Good movie, not great...just good

Rating: 7/10 (18 June 2017)

I would hesitate to say this movie was anything better than just 'good'. It's very far from great, but I would recommend seeing it at least once, especially if you enjoy comic book movies.
The acting and environments were top shelf through the movie, and the cinematography was pretty good for most of the film.
It started out a little shaky as it was presented needlessly as a flashback and the writing was pretty lame throughout, as it pertains to dialogue and many of the plot points.
The first third of the movie was fairly enjoyable and well paced and would have led to a much better movie had it continued the same way, but at some point it went from being about a hero with a sidekick to a team movie. The team was completely pointless and contributed nothing to the story.
From that point on it tromped along okay, kind of straddling the line of 'not bad' and 'why would they do that?'. It was riddled with some pretty sidetracked feeling events, with decent action and effects, redundant interactions between the characters and some really forced feeling evil doers.
By the end of the movie I couldn't help thinking that something plot related hadn't happened in a long time, and there was seemingly no endpoint in sight. Until a surprise, way over the top CG fight that was instigated alright, but proceeded poorly, and had a pretty badly written pause and then a final culmination that seemed like a special effects student was told to make some really gaudy eyesore effects for the ending of a random B-movie.
Overall it wasn't nearly as terrible as Suicide Squad, and not nearly as good as Man of Steel, but it did leave me feeling like it was another DC movie that missed the mark. I give it a solid 7/10, I'd probably watch it again, but I'd never pay to see it again.