Disjointed film; interesting Batman, bad plot

Rating: 6/10 (24 March 2016)

I was very excited about the movie but sorely disappointed after watching it tonight. I quickly realised that I would only watch the movie once. The plot is all over the show, some scenes are very odd, and Zach Snyder tries to do what only Christopher Nolan seems to be able to do well in a movie - develop concomitant related threads of a plot and join them up in an organised fashion. Except Zach Snyder fails miserably. Lex Luther is way over the top, and the idea of how the two main superheroes co-exist in this 'world' is scarcely believable (if one is to believe anything about superhero movies - but Nolan was able to do that with Batman, and Snyder did it well with the first Superman). Maybe the premise itself was always too far fetched. The positives are an interesting Batman, who has less scruples than the Nolan Batman; some nice one liners, some good action scenes, and a nice intro to the movie that connects us to the recent Superman movie. I don't know how the follow ups are going to lift the series. Disappointed.