No one wanted this to be great more than me...

Rating: 7/10 (26 March 2016)

Believe me, no one wanted this movie to be amazing more than me. I have never written a review before but I felt compelled to after seeing this movie. I am a huge DC fan, Superman is my favorite superhero, and I actually loved Man of Steel, but I was disappointed with this. This wasn't actually fully Zak Snyder's fault, the tone and acting in this movie was actually pretty good, and the fight scenes are beautiful. The problem was that DC and WB have gotten scared of Marvel's success and tried to rush a Justice League movie by making this movie a pre-JL jammed-packed mess. This is really 3-4 movie plot lines in a single movie. The fight scenes in this movie are really good, but we know Snyder can do that. There is just no meat here. As much as I loved Wonder Woman in the fight scene, every other scene with her out of costume seemed useless and the only purpose was to propel the JL angle. If this movie was purely about Batman and Superman and their fight, it would have been an excellent movie (besides Lex). Don't get me started on Lex... I like Jesse Eisenberg but the jittery psychopath take just didn't work for me. Besides all the JL stuff, there are a few script issues too. The way they revealed the other JL members was awful, so lazy. I loved the casting of Amy Adams as Louis Lane and loved her in MoS, but her character seemed lost in this movie, like they tried to find stuff for her to do. She was just annoying and Superman had to constantly go out of his way to save her, even in the middle of a fight! One of the best parts of this movie though was Affleck as batman. He killed it (and everyone else I guess ha). I'm actually excited for some solo movies with him as the Bat.
I know I gave this a 7, mostly out of nostalgia and how beautiful the movie looks. The problems with this movie are DC's fault in trying to rush Justice League and a messy script. They just forgot to make a good movie I guess.