Disappointing at best

Rating: 4/10 (7 August 2016)

I was REALLY looking forward to this film despite the trend of awful movies DC keeps pushing out into theaters. I really thought they may redeem themselves with this film but that is far from the case.
The story is terrible. Walking out of the theater I am left pondering a million different ways the story could have gone. Millions of questions like "why didn't they just do this..." or "why did they have to bother doing that....?" It was a VERY weak story that wasn't all that interesting.
But what really REALLY killed the movie for me personally was how choppy the whole thing felt. There were scenes that honestly felt like the editing team was just like "lets just put this scene right here cause its already been filmed... so yeah... why not." The fights were poorly shot and didn't really pull me in. I NEVER look at the time when watching a movie, but this film had me checking my watch every 15 minutes wondering how much longer it was going to go. The continuity from scene to scene was terrible, moments in the film that one would think should matter were underplayed, and moments in the film that had no build up were then tried to be made important with slow motion or a certain score that just didn't fit. Some of the scripting was just so beyond horrible that sitting in that movie theater seat was tormenting.
Seriously, I was so angry walking out of that theater! I really wanted this movie to be amazing and it was easily one of the worst films I'd seen in a long time. (maybe my expectations were too high...)
Some good notes: the actors tried their best, or at least I want to pretend that they did. Some of the jokes were actually funny even though they were interjected at the most random of moments (not all the time of course). The jokes helped alleviate some of the building depression that I was feeling from how awful a movie this was. And the first 30 minutes of back story to the villains were interesting. So I'll give it 4 out of 10 on those points and I'm being generous.
Needless to say, I don't recommend this movie. I don't recommend watching it at full price in theaters. And I honestly think DC needs to get their act together or just stick to comic books.