I used to ignore dceu movies before 2019 (because of the critics).

After watching joker (2019) I decided to go back and watch all DCEU Movies.

First Man of Steel it was good (GOAT superman origin movie).

Then I watched this version of BVS instantly fell in love with Zack Snyder and his movies. This is the greatest Dceu movie for me. Better than theatrical release this is the movie that should've been released in the theatre what was WB thinking.

I could go on and on about the symbolism, political commentary, strong themes and amazing character work embedded throughout this movie.

I could also go on and on about how WB, critics and some D. C. Fans have since the TC's release in 2015 unfairly misrepresented, misinterpreted and misunderstood the film to drag it down. This, the Ultimate, most complete Edition (especially the new Remaster with some IMAX scenes restored) is rather more immune to that bad-faith criticism as it spends more time going in-depth to each plot point as well as adding and explaining characters and decisions which simply did not make sense in the Theatrical Cut.

Is the movie perfect now? Of course not. But is it an amazing, extremely well-written, excellently shot and scored and brilliantly performed breath of fresh air amongst the hordes of by-the-numbers comic book movies? In my opinion that's not a question at all. Yes yes yes yes yes.

Thank God this is up for rating. Avoid the theatrical cut. This is the director's intent. I still remember being in the theaters waiting for a World's Finest movie. I got something so much more. I'd have to wait for this edition however to come out on blu-ray but it changed all the issues I had with the theater cut experience. The reason we got the Snyder cut movement was because of this. We knew the studio tampered with an epic vision. If you want the true Ultimate experience watch this back to back with Man of Steel and Zack Snyder's Justice League.