CaptKolasonic’s review published on Letterboxd:
My first thought after leaving the cinema:
"What a great movie!!!!"
Yes, "BATMAN v SUPERMAN" is a great movie! It's a movie about the political consequences of having a Superman, the moral dilemma of having a caped vigilante who does justice his own way, and it's a movie about a man who lost a building and employees in a 9/11-reminding-scenario and decides to take this superior-alien-"savior"-bullshit to an end.
"BATMAN v SUPERMAN" isn't the annual lightweight superhero-extravaganza most of the audience expected, like "THE AVENGERS" for example. Ben Affleck as Bruce Wayne/Batman is awesome. It's the first Batman-appearance where I really enjoyed the Bruce-Wayne-part!
But is "BATMAN v SUPERMAN" a Batman-movie? No!
Is "BATMAN v SUPERMAN" a "MAN OF STEEL 2"? Hell, no!!!
In my opinion "BATMAN v SUPERMAN" has to be treated like a graphic novel/paperback, a unique story with some alternative or even "what-if" story elements. It doesn't matter whose character has how much screen time in it, it's the story which matters. Jeremy Iron's appearance as "Alfred" is short but great, he's more an engineer than a butler and the opposite of Michael Caine's version. Lois Lane doesn't have so much screen time which fits perfectly. Clark Kent has some short appearances in the Daily Planet which doesn't matter too much, I think his colleagues and boss will recognize sooner or later that Superman and Clark Kent are the same person. And Gal Gadot's Diana Prince/Wonder Woman is perfectly placed in the movie! I needed some time with Jesse Eisenberg as a quirky Lex Luthor, but I was ok with him at least. I think Lex Luthor will become the bald, ice cold mastermind mogul, how we use to know him in the comics, through time (I mean sequels).
After 2,5 hours of great entertainment is there any hair in the soup to find?
Well, yeah...there is..!
The Kryptonite-thing isn't explained very well.(how I understood it's the crystallized air/atmosphere from Zod's spaceship, isn't it..?)
The Batmobile-chase-scene and the Batmobile itself look cool, but definitely suck balls against an awesome bad-ass "Tumbler-vs-cops"-race in "BATMAN BEGINS".
The final battle against the monster called "Doomsday" looks cool, but compairing it to the "The day Superman died"-comic-storyline it isn't that epic as it should be, because in the comic-version Superman and Doomsday are fighting against each other from coast to coast and leave a swath of destruction. In the movie they're fighting on locations around Metropolis.
After all, "BATMAN v SUPERMAN" was great entertainment and in my opinion the next level of a big-budget-superhero-flick!!