About 'Batman v Superman'...

A while ago, I was about to write a few choice criticisms about the movie...

Jeremy Irons, who was in the movie as Alfred, actually sums up one of my criticisms about the movie here:

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/05/29/batman-v-superman-jeremy-irons-criticism

The movie, in and of itself, was actually a rush and literal mish-mosh of several plot lines in one movie, which was disappointing to say the least.

Some people actually hit on it, but let me go over some of the issues I had with it.

First...  Lex Luthor.

The casting of Jesse Eisenberg, was, in my opinion, not a reasonable one for the movie.  Not so much for his looks, but the acting or what he was directed to act for Lex Luthor in the movie.

Over all, Gene Hackman and Kevin Spacey's version of Lex Luthor was much more adequate for the person, even in the really bad Superman II and IV movies for Gene Hackman.

The Eisenberg version seemed more like he was trying to mix a little of The Joker with Lex Luthor.  While his Lex Luthor was condescending genius, sort of way, his sociopath take on him read a bit too much like the Joker.

Even the Animated version of Superman, voice acted by Clancy Brown and the Justice League, the Lex Luthor in that series was much more composed, even near the end of that series where he is shown to be less than sane.

Next...  Plot points...

Suffice it to say, the original intent of Batman versus Superman is a plot point from one comic, "The Dark Knight Returns" by Frank Miller...  Where an old Bruce Wayne becomes Batman once again, to the point he has to face off against Superman...  The movie also decided to throw a few too many other things to it to 'make it exciting'.

One of those plot points is 'Injustice - Gods among men'.  A scene plays out where Superman is seen as an Overlord, dispensing Justice in a nightmare that Batman has.  This is literally from not only "Injustice" but also one of the Justice League stories, where the Justice League becomes Justice Lords...

Another plot point shoved into our face is the formation of the Justice League, in this case, the joining of forces with Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman against a powerful foe.

Another plot point is the introduction of Doomsday and the death of Superman...  Again, this is another plot point from one of the more significant events in the Superman storyline around the early 2000s.

Batman's Origin being another plot point sort of shoved in there, and tying the name of Martha Wayne to Martha Kent was a bit of a reach.

A reference to Crisis of the Infinite Earths is also included in there, where you see a brief showing of the Flash trying to tell Batman something, which made Batman almost dismiss it as being a hallucination.

Basically, too many different plot points crammed into one movie to make it exciting, but even in how it was structured, it was almost nonsensical to me, on some of the jumps in logic made on certain information.

Overall, the movie was rushed and tried too many things at once.  The logic behind it all could only be masked by the action, but I think the action itself can't make the movie seem confusing and rather not as good as "Man of Steel".