The film takes us back to the fight of General Zod (Michael Shannon) and Superman (Henry Cavill) causing citywide damages and injuring a lot of innocent people. The event destroyed the building that Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) owned that eventually killed a lot of the people that worked for him. This stirred Batman's ire against Superman. Clark Kent notices the doings of Batman as a rogue vigilante and decided that he is a threat to humanity as well.
Their mutual antagonism is much further aggravated by Lex Luthor 's (Jesse Eisenberg) manipulation of events that eventually leads to their confrontation.
This film is a very important film particularly for the comic fans and it is a daring take on what the insiders call the DC Extended Universe where comic characters find themselves united in one material. It is important because it sets the stage for Justice League (the movie) that brings together major characters in the DC comic franchise. I like this film for its bravery, one for defying critics about their choice of actors, and then the final interpretation of the Wonder Woman character starting from its costume to its character. It clearly veered away from the popular idea of how Wonder Woman should look like and then mostly for its decision to take some inspiration from the comic arc 'Death of Superman', whose outcome clearly shocked the movie public.
.Because this film is tasked to tell its story and to set up Justice League it became a lengthy two and a half hour running time. I mostly didn't notice the time for I thought the scenes were essential except that some scenes could have been shorter. For the most part it presents vignettes of reasons how people hate people, like how Batman came to hate Superman and vice versa, how the people of Metropolis came to hate Superman, but it failed to mention an important source of hate that really is the stem from which this story came from and it is the hate of Lex Luthor with Superman. We are clearly caught in the middle of Lex's and Superman's relationship, but it does not benefit the non fanatics to be unaware of where Lex's anger is coming from.
