Nimhue

My (digital) painting of Sebastian Stan. 

I really enjoyed the movie and I don’t understand why the reviews are so bad.

Visually, the movie is absolutely great. It’s a cinematic beauty. It’s faithful to the comics - as much as it could be - and the actors did a very good job. Affleck’s Batman is darker. Henry Cavill is.. Superman - I can’t be objective, I love both Superman and Cavill, although.. the film may be about the idea of Superman, but there is almost nothing regarding who Superman is as a human and/or a god from another world. Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor is a quirky/awkward/psychotic delight, even though it'not the Lex Luthor we know. I love Gal Gadot’s parts as Wonder Woman, though her screen time was brief. But amid the visual treats is an utter mess of thinly sketched characters and haphazard plotting.. and I don’t know if they wanted the movie to be a sequel to Man of Steel or just to introduce us to the future DCCU. A lot of characters and not a really good bonding storyline between them. This could easily have been a Superman stand-alone movie. It feels like Batman and the Future Justice League are interfering with the story, but the action of the movie is good and gets better as they go along. I really enjoyed watching this movie, this bridge between our reality and what will be DCCU. Can’t wait for the rest of them.

Yes, it could have been better, but in the end I loved it. And it’s still a step up from “Man of Steel”, so we’ve got this working for us.