled it off. You can totally picture her as Wonder woman. Amy Adams' and Diane Lane's cameos were good too.
Although the action sequences were a lot gritty than any previous Batman series, I have a few gripes. There's an action sequence in Batman's dream where he fights soldiers (or mercenaries?) while looking for kryptonite. It was dismal! They had more than 2 years to make this movie and nobody saw that stupid fight sequence before releasing the movie? The soldiers attacking Batman have guns, but most of them forgot to use them. It was a close combat fist fight scene where everybody was like 15 feet away from each other. After Batman beats up one soldier, the next dazed soldier standing 15 feet away who has apparently forgotten he's holding a gun runs to Batman to get beaten up. And this continues till he beats up 3 more guys. Such things are unacceptable when you're making a big budget movie with so much time at your hands! The last big fight between doomsday and Batman, Superman and Wonder woman was reminiscent of the final fight from man of steel. There were barely any emotions to the whole scene. Just mindless action (some transformers inspiration!). In contrast, Batman vs Superman fight was enjoyable, it felt like the Bat really wanted to hurt Superman in that one. The fight scene following that was amazing! Batman gets shot multiple times wearing the bullet proof suit. It was Arkham Knight gritty.
The cinematography was commendable. With all the budget and cgi at their disposal, Hollywood is getting really good at transcending it's thoughts into a beautiful scene. Bat cave, the batmobile chase, Batman's high rise building shots, all looked really good.
I felt the story was good enough to set up the Justice league. Minus the stupid editing, Lex Luther and mindless action, it would've been an 8 rating movie. Watch this one for Affleck's Batman.