Clunky and Confusing, Poorly Written, but Kind of Fun

Rating: 7/10 (5 April 2016)

Ultimately, this is a movie I recommend to people who enjoy superheroes and action flicks, but aren't too hung up on story. The script for this movie was pretty bad, and so was the directing; clearly, the people in charge of this movie didn't know their subjects very well. While a Batman willing to kill is quite refreshing, and Ben Affleck actually was quite enjoyable as Bruce (seriously, he seemed to be doing his best, most of the Bat's flaws in this movie came from writing), there were multiple times in the film that Batman showed fear or weakness in a manner that he simply never would have. Lex Luthor was another example, being shown as a pretty shallow and stereotypical insane bad guy. Admittedly, when he was being portrayed as reasonably sane and calculating, Jesse Eisenberg was a rather fun Luthor. Amy Adams was the most wishy washy Lois Lane I've ever seen. Henry Cavill was okay, I suppose; I don't know Superman that well, he seemed pretty on-base to me. Gal Gadot was incredible as Wonder Woman and I hope to see a lot more of her in future films. This is a movie I will certainly watch again, but the casting was largely off- base and the whole movie flip flopped between interesting, boring, and plain confusing. I mean, they interrupted a major fight scene to drag out a slow and pointless romance scene between Clark and Lois that did quite a good job of killing the action buzz the viewers were finally developing.