If you watch this movie, watch the Ultimate Edition

Rating: 4/10 (31 July 2016)

After seeing the Theatrical Cut 3 times and the Ultimate Cut twice, I notice a big difference. The TC has a lot of flaws and is just bad while the UC has a lot less flaws and while the UC is still not great, it's not bad and a lot better than the TC.
These are the things I liked about the Theatrical Cut:

Ben Affleck as both Bruce Wayene and Batman is great, he is smart, charming and has some very good action. I can't wait for Affleck's solo Batman movie.

Alfred also is great, Jeremy Irons and Affleck work great together.

It's Zack Snyder so of course the visuals are going to be great. The movie is very pretty.

The action scenes (even though there aren't a lot) are great to look at. When Batman and Superman are fighting and later when the 3 fight Doomsday the way it's choreographed and shot is very good and just some kick ass action.

Batman in the warehouse is the best of the entire movie. Those 3 minutes of Batman kicking ass is awesome.

The first 20 minutes is quite good actually, it has to set up Batman in this universe and that's done quite well.

Wonder Womanis simply awesome and I can't wait for her standalone movie.

Things that the Ultimate Cut improved over the Theatrical Cut:

Editing, the TC was horribly edited because it had very weird cuts that didn't make sense to me and the UC fixed that. It made for a way more cohesive movie.

Superman's motivation for disliking Batman is almost non existent in the TC and the UC made that more clear. In the UC we see Superman go into Gotham where he sees what Batman has done but the TC left all of that out.

The plan that Lex Luthor has to set up the Batman and Superman fight makes a lot more sense, the UC shows a lot more backstory to how that works.

Things that still don't work for me after seeing the UC:

Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor was horribly miscast (I know that he's the son and not Lex himself but we were promised Lex, not his son, and they have the same name). Everyone who knows the character of Lex in the comics knows that Luthor is a smart precise and calm man. In this he's a lot more like the Joker and has some very weird and annoying moments.

The Martha scene is still there! If you've seen the movie you know what I'm talking about and that scene is just so effin dumb...

Lex Luthor has no real motivation to dislike Superman, he says some things about gods but there's never a moment that explains what Superman did to him for Luthor to dislike Superman. It could have been as easy as saying that Superman killed his father but that doesn't happen.

The dream sequences. For some reason that I still don't understand, Batman has dreams where he sees what happens in the future and it took me out of the movie. I know the under title of the movie is Dawn of Justice but that could well have been the title of the movie and Batman v Superman as under title.

The Justice League is introduced because Wonder Woman got an effin e-mail from Batman. I mean an e-mail? How stupid is that! And Lexcorp also had time to make logos for all of them......

The very end. They make the choice to kill off Superman which doesn't work because we've only had 2 movies with him and we don't care enough about him. But we know that he's going to appear in Justice League because the dirt floated. So you make a choice that pisses me off and then make another choice that pisses me off even more? *insert curse words* MOVIE!

Batman kills. He's always been a character on the edge but never killed without regret (except for the Dark Knight Returns but I don't like it there either). In this movie he's killed about 20 people and that's without counting the dream sequences.

And lastly I have some issues with the marketing:

The 3rd trailer spoiled Doomsday so I knew almost everything that was going to happen in this movie before actually seeing it.

The trailers showed almost all the action so I was misled and thought the movie would have way more action than it actually had. I timed all fight scenes (BvS, Batman in the warehouse and Doomsday) and I got to a mere 17 minutes. In a 3 hour movie....

There were too many clips and trailers. I know it needed to market itself but thanks to this movie, I limit myself to watching 1/2 trailers at the most for a movie from now on. This movie was overmarketed and it didn't pay off in the end because it underperformed a lot at the box office (especially domestically).

In the end I enjoy BvS more than most people I think because the good outweighs the bad. Batman is my favorite comic book character and he was very good in this movie (minus the killing of course) and there are just some really awesome things that I enjoy and therefore I give it a 7/10.