Batman v Superman: No Justice

I have to say, after viewing the theatrical cut only twice (I find no reason to watch the ultimate cut) this is quite an improvement!. Right off the bat, I found a much improved film with vibrant colors, faster pacing that gets right down to the nitty gritty and a much more coherent plot. Sure, there are still issues and flaws to be had, but imo most of those are embedded in the script and can't be fixed with even the most drastic of edits. Most of Jesses Eisenburgs awkwardly/quirky moments are thankfully gone (though I will admit he is having the most fun in the whole thing), using the ultimate edition as the source was wise as it does take care of some gaping plot holes, and we finally have a movie that lives up to the title, Batman v Superman, not "shoe horned team gathering/monster movie". Could there have been anything else worth taking care of here? Maybe, and aside from slightly varying PQ time to time, I can't help but easily recommend this edit to those who really didn't like what we got last year.

As a huge BvS fan who saw the movie in the theater multiple times, and watches the extended edition obsessively at home, I often find myself trying to edit the movie in my mind as I watch it. 80% a masterpiece, there are unfortunately glaring flaws. With great respect to Zack Snyder, in a certain way, this is the movie I wish I experienced for the first time.

I wasn't a big fan of Batman v Superman. I thought the story had some big issues, and it the movie itself felt overly long. I was excited when I learned of this edit and hoped it could do the movie some justice...and it did! There are still a few overall plot issues, but for the most part this edit does a decent job of refocusing the movie where it needed to be, which is on Batman and Superman. As much as I liked Wonder Woman in the original version, I didn't miss her appearance here and I highly enjoyed the re-worked third act. Doomsday was terrible in the original version, so I was glad to see him removed in this version. While I'm not big on how the fight between Batman and Superman resolves itself, I felt it worked much better in this version over the original, and the ending seemed fitting. I was pretty impressed with this edit and glad I got to watch it!

Batman v Superman is a complex, overly angry and edgy beast, but much like DC's recent ''Rebirth'' iniative in the comic books, sometimes hope is all you need to tame it. The original film has very little of that in it, from the themes, character motivations, the lousy editing, to the very colour grading, and all in the name of needless franchise-building which, frankly after seeing the original, you're left in a quandry over whether or not the rest of the DCU is worth any investment.

Thankfully here, there is hope. The edits are seemless, the grading is bright, and there is no clutter. The main event is the centerpiece of the movie as the title demanded, and the ending is more in-line with how Clark and even Bruce ought to be.

We did not come here for the Justice, but with this edit, you can stay for the dawn.

I might have found my new favorite version of BvS.

So, I actually liked 'Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice' (or at least the Ultimate Edition), but it is true that it has some (major) flaws. The pacing is indeed kinda off at times, which is something this edit improves on a lot. It simply didn't need to be a 3-hour-long movie.
I think the decision to cut all the Doomsday and Wonder Woman stuff improved the movie a lot -- it helped it stay much more focused tonally, in my opinion. Yes, both the Theatrical Cult and Ultimate Edition of 'Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice' are pretty dark and serious throughout -- which is something this edit doesn't change, and something I really liked about 'No Justice' --, but it always bothered me how Snyder's original film went from an almost a political thriller in the first half to being an action movie with a huge monster on the second. By cutting the Doomsday part of the film, 'No Justice' managed to make the movie stay somewhat grounded in reality (or as much as it could have been).
The only problems I had where with some of the transitions between scenes, which were mostly unnoticeable, apart from a few where the music of the two scenes clashed, in a way. The biggest flaw I can find in this edit is just that the Batman warehouse scene wasn't meant to be the final action scene of the movie, so the pacing in this edit dwindles just a bit, but after that scene it picks up again for the last five minutes of the film.

Honestly, thank you for this fan edit Reese. It gave me the experience I originally wanted from Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice when it first came out in theaters exactly one year ago today.