Great spectacle- good performances. but the story

Rating: 6/10 (10 April 2016)

It was impossible for me, to not eagerly await this movie. Well - I like Superman; yet would like to see a "great" adaptation. But I love Batman - and we had already a couple of good "Bats" (Tim Burton's Batman - and "Batman begins") - though there was room for improvement.
After I seen now this flick once - I went again to the movies - and to my surprise, I actually enjoyed it more than the first time.
First to the great points: The mood of the movie is about right. It is dark, and the atmosphere is changing between the main characters. Heroic and epic on Supermans side - dark and almost sociopath on Batmans side. Wonderwoman is a real highlight! Especially the fighting scene is just a the high point of any feminist movement - she is not the one, who need to be saved - but she is also clearly feminine. Alfred is well presented by Jeremy Irons, he brings the "mothers arguments" to Bruce Wayne, which is pretty funny - but he is also totally in their enterprise - which is a bit better than the ever wining Michael Caine. Jesse Eisenberg was a bit of surprise. I really hated him, when I have seen the movie first, but was surprised, that I actually was more investing in his character, when I seen it the second time. Well... maybe the "ding, ding, ding, ding" might become the new Darth Vader "Noooooooooo"...
The shots were also made beautiful and most of the CGI and special effects were done beautifully.
So why haven't I rated it better? Because of following points:
1) Nobody wants to see Bruce Wayne's parents die again. Ever! Ever! The movie is long enough... i simply cannot understand, that they again showed a sequence of Batman's tragic childhood experience. Further "the bat dream" is also pretty useless.
2) Talking about dreams - there are too many of them in the movie. And some of them don't even make remotely sense (think about the Flash sequence).
3) Product placement: it has to be said, it should be forbidden to make obvious product placements in good movies. OK - let's think about it - a multimillionaire (probably billionaire) is leaving his helicopter and stepping into a... Jeep Renegade??? Really? With flashing lights - but without any markings (e.g. Security etc)? Why should he has this type of car?
4) Maybe this should be on number one: the overall story. Is. No. Good. Really. It seems, that the main story is as old as "stories themselves". It doesn't really imply any surprises. But for what it is, it is unnecessary complicated, confusing, and intertwined. It is obvious, that they wanted to set the stage for the next movie, but just screwed it really up!
5) Batmans tech Why is BvS disregarding the successful Batman trilogy? It was well established, that Batman got its tech from the military branch of Wayne Tech. And it made sense. Now you have a "superbullet proof" bat mobile - and a crazy bat plane - made with a couple of wrenches of Alfred... yeah right.
6) The Bruce training montage So Batman is obviously keeping himself fit. But when he decides to fight against Superman, he is doing some extra pull-ups (with a laughable big steel ball), pulling a truck tire and hammers on it. Yeah right... make sense, to do some extra workout, against an individual, who can fly and who pulls an icebreaker by himself...
7) Physics and realism Can we come to a point, where movies at least try to stay with physics? Heavy wood boxes are flying through the air as they were made from balsa wood - but also are not breaking. Superman seems to have trouble to lift Batman (with his armored suit), but then throws him through several walls. The armored suit itself...pathetic. And yeah - Supermans application of his powers, is also made in fantasy land. Also Superman seems to have the ability to appear instantly anywhere he wants... I thought that this is not one of his powers (even if he would fly extremely fast, he would need at least several seconds or even minutes to come to a remote place).
8) Armoured suit If we are already at the armored suit - if the story invest into it, why isn't it at least partly explained? Yeah - the voice modulation is mentioned... but if the suit should take a beating, how it was shown in the film, and keep Bruce Wayne alive, it should have been at least a bit explained.
9) Aquaman and the Flash No explanation needed :(
10) Many more stupid points... For example, that it is said, that Batman works with the Police, but there is no other evidence than the statement of Clark Kent.