A Batman bin Suparman documentary would've been better instead

Rating: 4/10 (26 March 2016)

Before the critics even started to shred this movie apart there were very good initial reaction from people who saw early screenings. "Good movie...", "5 times better than Man of Steel", "Best Superhero movie of all time", "Poetry" they said... fair enough I assumed, perhaps my early skepticism was wrong and it truly managed to escape all the traps that come with such huge undertakings.
BvS repeats, for what seems like the millionth time, the very same mistake that so many other not-so-good superhero flicks already have proved to be a bad idea it makes you wonder if the studio executive just can't take a hint or blatantly don't care while they can make a quick buck.
Mess sounds about damn right. It borrows from so many story-lines, mixes everything through the gutter, is overburdened with a ton of characters it probably sets new record in that regard. It's like Batman & Robin, Spider-Man 3 and X-men Last Stand combined.
But it's not all bad. On to the good: The movie is actually well acted - I honestly felt everybody did a good job. Some characters were bad but none of it was the actors fault. In particular Luthor, Superman, Clark Kent were, in order, completely out of place, a one track record and desperately lacking presence. The action is awesome and intense. Batman gets the most out of it, comes off as the complete bad-ass when he is kicking ass. CGI is pretty good. And that's about it.
Everything else is lacking. The story is convoluted. Plenty of scenes just plainly thrown in for no rhyme or reason, just don't make a god-damn sense. The script jumps randomly around like a madman in a padded cell. Even Zack Snyders trademark of strong visuals fails. These artsy scenes are weird, drawn out and unintentionally funny it literally invited people in the cinema to give their "clever" remarks to the rest of the viewers or laugh. It created a awkward and weird atmosphere. And that it so stubbornly insist on being so dead-serious and free of any self-awareness all the time surely didn't do it any favor, it almost goes full circle that it seems almost like a parody.
The Justice League deserves way better. Snyder proved with Watchmen that he can manage a mammoth project. Sadly not this time. It just tries to bite way, way more than it actually can chew. It would've helped if most of the characters were already established with their own franchise movies.
Don't bother with BvS, it truly is one heck of a mess.