It is surprisingly really good movie.

Rating: 9/10 (25 March 2016)

I went to the movie with the last memory of rottentomatoes.com consensus of 32% rotten. That was certainly nerve-racking. Most of us wanted the movie to be epic and huge success. The expectations were huge and I was afraid for the movie since in general I found rotten tomatoes consensus acceptable. But after watching Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice, rotten tomatoes could never so wrong and fans can chill and enjoy the movie. I am not sure why it received so much criticism but before going to that let me grind out why this movie is so big. Batman, Wonder woman and Snyder. I know later would come as surprise to many including myself. But his action sequences through the movie were brilliant and they were highlight of the movie. Batman vs. Superman action and later doomsday battle were epic. The second half went like rocket. I thought after trailer doomsday would spoil the movie. It did exactly opposite of that. Even the flashback scenes of Wayne parents which were criticized during trailer had a place in the story. More interestingly the movie had a proper script. It was not all action. The script played some good purpose in the end. I didn't know why there were lots of hype of movie not being funny like marvel. I don't know if DC comics were funny but I loved the grim tone in the movie. After all the entire mood and theme were suppose to be grim. Though wonder woman brought some life at her scenes. But grim is what I expected and grim is what I got. It went very well with overall theme. So good things in the movie were batman, wonder woman, direction and script. So what went so wrong that critics are crying doomsday for DC movies? I believe somewhere bad publicity due to trailers could share the major blame for it. And I actually could understand it since trailer did lot of wrong to the movie. Since entire plot has paradigm shift from the trailer we witness. Superman as a character has lost the fun and the movie couldn't rejuvenate him. Though Lex Luthor played by Jesse Eisenberg is disappointment. I don't think script was bad to him. It was good but he over acted as young enthusiastic villain. The script gave him big role to play maybe as important as batman / superman and he couldn't do justice to it. It was big miss. In terms of Box office, I don't think fans need to worry about it. At least in India, fans were appreciative of movie and went crazy with every action sequence and popular line. The movie ended with the claps. The movie would get a solid word of mouth and it would be great game to watch whether it would be enough to overcome the negative criticism it received. Normally pen's are mightier than sword but it time around word of mouth need to do that job. I am worried for my next action hero movie now. I am long being fan of marvel movies and the captain America: the civil war is next in the list. But it had great shoes to fill and I don't think any action movie at least in marvel series can match the level of emotion of action I have just witnessed. Rating: 9/10 PS: People are discussion lot regarding Batman's violation of his own code of not killing people. But for me it was always philosophical. You can't actually believe that Batman wouldn't be killing people when he was keeping city safe? When he goes all around destroying and fighting thugs? For me it was having option to kill but choosing not to kill is all about Batman's code. I though Batman begins make this theme quite clear.