Hard to watch

Rating: 3/10 (4 July 2016)

I just could not get into this film. Both characters motives for disliking each other feel misplaced. Even in the beginning I mean an alien spaceship is attacking and Wayne Financial's employees are standing pat for Bruce's 'ok' to leave the building - just so much wrong with the set up. Do not get me wrong the battle scenes were great, and I even think Affleck wasn't all that bad as batman. The thing I just can't get over is that they had such great source material (The Dark Knight Returns - Frank Miller) and instead just tried to make a continuation of a Superman film mixed in with a few sprinkles of Gotham. The dichotomy between the two character's worlds within the DC universe just wasn't well established or connected appropriately. Lastly, Wonder woman's role seemed like she was trying to be Catwoman from The Dark Knight Rises for 9/10ths of the the film and then went sword and board for the final scene and Lex seemed way to Joker esque.
Acting 4/10 (Superman, Batman, Lois were all great IMO) Visual Effects 8/10 (Nothing ground breaking, but great) Story 3/10 (Three hours to paint that narrative...) Lore 2/10 (Zack's own words, "I wanted Bruce Wayne to build the Justice League. I felt like with Superman around, it's a different conversation when you create the Justice League, right? It's like, 'Me and Superman, we want to make a Justice League.' Other heroes would be like, 'Okay, yeah, I'll join!' I just feel like Bruce Wayne having to go out and find these seven samurai by himself, that's a lot more interesting of a premise." - so he killed Superman to make more movies, great reason to kill Superman.)
3/10 for the battle scenes only.