I really really wanted to love this movie, but just couldn't.

Rating: 8/10 (26 March 2016)

After 3 years of waiting, did it live up to the hype? No, sadly. It isn't even possible not be to be excited to see The Caped Crusader and The Son of Krypton go head to head on the big screen, now is the fight amazing? HELL YEAH!! for a brief 15 minutes. The main problem with this blockbuster is that its slow in the beginning then rushed in the end, the pacing was horrible and the story telling could've been done better.
Basically this film is The Dark Knight Returns and The Death Of Superman put to screen. The overall performances were spectacular, Ben Affleck is the best Batman/Bruce Wayne on screen yet. Although she had only 16 lines, Gal Gadot kills it as Wonder Woman.. Henry Cavill is great as Superman and especially Clark Kent. Jeremy Irons nails it as Alfred. Amy is a great Lois Lane, although she was shoehorned into most of this movie just to get saved by Superman. You might think everyone nailed it in the film, well not exactly. Jesse Eisenberg's portrayal of Lex Luthor Jr. is bad, like really bad. In the scenes that he was supposed to be menacing in made me laugh harder than I laughed in the Deadpool movie. All of the lines he delivered were corny and made him look more like a fool than he already was with that stupid wig on his head that looked like a mop.
Now the action was phenomenal, Zack Snyder sure does know how to make beautiful fights, Batman's fighting style reminded me a lot of the Arkham games because of how brutal he was, the frustrating part is that I think Batman killed a dozen people, like this incarnation of Batman doesn't go by his moral code anymore. Wonder Woman's soundtrack is the best I've heard in years and she steals the show when she fights the monstrosity called Doomsday, ugh we'll get to that part later, now the sad thing in the beginning is that they kill off Jimmy Olsen and Kal-El practically murders a terrorist while saving Lois, like he literally bashes him through several walls!
Doomsday, not only was his creation rushed and dumb and that he was supposed to be the big surprise of the movie then was shown to us in the second trailer, his appearance was even worse!! He looked like a troll from The Hobbit or The Abomination from The Incredible Hulk.
To the biggest plot twist of the whole film that was directly ripped out of the pages of Dan Jurgens' The Death of Superman. Superman and Doomsday kill each other at the same time, showing the heroism of Superman. To be honest I was shocked they had the balls to do that but at his and Clark Kent's funeral, in the last shot of the movie we see the dirt on the the casket rise revealing superman is in fact alive, I hated that they didn't end it before that like we all knew he's coming back cause you cant have a Justice League without Superman but at least stretch his death a little bit longer.
Another thing that bothered me was that the Justice League members' cameos that were promised, were shown to us through surveillance footage!, like really?!?! that's the best Hollywood writers can do?! The other shoehorned cameo was in the thrilling yet confusing (for non-comic- book fans) nightmare sequence that Bruce Wayne has about an apocalyptic future, when Bruce 'wakes' up from the nightmare we see The Flash traveling back in time and warning Bruce about Superman and how Batman was right about him and that Lois lane is the key to everything and Batman has to find them. The scene was out of place and confusing for the majority, this is probably some sort of Flashpoint Paradox that we'll see in the future.
My finally thoughts about this film is that it could've have been better, hopefully the R-Rated three hours edition will be better. This movie had the same flaws as Avengers: Age of Ultron were in that movie it's main aim was to set up future MCU projects and in this case it tried to build up the future of the DC Cinematic Universe and introduce the Justice League, this film focused on the Dawn of Justice (League) more than it did on Batman v Superman.