The blatant story issues outweigh the fun action and characters.

Rating: 4/10 (29 March 2016)

I despise when people hate for the sake of hating. I want to make it clear, this is not a movie I have a vendetta against, but a movie that legitimately left me frustrated even though I even liked Man of Steel. The biggest problem is that there were four movies crammed into one. At first it was set up as a Batman film with Superman as the villain, but two minutes later Superman is the hero and Lex Luthor is the villain. Then, we see the press' view of Superman. This is a big issue from a story stand point. They pit two conflicting stories with two vastly different tones. This made it so hard to be invested any one side. None had a full arc. Any one of those would be a good movie but it doesn't commit on any. It commits on the least interesting story; that is Doomsday. The story rotated every five minutes had had no focus. They set up Superman as hating the "bat vigilante" which was well done, but they didn't have time to commit so Perry says to stop. For whatever reason, Superman listens making the BvS fight way less interesting. The scene I looked most forward to was the press scene. They asked several good, deep questions and so I was excited to see Superman answer those giving a counter argument but they ended up the meeting before it got interesting!!!! This movie had so many themes I couldn't keep track (I don't think the writers could either) and the one opportunity to wrap them all together, they ruined. By the end they had so many themes introduced I couldn't even tell what each character was fighting for. The worst is, I really, really enjoyed most of this movie but the clunky story telling made it hard to concentrate on what was going on. This is more of a preference, but Zach Snyder's editing doesn't work for me. He lingers on shots for too long, has awkward slow motion and also overuse of flashing CGI making it hard to watch. At the end, something emotional happens, but the way it was shot was so vague it's impossible to feel what's going on. Lastly, there are so many stories branching off and none had real closure. This made the whole movie feel so unsatisfying and anticlimactic. Overall, the things I like were so outweighed by the- not large in quantity-blatant story issues. There is some good fan service so go see it for the fun of seeing all it go down.