Okay so strap in because this will be a bit of a longer semi spoiler free (might be some minor spoilers but I won't spoil the ending) review.
So Batman Versus Superman starts out with the ending battle of Man Of Steel and the destruction that followed. The movie starts with us seeing the battle through the eyes of Bruce Wayne as he rushes to save people from the Wayne Enterprises building. This event sends Wayne basically into a rage and causes him to wage a one man war on Superman. So this is the starting premise of the film and where I'll leave off in case some of you reading haven't seen it yet. The thing that makes me sad about this film is that there were a lot of things I loved and then a lot of things I hated. In essence the film is bad and good all at the same time and that's what makes the film a huge travesty. To avoid many spoilers i'll start by giving what I loved about the film and then i'll end it with what I hated and didn't like.
The Good: So the good about this film starts off with "most" of the cast. Ben Affleck is probably the best Batman and I actually love him more than Christian Bale. Jeremy Irons makes a fantastic Alfred who is kind of arrogant and a bit jerkish but in a very likeable way. Gal Gadot is a very and I mean very sexy Wonder Woman but we'll talk more about her later (I liked her but stuff about her I hated). The feel of this movie is great and I mean it feels dark and gritty and nasty the way Batman should. This movie very much revolves around Batman not Superman and it shows. The movie's executive producer is Christopher Nolan (the man behind the Dark Knight trilogy) so naturally he kept his Dark Knight feel to the film. The movie looks and sounds beautiful and it has a lot of great detective work. In this film Batman isn't just an Rambo in a suit I mean he actually does investigative work in this film which I really loved. Sadly and we'll talk about this later, his investigations really lead nowhere. The film does a great job at keeping you interested but sadly that's where the good ends.
The Bad: So the second worst part of this film has to go to Jesse Eisenberg. Honestly I think he should win an award for being the most annoying character in a film ever. What makes this performance so bad is that he's really not playing Lex Luthor he's actually playing a 17-18 year old kid with billions of dollars and nobody to tell him no. He's essentially Donald Trump on a power high. What really makes him bad though is that at times I didn't know if he was playing Lex Luthor or a version of the Joker simply with certain mannerisms and his affinity for dumb "unfunny" jokes that only he gets. The biggest problem this movie has though is that it tries to do way to much stuff in a very small time frame. For example so many story lines are introduced but never really seen through. Remember how I said there was stuff about Wonder Woman I hated? This is one of those things. In the film Wonder Woman really has no purpose other than to be sexy. She never gets a backstory or any real screen time for us to get to know her. She really also has no lines and is like I said simply there to look good. In the film Batman finds a picture of Wonder Woman dating back to 1918 and this was a moment where the plot really thickened but it ended there. We don't find out why she was there in 1918 or why she's over a hundred years old. The movie introduces tons of questions about Wonder Woman but never answers them. More and more characters get introduced into this film but are never explored. Aquaman appears, The flash (i'm assuming he's the Flash) appears, and a character I believe to be Martian Manhunter appears but their stories are not delved into. We get glimpses of them but we never really get to see how they play out. The biggest question that never gets answered is the Joker question. So in one scene Bruce Wayne ends up looking at a piece of Robin's armor with the words "Jokes On You Batman HAHAHAHAHA" written all over it. It's implied that Joker murdered Robin but we never ever ever ever see that. We don't get any answers as to what happened or why it happened or why Robin is even in this film. This part makes no sense at all since this is Ben Affleck's first Batman movie and Jared Leto's Joker won't appear in full until Suicide Squad. I'm hoping maybe Suicide Squad will answer this question.
After about 2 hours and 10 minutes (this film is 2 hours and 45 minutes) of talking and or dodging any sort of answers, the fight between Batman and Superman begins. This fight literally lasts about 10 minutes and then Batman and Superman are best friends. This was the most disappointing part of the film because not only is the fight in the title of the film but we waited so long to see the fight. The fight never lives up to the hype built in the film nor does it make up for the waiting 2 hours for it to happen. The worst part however isn't actually this at all, the worst part is actually the ending of the film. So i'm guessing because Luthor wasn't s good enough villain they decided to add in Doomsday. However what makes him so bad (despite being a poorly CGI character) is that he has no purpose being there whatsoever. His story from the comics does not match up at all to this film. In fact it's almost as if Zach Snyder just said "screw the comics we're gonna do it anyway and we'll do it my way". The worst part about Doomsday is that he isn't even done in a way that makes him terrifying. He's basically a "okay we need a big gigantic villain to fight" character. The backstory for Doomsday in this film is so against the comic but not even in a good way. You could've done a different backstory for Doomsday that could've been good but this film does one that is just so cheesy.
Finally after all of this the film ends, now to avoid spoilers I won't give away the ending but it's also a poor choice and one of the worst things about this film. In essence Zach Snyder just tried to fit way to many story lines into this movie. He also tried to make the film deeper than it needed to be by asking philosophical questions. During the film it tries to force you to question God and man and religion and government but it just seems forced. These questions during the film don't force me to think they just force me to look at my watch and wonder when it will end. Multiple times during these "philosophical moments" I was wondering when the film would end and when we would get to the point. The film also gets really confusing at times with certain "story lines" that turn out to be dreams and this was a really annoying part of the film. Something good would happen and you would find out it was just a dream. All in all I think the biggest problem with this film is that it tries to do way to much at once and it does it badly. So many questions are unanswered and so many backstories are left untouched.
MY SCORE: 4/10