Disappointing but ultimately expected

Rating: 5/10 (26 March 2016)

Almost everyone had at least some expectations towards Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, even those like me who were skeptical wanted it to be really good so that marvel would finally get shaken a bit and stop falling into the same routines.
But unfortunately the movie failed to deliver in a big way, but the disappointing thing is that while watching it i realized how much potential was in it.
The Movie has fantastic scenes(batman's warehouse fight for example shown in one of the trailers was fantastic) and a lot of great ideas (like the idea of "should there be a superman", or how there are repercussions for every action that these superheroes take)
the problem comes when these scenes should work together to form a cohesive movie, and they really really don't, the movie tries to juggle so many things: setting up batman, making a sequel to man of steel, setting up 2 villains(and a hint of a 3rd one) AND setting up justice league. so it really crumbles under the pressure.
The pacing is really off, we spend so much time following pointless subplots that are really really forced to tie in together and stop the plot dead in its tracks, the movie drags because of it more often than not, so I'm sitting there in the theater watching what should be the most exciting thing ever: Batman and Superman in one movie fighting each other and bigger threats, but instead i have to sit through unnecessary dream sequences - that make no sense and are a really poor way of trying to explain some form of character motivations - and forced subplots for Lois Lane to investigate so she actually has something to do in the movie.
so you're being bored for 2 hours only to have every good part of the movie mashed together and condensed into the last 40 minutes. and it just doesn't feel earned, you don't really feel for any of the characters(except probably Affleck's batman) because they're really poorly set up and developed.
Afflecks's a great Batman and what little we see of Gal Gadot gives a lot of promise about her Wonderwoman, but unfortunately it's just not enough to save a sinking ship. Jessie Eisenberg's performance is pretty much flawless for what the director wanted, I'm just not sure if this is the type of Lex Luthor we should have, it never felt like he was even the slightest bit true to the Luthor of the comics, but i wont fault him for that he really got into the role.
The Batman and Superman fight is pretty good, but it feels like the movie just wants to get it over with by the time it arrives and just forces it to happen by an arbitrary plot device, and all the conflict there was vanishes in a matter of seconds after.
Doomsday as the main villain is pretty underwhelming with subpar CGI (it's not horrible it's jut not good enough for a $400 million movie) and all the flashy CGI effects during that fight just make your head and eyes hurt, his creation is really rushed and barely explained, he's really just there as a video game final boss for the heroes to defeat, when doomsday was a pretty interesting character in the comics, here hes just a random thoughtless CGI monster.
All in all if WB took the time to set up characters prior (especially batman and superman with one more movie for each) this could've been a fantastic movie, all the ingredients are there, but with so much pressure and studio influence on it it just crumbles which is disappointing, but on the bright side batman and wonderwoman's solo films are really promising, unless they cram too many things in those too.