It's Batman v Superman...but we all loose...

Rating: 7/10 (24 March 2016)

My God, I wanted to love this movie. I needed to love this movie. I hope it gets better on a second viewing but I don't think it will. It's a mess. A big, incoherent mess. There's some really good things going on here, but nothing that can save this movie. Ben Affleck as Batman is right on the money. So is Jeremy Iron's Alfred. But they're working from a script that couldn't save a cat from a tree. So is Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman. She looks the part and the set-up to her stand-alone movie is pretty obvious, but the script is just such a mess! There's no explanation for most of the things our heroes do. There's no real MacGuffin here. It's as if a future Justice league movie is the carrot and this movie is just the dumb donkey chasing after it. To me, it's obvious that Zack Snyder doesn't know what to do with Superman. Look, I've been a Superman collector for over 36 years now. Trust me, I love the character. I had no love for him in this movie whatsoever. I don't understand his motivation in this film. I also think that the reason he's going after Batman (as Clark as well as Superman) makes him a big hypocrite. Add to that, that most of the time when he's saving people, he does it with an expression on his face that is similar to my daughter's when I tell her to clean her room. No, I didn't like Superman in this movie! I did love the Loïs and Clark stuff. And of course the special effects are of the charts. But I needed so much more. This movie tries to do way too much and most of it fails miserably. This is a placeholder movie.... The real icing is the Justice League movie coming in 2 years. But I don't know if I still want that now.
*************EDIT AFTER SECOND VIEWING**************************
Saw it for the second time today. I liked it more this time. There isn't more coherence, it's just that I understand it a bit better now. I clearly LOVE the Batman and Wonder Woman stuff even more this time around. It's still too serious for me and I still don't like Lex Luthor and the way he's portrayed here. But all in all, I want to give DC the benefit of the doubt here. I've changed my vote from 6 to 7/10.