Good Movie with Some Things Off

Rating: 7/10 (26 March 2016)

WARNING: This review contains SPOILERS. If you don't want to know the stuff occurring in the movie in advance, or the movie ruined for you, skip this review now.
"Batman Vs. Superman" is a good action movie. With respect to the story, the story's one of two things where the movie shined on the most... the second being the action scenes, of course.
It's a revamp of Batman's story, since they retold his origin that differs from that of "Batman Begins". After that, they then showed that Bruce Wayne was in Metropolis during the events of "Man of Steel", and deaths and destruction under Superman's watch that made Bruce's blood boiled for up to eighteen months, leading up to the confrontation between Batman and Superman.
As for Superman, "Batman Vs. Superman" is a sort of "Man of Steel 2", since it continues from where Superman/Clark Kent left off. Being a super-powered superhero, and some events here and there in the world, people question if Superman should continue being a vigilante, and some recent deaths by bullets in Africa were his fault. It's made worse when Lex Luther showed interest in portraying him as a "devil" to the public, and a fellow senator. He'd even gone as far as discovering Kryptonite, intending to use it on Superman.
The movie is also a sort of prequel to "Justice League", as the title "Dawn of Justice" implies. It introduces us to the other members of the group, starting with Wonder Woman who had the most, and most important, presence throughout the film. Bruce Wayne managed to steal, and decrypt, files from Lex Corp, revealing details of the other heroes like Flash, Cyborg, and Aquaman. Bruce's/Batman's goal is to reach out to these other members, and create new means of delivering "justice", especially with the scrutiny both he and Superman faced by the public.
And, of course, the action scenes, and the dark moments like Lex framing Superman by blowing up his Capitol Hill hearing, were other examples of what kept viewers glued to their seats.
But, that doesn't mean that the movie's perfect.
Firstly, Lex Luther, or "Alexander", doesn't sound like what you expect Lex, both comics and TV, to sound like. He sounded like a troubled teenager taking over a company at age nineteen, and he has hair... till he was thrown to jail. How he twists things around in his favor, and plants the bomb in Capitol Hill, the actor should have been reserved as the Joker for a new Batman movie... since he was a lot like Heath Ledger's Joker in "The Dark Knight".
Another thing they did wrong was introducing Doomsday way too early, and a lot of us who'd seen the newer trailers had that same sentiment. In the comics, and the animated movie after them, Doomsday showed up when the Justice League was already in existence. In this film, that hadn't happened yet. This kills off potential, and epic, Superman trilogy, or the chance of seeing Superman's black-and-white uniform. It's good to have "Justice League", but I'd also like Batman and Superman to have their separate movies showing more of the said characters at the same time. With Marvel, we have "The Avengers", but we also have "Iron Man" and "Captain America", both of which show more of the said characters and their respective worlds and enemies. (Did I mention that Batman got revamped from the originals?)
And finally, the movie's more like "Lex Luther Vs. Superman" more than "Batman Vs. Superman". The movie focuses more on Lex defaming Superman to engineering Doomsday to kill him off. For some reason, probably to buy time to finish engineering Doomsday, or as a payback for Batman stealing his Kryptonite, he talked Superman into killing off Batman, in exchange for his mother's freedom. Batman fighting Superman, although cool that Batman armed himself with the Kryptonite he stole, and the armor suit, only occurred this one night... excluding the prophetic dream Bruce Wayne had while decrypting Lex Corp's files.
To conclude, the movie's story, although with some details off, from Lex to Doomsdays, was great as a Justice League origin film, along with the action and dark scenes here and there. The acting and soundtracks were great too. Hence, if you want a superhero movie, this is one of my personal recommendations.