Epic Potential, drawn to above average

Rating: 7/10 (26 December 2016)

Let me state that I'm basing my review by watching the 3 hours Directors' cut not the 2.5 hours Theatrical one.
as the DC universe developed in recent years after the Nolan's Bat Trio and Man of Steel improvement, I hoped very high for the historic encounter between the Dark Knight and the Man of Steel, and it had all the potential, bold twists and innovation but unfortunately, with duo respect, Snyder managed to crash my expectations with poor final product that contained too many negative plot holes, irrational directions and poor editing and build.
First of all, I'm a fan of movies going beyond the 2 hours limitations, where I would watch a 2.5 or 3 hours movie and spend the same amount after to revisit and think about what happened in the movie and try to fill in the mysterious gaps. On the contrary, I spent the night trying to figure out how much it could have been screwed if it wasn't for few factors giving it a bit of hope.
I will try to point my views to summaries the crap in my mind:
1) Batman: I'm a Bale fan that thought Affleck would simply suck, boy am I glad I was wrong :) the twist for the character, to make him remorselessly kill and brutally torture serves the structure of a devastated, mentally disordered Batman that doesn't manage his powerless felling and concern for the world in the right way, becoming as Alfred said; cruel. Hands up, Affleck delivers the version of Batman needed and does it astonishingly and deep.
2) Superman: Cavill is the right guy, he's got the Reeve's look, broad shoulders and actually gives a decent act but, the idea of picturing him careless about the casualties, not caring about the public opinion and then to calm the rage go on rescuing individuals here and there? you can definitely introduce a new version of a hero but you CAN'T alter the concept of the hero!! that one is on the writers and director. Of course, its been always there that with his unprecedented powers that casualties are felt and seen but not in this way where it would happen and he doesn't give a shi* about it!
3) Wonder Woman: This was a nice edition, good character building, good acting and introduced in an exciting way. Also, how would you not like Gadot in a movie, talent + Beauty = Damn Yeah.
4) Alfred: Irons, a Brit of course, delivered pretty decent as Alfred no doubt, but its mentioned in the movie Batman has been fighting Gotham's scumbags for 20 years, which he did after being away for a while as we know, and Alfred was around long enough with the Wayne but still he is not that old ,, writers?!
5) Lex: Eisenberg was good, but in short, its still not what to expect as Lex Luthor.
6) Lois, Martha K., Perry and the support: Good enough.
7) Fighting: How can we not tip into fighting when its all these bad ass characters. I liked the fighting mechanism, especially with Bats, we can feel the Arkham Knight style which was great.
8) Cinematography: All is good, great cinematography and nice effects and CGI, except for the last fighting scenes but it was good enough, nothing is perfect.
9) Intro: I think it was good that we just got less than brief introduction to Aqua, Cyborg and Flash. The movie already had too many ideas that Snyder couldn't manage to fit all properly in 3 hours! Imagine having even more hahaha but it was a good move to leave the story for the independent movies, hoping for a better managing.
All in all, again, this movie was meant to be an epic, unfortunately it wasn't. In my opinion, with all respect to Snyder and his fans, he failed in putting all these characters, their lives and stories in one delicious Betty cake mix. Its hard, but not impossible, look at Marvel, having 10 heroes in a movie and still delivers right. I think Nolan would have been able to do a much better job at it, look at his product! but again we can never know what happens in DC's behind the curtains.
The movie is still good to watch and will deliver, at few points, but what a waste, what a waste. Still, looking forward for Justice League.