It's A Dawn of Justice, alright!

Rating: 9/10 (23 March 2016)

Warning: HERE BE SPOILERS!
The huge gap between aggregated RT meter and audience score really reflects how out of tune with the reality the critics are when facing with DC's movies, especially one coming from "Snyderverse". It feels like there's a kind of anti-Snyder movement.
On the movie itself, I think people knows by this point that I REALLY LIKE THIS MOVIE. It's superhero movie for the grown up. Snyder is doing away with the introductions. Everybody knows about Superman and Batman. Wonder Woman is slightly changed, but it's mostly show, not tell. And the introduction of her background is done in one of the most efficient in-movie advertisement for the next movie ever. Her appearance in the movie is also organic. Back to Superman: he is a distraught persona, but as Clark Kent and Superman. Clark Kent is facing a Perry White who doesn't believe in the power of paper to uncover darkness anymore. Superman is facing both adoration and accusations from people.
Accusations that is distilled in the form of a paranoid Batman. Bruce Wayne is matured person, a beloved boss who loves his employees, and a respected public figure. Batman is a devilish presence in the dark corners of Gotham. Both shows vehemence toward Superman. This is balanced somewhat with an Alfred that is loyal to his master but also not afraid to mock him openly. The loyal guardian also support this his master's crusade to find a weapon that can kill Superman, all the way until they cross path with Lex Luthor.
A truly manipulative, blackmailing, ego maniacal Luthor unlike we have ever seen before. Literally. He has fabulous hair. He also has tapped into the power of surveillance in order to accumulate information and knowledge he can use. "Knowledge is power" is subverted in the hands of Lex Luthor. Which leads us to the event unfolding in the movie. You see, it all boils down to Lex Luthor seeking to deface God. His scheme involves smearing the name of Superman, agitating people into hating him, and dragging Batman to fight him.
All the while Luthor himself descends into literal and figurative madness. Creating monsters on all sides: minion monster, manipulated monster, and a literal monster of deformity born of man's hubris. The scheme explodes in the sequence of fighting that actually feels strange in this movie. It feels it has to be there simply because this is a superhero movie. But its presence is truly, truly welcome. After all, we got to see Wonder Woman in action for the first time in big screen; sword, shield, and lasso in a cacophony of big punches, laser beams, and explosions. Explosions of the magnitude by which no Marvel movies has done before.
And the finale of that fight, man, that finale. It truly gives a drive for the heroes to seek others like them.
They need them, those whose presence is known, in order to face the darkness that is about to come.
It is, after all, a Dawn of Justice.