Excellent production, story has flaws

Rating: 5/10 (5 September 2017)

***Lots of SPOILERS*** For one thing I am sick and tired of the representation of public backlash at superheroes which is becoming so common in movies by both of the major comic franchises. It may be realistic of how some would react, but guess what - all these superheroes are totally unrealistic, so who needs this realism. I don't want this trash in my fictional superhero stories.
So much of this movie is wasted either on this paranoia, or in attempts to counter it. And even the intellectual Bruce Wayne falls for the paranoia. He becomes even more firmly entrenched after Superman shows him a quality that would be impossible in the type of person Batman considers him - mercy.
Funny how the end of the movie is opposite of the beginning in the sense that the death of Superman is almost universally mourned on a level due to heads of state.
The other major story flaw is how quickly and completely Batman changed his attitude to Superman. The entire movie hinges on this. True, his reverence for his mother is built up heavily in early scenes, but his about face is practically a world view change, as fundamental as his sense of justice, and occurs in seconds. Such a change is ludicrous. Hesitation perhaps, but not a complete turnaround.
The dream sequence was so surreal that it was fairly obvious that it was a dream.
A Kryptonian ship with incredible technology is programmed to turn itself and its technology over so easily to a human? And the subject of the climax to the movie, Doomsday, we have no hint of for well over half the movie. No hint.
Fortunately, some of the early plot also does two things that are of interest. We meet Diana Prince. And we begin to see small pieces of the foundation being laid for the League of Justice. Diana is too much of a small piece of the story to rescue this movie from the flaws, but her impact for the better is far beyond what is could have been, maybe even should have been. We are already getting hints in this movie of the blockbuster that is to come summer of 2017.
The climatic battle with Doomsday is great stuff as we'd expect in a comic based movie. Of course Wonder Woman was awesome. It was odd to me how superhuman she was, practically indestructible. At least a couple of things we see in this movie aren't clear until we see Wonder Woman.
Diana makes a comment at the cemetery which is so true about the real world in a macro sense. "Man made a world where standing together is impossible." This is even truer in 2017 than it was when the movie was made.